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."
Operation Rolling Thunder demonstrates increased conflict with bombs and napalm dropped on Viet Cong structures.
Abagnale gets caught and sent to a reformatory school.
Children as well as adults must ration food and many other items.
A military commission holds the trial of Mary Surratt and other conspirators.
Almost 40 years later, upon review, Korematsu's conviction is overturned.
Poe may be a victim of "cooping" when he is found ill and in distress in Baltimore. He dies alone in the hospital there.
With help from France, Americans win the war when the British surrender at Yorktown.
Lewis and William Clark start the Corps of Discovery to explore the west; 45 men took food, supplies, gifts for Indians and rifles.
The island of Corregidor holds the last of the US and Filipino troops, it falls to the Japanese on May 6, 1942.
Jackie Robinson faces charges of being disrespectful to investigating officers, rather than refusing to move to the rear of the bus.
The Allied invasion sets off a chain of events that merge to end Hitler's efforts to capture Great Britain.
Crystal Skulls are human skull carvings made of quartz and may be pre-Columbian but carbon-dating is useless because quartz does not contain carbon.
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