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."
Typhoid Fever - a life-threatening disease caused by bacteria, not by a virus - still impacts about 21.5 million people every year.
Francis Gary Powers was flying a Lockheed U-2 over Soviet territory when he was shot-down by a surface-to-air missile on May 1, 1962.
This is the type of aircraft - a U-2 "spy plane" - which Major Richard S. Heyser flew over Cuba when his photos revealed the the USSR was placing miss...
The general who helped the North win the American Civil War was working in his father's leather store (in Galena, Illinois) when the fighting began. S...
The Quack - a prison guard at Ofuna - seemed to take great pleasure in harming Allied prisoners of war.
Ofuna, a place Louis Zamperini came to know well, was a secret interrogation camp where Japanese officials questioned prisoners of war.
James Montgomery Flagg created this 1917 lithograph as a magazine cover. It soon became used for other purposes, such as recruiting troops for both wo...
Escaping slaves, during the years of the "Underground Railroad," arrive at League Island (near Philadelphia).
Escaping slaves needed to understand a bit of science in order to find their way to freedom. The words of songs helped them to achieve that objective...
Joseph Hooker was known as an arrogant man. Although he was a leading Union General, President Lincoln had to make a decision whether to keep Hooker i...
Otto Boetticher, an artist, was serving as a captain for the Union when he was captured by Confederate soldiers. He was sent to the Salisbury prison c...
After the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Continental Congress authorized a new form of currency to be used throughout the United Colonies...
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