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."
How much power should America's branches of government have?
The war for independence was finally over, but a cash-strapped Congress had, for years, failed to pay the Continental Armys officers and soldiers. How...
Esther Morris was an early pioneer and feminist.
President McKinley was shot by an anarchist. Why did he shoot the President?
After the U.S. Supreme Court issued its school-desegregation opinion inBrown v Board of Education(1954) - impacting not just theschool in Topeka, Kans...
James Madison, America's 4th President, was also the drafter of the U.S. Constitution and the country's Bill of Rights.
While he was still a college student, at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy wrote ''Why England Slept.''
The Gulf of Mexico was once larger than it is today. Algae, growing along its perimeter, provided the first ingredients for the oil formation which oc...
William Barret Travis was a lawyer born in Conecuh County (Alabama) on the 9th of August, 1809. He became famous at the Alamo.
This image depicts an area of Leiden known as William Brewstersteeg (William Brewster Alley). Brewster, an American Pilgrim, lived here before he left...
William Haines Lytle was born in Cincinnati, November 2, 1826. He wrote a famous poem, commemorating the death of Jesse James.
Elected in 1840, William Henry Harrison is sworn-in as America's 9th President in March of 1841. He dies in office the next month.
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