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."
Elizabeth Cochrane, whose pen name was Nellie Bly, took a radical round-the-world trip in 1889. It made her the most-famous woman in the world.
A particularly sensational moment occurred during the trial of Lizzie Borden.
When Kamehameha I attempted to unite all eight of the Hawaiian islands, he was successful by 1795 with all but two - Kauai and the nearby island ofNii...
In October of 1960, the leader of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations is upset and will not be ignored. To get attention, he ignores protocol ...
On June 23, 1972, an audio recorder taped a damaging talk - called "The Smoking Gun" - between Nixon and Haldeman. This photo depicts the Watergate Co...
Norman Rockwell listened to FDR's annual speech to Congress, in 1941, about "four freedoms" and created four paintings. They became icons of the war y...
On the 6th of January, 1941 - eleven months before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor - President Franklin D.
This drawing, depicting the Battle of Monroe, is from the August 17, 1861 issue of Harper's Weekly.
Enoch ("Nucky") L. Johnson - called Nucky Thompson in the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire" - was known as a kind of "Robin Hood" when he was "The Boss" o...
O Captain! My Captain!
After the war was over, and Ofuna prisoners were rescued by Allied forces, outsiders were able to view where the POWs had lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is known for some of his free-speech decisions which he wrote while serving as a Supreme Court Justice.
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