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."
Next in the history of flight is seeing how experimental planes perform under extreme conditions.
NASA has announced that its rover, "Opportunity," is no-longer functioning on Mars.
A chain of events weakens Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer.
After launch, a piece of external-tank insulation breaks loose and strikes Columbia's left wing.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gives President Johnson more power concerning the situation in Vietnam.
The US threatens a shipping quarantine, while Russia will not allow US inspectors to board their ships.
The final collapse of the blowout preventer leads to huge explosions on the Deepwater Horizon.
Penobscot Expedition is the worst naval disaster in American history, until Pearl Harbor.
Douglass's writings earn him fame and such friends as Abraham Lincoln and other former slaves Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman.
"Conductors" are people who lead the slaves to safety; some include runaway slaves such as Harriet Tubman.
During the afternoon of October 26th, 1881, a famous gunfight erupts in Tombstone between the lawmen and the Cowboys.
Most of the numerous women, such as Susan B. Anthony, who fight for women's rights never see victory.
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