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."
Kamehameha I - also known as Kamehameha the Great -went on to have a very successful reign before he died in 1819.
Kate Adams Keller, twenty years younger than her husband, was his second wife. She was a tall woman, with blue eyes, and had two daughters (Hele...
Apollo 13 Command Module Pilot Thomas K. Mattingly never made the Apollo 13 Mission because he was exposed to German Measles. That actually turned out...
Not a trained radar analyst, Kermit Tyler, was nevertheless on duty during December 7, 1941 bombing at Pearl Harbor. Does he deserve blame for not re...
This image—part of the U.S. military art gallery maintained at the U.S. Army Center of Military History—depicts American soldiers, during 1950, at...
In 1922James Dole- a pineapple grower and operator of a company he started in Hawaii (where he also lived) - bought the entire island of Lanai for $1....
Illustrating and amplifying the concept of self-rule from "Land of Hope," by Wilfred M. McClay.
W.A. Rogers, an artist whose illustrations depict scenes from the American West, created several drawings of cowboys in action.
On the evening of March 31, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson requested broadcast time. No one expected what he had to say.
Walt Whitman published the first edition of "Leaves of Grass" when he was 36 years old.
The youngest of three boys, Lee Harvey Oswald never knew his father and rarely saw his mother since she had to work long hours to support the family.
On the 7th of June, 1776, Richard Henry Lee proposed a resolution to assert the independence of Britain's "United Colonies" in America.
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