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."
Following a period of racial tension and riots during 1967, the city of Cleveland erupted in riots between July 23-28, 1968.
In 1937, a film called "In Old Chicago" was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
On the evening of October 8, 1871 a spark set Chicago ablaze. Learn what made it such an at risk city.
While the Great Fire of 1871 was terrorizing people in Chicago, a town located 250 miles to the north - Peshtigo, Wisconsin - was also burning.
Chicago was a city with many wooden structures when a massive fire started on October 8, 1871.
This is archival footage of the actual soldiers who were rescued from the Cabanatuan death camp and the men (including Lt.
The January 1945 raid on the Cabanatuan prisoner-of-war camp, conducted by Filipino and American forces, remains one of the most spectacular rescue mi...
As they drifted at sea, the castaways were visited by a Great White.
Paving the way for other activists to integrate Woolworth lunch counters, four African-Americans sat in "whites-only" seats at the Greensboro, North C...
Exactly eight months to the day, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, 11,000 American Marines land on a Pacific island called Guadalcanal. They are about...
NOTICE: THIS VIDEO CLIP ABOUT A WORLD WAR II BATTLE COMBINES HISTORICAL FOOTAGE, FROM THE U.
NOTICE: THIS VIDEO CLIP ABOUT A WORLD WAR II BATTLE COMBINES HISTORICAL FOOTAGE, FROM THE U.S. National Archives with interviews and recreated scenes.
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