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."
Thanks to a mother lode of gold and silver, known as "The Comstock," Virginia City became one of the most important western towns in 19th-century Amer...
Image of George Mason's handwritten Declaration of Rights which he drafted in May, 1776.
Vivian Leigh, who played the role of Scarlet O'Hara, in "Gone with the Wind," was married, for a time, to the famous actor Laurence Olivier. In this c...
Lt. General Walter Krueger was head of the U.S. Sixth Army in late 1943.
Who was Walther Schwieger, the German U-boat commander who sank the Lusitania?
This drawing of War Admiral is from Seabiscuit Vs War Admiral: The Greatest Horse Race in History by Kat Shehata (illustrated by Jo McElwee), publishe...
Japanese officials, who feared an Allied invasion of Palawan Island (in the Philippines) ordered a massacre of American servicemen during December of ...
This drawing was produced during the War of 1812.
During August of 1814, American forces were battling British invaders who entered Washington, then set fire to some of the capital city's key building...
Anyone tuning in late to Mercury Theatre on the Air - the night of October 30, 1938 - would have missed the episode's introduction.
A DEA agent guards 5,137 pounds of cocaine seized from a Panamanian ship docked in Miami, Florida.
One reviewer, writing in The New York Times, has said this book is: "An invaluable record of an unforgettable American calamity."
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