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."
These are the Morse-code transmissions which then-corporal Irving Strobing sent during the hours before Corregidor fell to the Japanese on May 6, 1942...
Two weeks before LBJ announced he would not seek his partys nomination for another term as President, Bobby Kennedy announced that he would run.
On the evening of March 31, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson requested broadcast time. No one expected what he had to say.
At the end of the first day of battle at Gettysburg - July 1, 1863 - Union lines had collapsed.
J.E.B. Stuart was given command of all cavalry forces of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia on the 17th of August, 1862.
Clarence Darrow, one of America's great trial lawyers, despised the death penalty.
General Leslie Groves was the lead coordinator of the Manhattan Project, the U.
This is part two of a video biography about General Leslie Groves, the lead coordinator of the Manhattan Project.
Lewis and Clark remained friends until the end.
President Thomas Jefferson asked one of his key aides, twenty-eight-year-old Meriwether Lewis, to lead an expedition west - all the way to the "wester...
Thomas Jefferson appointed Captain Merriwether Lewis to be his personal secretary.
Despite dreadful conditions and too-few horses, Lewis & Clark reach the Great Falls on June 13, 1805. Sacagawea soon makes a remarkable discovery, lea...
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