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."
Howard Hughes invested huge sums of his own money (in addition to funds provided by the federal government) as he designed, developed, built and perso...
In this video clip, which contains historical footage, Howard Hughes comments on his speed-breaking flights.
This video clip, from National Geographic's series on the Vietnam war, includes an interview with Lt Col Hal Moore plus historical footage regarding a...
This historical footage, shot by the Edison Company soon after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, depicts the widespread impact of the disast...
Government agencies predicted that tsunami waves, generated by the March 11th earthquake, could extend to California's coast (among many other places)...
The mother of one of the children who died in the fire, at Our Lady of the Angels School, remembers what happened on December 1, 1958.
President Lincoln wanted America to take a moderate approach when it was time to rebuild the country, and reconstruct the South, at the end of the Civ...
A video clip dedicated to the memory of Gary Gordon and Randy Shugart, two of the heroes of Black Hawk Down.
Six days after Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, ABC News broadcast a special report on the events. An eyewitness explains ...
When Iran nationalized its oil, Britain and its Anglo-Iranian Oil Company were no longer in charge of processing oil and getting it shipped to "the fr...
By 1951, when Mohammad Mossadeq (Mosaddegh) was Prime Minister of Iran, people in the West were worried that Iran would actually nationalize its vast ...
WARNING: THIS CLIP RECREATES SCENES FROM THE BATTLE FOR FREDERICKSBURG, DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
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