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."
On the 7th of March, 1965, Alabama law-enforcement officials attacked civil-rights marchers as they attempted to cross the bridge in Selma. These are ...
It starts on 7 March 1965 when a civil rights procession, from Selma to Montgomery, turns violent. MLK gets involved and leads the second attempt (on ...
Bill Genaust, the camera man who recorded the live footage of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, died in the fighting nine days later.
Sgt. Matt Eversmann is portrayed by Josh Hartnett in the movie Black Hawk Down. He is a hero from the Battle for Mogadishu.
Racism in America, during the days before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was even manifested in law-enforcement officials.
Jess Sarber - Sheriff of Allen County in October of 1933 - lived in Lima, Ohio.
The houses pictured here - called "shotguns" - are in the Farish Street District of Jackson, Mississippi.
Sid Phillips describes what it was like to be a young Marine fighting in "The Pacific" during WWII.
Silently marching down 5th Avenue, nearly 10,000 African-Americans protest discrimination and Jim-Crow laws on July 28, 1917. It is the first time tha...
This image depicts Henry Raeburn's portrait of Sir Walter Scott, which he created in 1822.
This drawing - entitled Africans on Board the Slave Bark Wildfire, April 30, 1860 - was published in Harper's Weekly on the 2nd of June, 1860.
A pro-Southern political cartoon intended to show that American slaves were better-off than British workers.
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