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."
Individual photos and collections portray the damage to houses, people and property.
One of Bass' letters reaches the right people in the North. Henry Northup makes a plan to free Platt (Solomon Northup).
The world watches on TV as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take mankind's first steps on the moon.
"Houston, we've had a problem," is how Apollo 13 lets mission control know about serious problems aboard the space capsule. Teamwork on the ground and...
The American public loves President McKinley, who is intelligent, who loves his wife, and has an appealing personality.
President McKinley is laid to rest as huge crowds look on and Thomas Edison films the event.
Key, greatly relieved about the outcome of the battle, writes a poem about it. Soon thereafter, his words are set to the tune of a popular song.
During his long career, Herblock targets politics and public policy using truth to remind public servants that they serve the people.
The remaining 55 hostages are let go after 444 days, and Mendez receives honors for his rescue mission.
When his main contact in America defects in Paris, Rudolf Abel is "found out." The FBI tracks him down, to his Brooklyn neighborhood, and arrests him ...
President Johnson's personal diary entries lack a sense of urgency concerning the alleged second attack in the Gulf of Tonkin on 4 August 1964.
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