America - still a young country by world standards - began as an experiment in self-government. This collection includes stories of America's people as they follow a path of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Tuskegee Institute is a flight school that graduates African American pilots.
U-boats are submarines the Germans use to attack Allied supply ships.
Navajo code talkers, speaking their unwritten language, create an unbroken code which greatly helps the Marines during their battle for Iwo Jima.
Tice, a runaway slave, swims across the Ohio River which separates a free state and a slave state. When he disappears, it's like he is traveling on a...
An explanation of the Underground Railroad and how Harriet found it.
Although it seems the storm is over, by the early morning of November 1 the weakening system once again becomes a tropical storm.
Although he initially denies it, Albert Fish, the real-life model for Hannibal Lecter, admits to being a cannibal.
The medical report shows that some astronauts may have lived until the crew cabin hit the ocean.
An all-white male jury convicts and sentences Celia to hang for first-degree murder.
The verdict of history, regarding governmental deceptions and lies revealed in the Pentagon Papers, may reveal that because of their publication, the ...
The 8,000 victims of Galveston's Great Storm include orphans, nuns, patients and nurses. Bodies are hard to find, identify and bury.
It is July 2, 1776. To cut all ties with Britain, the 2nd Continental Congress approves the Declaration of Independence without dissent.
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