American History Videos

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."

The Dallas Police Department frequently put Oswald in front of television cameras between his time of capture and murder.

Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, was put on trial for murder, commencing November 14, 1881.

On the 9th of August, 1945, a B-29 called Bocks Car dropped a plutonium-239 bomb dubbed Fat Man on the city of Nagasaki.

This film provides a history of NASA's first decade and its role in space exploration.

Nathan Hale was 21-years-old when the British executed him (in 1776) as a spy.

In this video clip, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers plays the trumpet, then the cello, in a duet with Joanne Pearce-Martin, principal keyboardist with the Los...

The Navajo people viewed their lands - including their mountains - as sacred.

Navajo children, today, still hear the stories about "The Long Walk" from their family members.

President Polk, believing in "Manifest Destiny," wanted to expand U.

When the Navajo refused to give up their homes and land, Kit Carson and his soldiers embarked on a "scorched earth" policy about a year before General...

The stories which the Navajo tell about "The Fearing Time" - as they made "The Long Walk" to the parched territory of Bosque Rodondo - are filled with...

Navajo oral history includes horrific stories about the people who were relocated to Bosque Rodondo.

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