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."
Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts (1921) and deals with Polio until his death (1945).
Originally owned by Franklin & Armfield, dealers in slaves, this slave pen was located not far from the U.S. Capitol.
After Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white man, and Dr.
During the summer of 1964, university students from various places in the U.S. travel to Mississippi. Their plan is to help register African-Americans...
After Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman went missing - following their release from questioning at Sheriff Lawrence Raineys jail - hundreds of people look...
During the "high water mark of the Confederacy," General Armistead (whose friends called him "Lo") leads his Confederate brigade toward the center of ...
Worried that people would begin to doubt that Nazi atrocities had ever occurred, General Eisenhower ordered film makers and photographers to document ...
Continental Army General Horatio Gates was a war hero, but he was also ready to lead a mutiny after the Revolutionary War was over. It was called the ...
During America's Civil War, General Robert E. Lee was commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
General Sherman devastated Atlanta during his 1864 "March to the Sea.
General Stonewall Jackson is known as one of the Confederate Army''s most-brilliant strategists and as General Lee''s right-hand man.
Thomas Jefferson called George Mason (17251792), one of our truly great men.
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