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."
Typhoid Fever - a life-threatening disease caused by bacteria, not by a virus - still impacts about 21.5 million people every year.
The Attica State Correctional Facility, thirty miles east of Buffalo in upstate New York, was an overcrowded place in 1971.
A disaster unfolded at Attica State Prison when officials and inmates clashed during 1971.
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS GRAPHIC PICTURES AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE USED BY ANGRY, UPSET PEOPLE WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE ATTICA PRISON UPRISING.
Iran and America had friendly diplomatic relations until 1953, when the U.
After delivering parts of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, the USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sinks in July of 1945. Years later, a 12-year-old school bo...
After Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and their colleagues are released, they renew their efforts to get a constitutional amendment, granting women the right t...
Universal Newsreel provided coverage of the attack in Pleiku in February of 1965.
As scenes from Vietnam filled American television screens, night after night, people in the country began to grow very weary of the war.
During the Tet Offensive, in early 1968, U.
By 1967, protestors gathered in large crowds to raise their collective voices against the Vietnam war.
After a painstaking reconstruction of the Spanish-Flu virus, Drs.
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