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."
Born Hugh Smithson, Lord Percy was the 2nd Duke of Northumberland and a Member of Parliament. His half-brother willed funds to America which the gover...
Abraham Lincoln's son William died on February 20th, 1862 of typhus.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (18561941) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was known as a strong supporter of civil rights.
Louis Zamperini attended a tent meeting featuring Dr.
Lt. Col. Joshua Chamberlain, from Maine, was an officer in the Union army during the Civil War.
Lt. General Holland Smith - pictured here, second-from-left and known to the men on Saipan as "Howlin' Mad" - was extremely proud of "my Marines.
Lt. Gwynne Pierson was one of four Tuskegee Airmen who participated in a major attack on a German vessel during the summer of 1944.
The man whom Thomas Jefferson later described as "the principal hope of America's future efforts on the ocean" was born in a gardener's cottage on the...
The story of a gangster so dominant that he made TIME magazine's top-100 list of the 20th century's most influential people.
Sources differ whether Lucy, a slave at Monticello, was Lucy Cottrell (the daughter of Dolly Cottrell) or Lucy (the daughter of Lilly and Barnaby, two...
Lucy Burns friend of Alice Paul worked internationally to get women the right to vote.
Ever since Lusitania sank following a U-Boat strike, people have debated whether the great ship was carrying war materiel during her last voyage.
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