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."
John Hancock was 39 years old, in 1776, when he was President of the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. He helped to fun...
John Doc Bradley was one of the flag raisers at Iwo Jima and is in the famous picture which Joe Rosenthal took on February 23, 1945. His son wrote "Fl...
John Jay, one of America's founding fathers, was also the country's first Chief Justice (of the U.S. Supreme Court).
Who was John Locke, the British philosopher who was so influential on America’s “Founding Fathers?” Meet Locke and read some of his most-famous...
Johnny Calvin Brewer saw a man who seemed anxious to avoid the police. Brewer's instincts were right, since the man was Lee Harvey Oswald.
Wishing to build a school on his property, Rabe had to join the Nazi party. Woods tells us why.
John Robinson was the much-loved pastor of the Pilgrims while they were living in Leiden, The Netherlands. He suggested that they go to America to liv...
By 1904, when people begin to worry about the potentially addictive effects of coca leaves, John Pemberton has to change his Coca Cola formula.
John Wilkes Booth died four hours after Sgt. Boston Corbett shot him at Garrett's farm.
President Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is a member of a famous acting family.
Riding a very fast roan mare, which he'd rented earlier in the day, John Wilkes Booth escapes from Ford's Theatre, is on the run for 12 days and final...
John W. Young, an American astronaut, flew to the Moon (during Apollo 10), landed on the Moon (during Apollo 16) and flew the first-ever shuttle missi...
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