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 U-505 has a permanent home at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, where visitors can tour it.
Depth charges from American ships damage the U-505 so badly that the U-boat must rise to the surface.
It is never easy to break the codes because the Germans change them frequently; finally the British learn to decode important weather signals.
On April 30, 1789, George Washington becomes America's president. He is unanimously elected for his first term of office (as he was for his second).
There were not enough planes and guns to defend the Philippines from the Japanese.
After America's Civil War, cattle owners needed a way to move millions of Longhorns north. How would they do it? By cowboys moving the herds over trai...
Bombs strike the USS Arizona causing it to explode; 900 sailors die and the ship sinks.
Americans land on Utah Beach, one of five Normandy beaches attacked on D-day.
The Raptor is agile and can inflict serious damage with its "sickle"claw.
100 years ago, a mother influenced her son to vote "yes" for female suffrage. August 18, 1920 was the day when Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment.
Maps detail the loss of Hooker's Union troops at Chancellorsville.
Lack of commitment to the war by France and the Viet Minh's knowledge of the Vietnamese countryside turns the war in Vietnam's favor.
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