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."
Lee Harvey Oswald works in Dallas. He knows the President's motorcade route will pass by the building in which he works.
Before John Wilkes Booth plans an assassination, he plans to kidnap the President and "carry him off" to Richmond, Virginia..
Samuel Clemens, writing as Mark Twain, creates a character called Huckleberry Finn. Huck is based on a real person called Tom Blankenship.
In 1934, Charles Howard hires Tom Smith as a trainer to help him break into horse racing; Tom tells him to buy Seabiscuit.
Thomas builds Monticello on his family's land in Virginia.
Hexavalent chromium (Chromium VI), a cancer-causing chemical used by Pacific Gas & Electric Company in Hinkley, poisoned the groundwater of the co...
CIA agent, Tony Mendez, creates a plan and leads a rescue mission for six U.S. diplomats in Tehran.
Even as he lies wounded, the president tries to protect his assassin.
Evidence is too much for both Loeb and Leopold who both confess to the crime.
Learn about Robert E. Lee and the famous military leaders for the Confederate States of America.
Learn about Ulysses S. Grant and the other famous Union military leaders.
Schenck is charged and found guilty of conspiring to cause disobedience in the military.
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