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 Bosque Rodondo reservation covered about 160 square miles.
General James Henry Carlton was the architect of the Bosque Rodondo experiment.
James Henry Carlton, who engineered the Bosque Rodondo experiment, was roundly criticized for what happened to the Navajo.
Navajo children were frequently discouraged at school because of the educational methods employed.
This government-produced documentary - entitled "Negro Pilots" - introduces the American public to the first graduates of the Tuskegee Institute's mil...
During a November 17, 1973 televised news conference - during which a Watergate-embattled President Nixon took his case to the American people - the P...
At the beginning, the Tuskegee Airmen were not given much of a chance to participate in war zones (after they finally achieved the right to fly miliar...
In October of 1960, the leader of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations is upset and will not be ignored. To get attention, he ignores protocol ...
On the 21st of February, 1972, President Richard Nixon arrived in China.
Aboard the USS Panay, on the 12th of December 1937, was a Universal News cameraman who had covered World War I and was in China to report on the Japan...
Enoch ("Nucky") L. Johnson - called Nucky Thompson in the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire" - was known as a kind of "Robin Hood" when he was "The Boss" o...
After the end of the Second World War, the United States government continued to test nuclear bombs.
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