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."
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention issued a report on the 13th of September, 1787 preparing for the first federal elections.
Image of George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation which was published in the Massachusetts Centinel on October 14, 1789. Click on the image for ...
Image of a map depicting the crashsite of UA 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.Click on the image for a better view.
This map depicts the flight paths of Enola Gay and Bockscar as they flew their atomic- bomb missions to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. Click o...
Image of Virginia Governor John Floyd's letter to John Hamilton. Click on the image for a better view.
Image of Virginia Governor John Floyd's letter to John Hamilton - page 2. Click on the image for a better view.
This telegram (from a squadron official at Wilbur Wright Field in Fairfield, Ohio) to the Adjutant General (in Washington, D.C.) is a notice of death ...
School children were also vulnerable to the second-wave flu outbreak. This telegram gives notice that a girl, named Lucy Antone, was getting sic...
People opposed to American women getting the vote created flyers like this one. It quotes a leading suffragist - then tries to destroy her argum...
Prior to his election as President of the United States, Herbert Hoover was the U.S. Food Administrator. This image depicts Hoover's food distri...
According to the U.S. Army Infantry home page: Fort Benning, Georgia is located just outside of Columbus, Georgia, a city with a population of 189,...
Frederick Douglass writes to then-Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, responding to the President's invitation that Douglass serve as the U.S. Ambass...
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