American History Story Briefs

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."

After he is banished from Salem, then part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Roger Williams receives invaluable help from Native Americans.

From the Reagan Presidential Library, we learn the following about Ronald Wilson Reagan:Even before he made the White House his home, Ronald Reagan sp...

Rosa Parks brought the civil rights movement fuel to grow with her actions.

Photograph of Rosetta Douglass Sprague, the eldest child of Frederick Douglass and Anna Murray Douglass.

The federal government encouraged the creation of motivational posters during the Second World War.

This is a cropped image of the only-known photograph depicting Roxie Hart who was involved, as a witness, in a 1914 trial in Montgomery County, Indian...

For eight years, Rudolf Abel (Willy Fisher) lives in Brooklyn while serving as a Soviet spy. After he is betrayed by a fellow Soviet spy, Abel is arre...

Rudolf Abel, whose real name was William Fisher, under arrest for espionage, is transferred by plane to/from Texas where he is questioned at the Deten...

Rudolf Abel lived in a studio apartment at 252 Fulton Street in Brooklyn, New York. This image depicts an interior view of his home. Several of Abel�...

The political campaigns, leading-up to the presidential election of 1884, included lots of arguing politicians.

For more than 700 years Russia, a nation rich in natural resources, has defended herself against invaders from other countries.

NASA honored Sacajawea when the federal agency used her name to describe an elliptical caldera on the planet Venus.

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