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."
As the Corps of Discovery pushed forward, into the heart of the Great Plains, the explorers saw "little toy dogs.
With Shoshone horses and a Shoshone guide, Lewis and Clark forged ahead with their men.
NASA has released this re-entry and landing video of a mission during which the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour documented a reading of Mach 25.
On the 19th of November, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln spoke to a crowd of people at Gettysburg.
The Emancipation Proclamation is still debated today, what did it say and how did the country react?
Lincoln - a film directed by Steven Spielberg - is based, in part, on Team of Rivals (by Doris Kearns Goodwin).
On the 24th of September, 1957, President Eisenhower dispatched paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas.
The inquest (into the murders of Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby Borden) continues while the story of what may have happened (were Lizzie the murdere...
The murders of Andrew Jackson Borden and his wife, Abby, took place in Fall River, Massachusetts on a hot summer day in 1892.
The day after her parents' funeral, Lizzie Borden burned a dress.
When the district attorney introduces the skull of Andrew Borden at trial, he asks a witness whether the evidence-hatchet fit into the head wound.
Through flashbacks, we learn about Lizzie Borden's relationship with her family.
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