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."
In this page from Milton Wright's diary - on December 15, 1903 - we see a reference to the telegram he received from his son (Wilbur) reporting the ab...
This text image depicts the first page of a patent issued to Nicolaus Otto on the 28th of June, 1887. It awarded him the rights to a "Gas Motor ...
566 CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION PEARL HARBOR ATTACK[1095] TESTIMONY OF LT. COL KERMIT A. TYLER, AIR CORPS, ORLANDO, FLA., ARMY AIR FORCE BOARD(The wit...
This image depicts the letter which Sandie Pendleton wrote to his father after the death of General Stonewall Jackson. Click on the image for a bette...
Facsimilie of Susan B. Anthony's Petition to the Senate of the United States - For the Protection of Women. Click on the image for a better view.
In 1865, a group of women petitioned the United States Congress to do something about female suffrage. This image depicts the original document which...
Soon after Philip Johnston requested a Marine Corps enlistment, to allow him to work with Navajo Code Talkers, he received this Special-Delivery respo...
John Wilkes Booth accepted an invitation to perform the lead role in a benefit play - The Apostate, by Richard Lalor Sheil (an Irishman) - on Saturday...
Justice John Marshall Harlan was the only Supreme Court justice - in his day - to deny that the "separate but equal" treatment of African-Americans wa...
Speaking for a seven-person majority, with Justice John Marshall Harlan dissenting, Justice Henry Billings Brown delivered the opinion of the court in...
This facsimile of Poe's manusript - for the detective story The Murders in the Rue Morgue - is part of the Susan Jaffe Tane collection at Cornell Univ...
This poem is by S. Torre. No other words needed.
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