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."
During the summer of 1964, university students from various places in the U.
After Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman went missing - following their release from questioning at Sheriff Lawrence Raineys jail - hundreds of people look...
During the "high water mark of the Confederacy," General Armistead (whose friends called him "Lo") leads his Confederate brigade toward the center of ...
General Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969) returns to England, France and America as a military hero after Germany's surrender.
George Herbert Walker Bush was sworn in as America's 41st president on the 20th of January, 1989.
At the end of America's revolutionary war, thirteen U.S. states had thirteen different sets of laws. The question became: "Are we to be a nation?" If...
George Washington, known as "the father" of America, was born on the 22nd of February, 1732, in the British-owned colony of Virginia.
After serving as America's only unanimously elected President, George Washington returned to his beloved home - Mount Vernon - where he died on the 14...
George Washington lived on his family plantation, called Mount Vernon, located along the Potomac River in the colony (now state) of Virginia.
George Walker Bush - born on July 6, 1946 - is the oldest child of President George H.
When Richard Nixon resigned the presidency on the 9th of August, 1974, America's Vice-President was sworn in as the country's 38th chief executive.
It is November 19, 1863, and President Lincoln has a very difficult job. He must deliver an address at the Gettysburg battlefield. He speaks words whi...
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