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."
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS HISTORIC FOOTAGE OF AL CAPONE AND INCLUDES INTERVIEWS (AND COMMENTARY) REGARDING HIS CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS HISTORIC FOOTAGE OF AL CAPONE AND INCLUDES INTERVIEWS (AND COMMENTARY) REGARDING HIS CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.
Lin-Manuel Miranda performs the opening rap song from his award winning play "Hamilton".
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns work hard to build their Congressional Committee.
Mistreated at the D.
Protesting the treatment of women, and still advocating for women's suffrage by reminding President Wilson of his own words (applied in a different co...
Amelia Earhart tells us what it was like to be the first female to fly across the Atlantic. She took-off five years to the day after Lindbergh's trans...
This clip, from a Discovery-Channel documentary on Amelia Earhart, contains historic footage of Earhart's last flight.
Did you know ... America's Civil War started where it ended - in the backyard of Wilmer McLean. Take a look at this piece of American (and Virginian) ...
When the war in the North was fought to a stalemate, Sir Henry Clinton thought his troops could defeat the rebellion in the American South. Pe...
On the 14th of August, 1945 (August 15th, in Tokyo), Emperor Hirohito told the Japanese people (by radio) that the war was over.
WARNING: THIS CLIP RECREATES A KIDNAPPING SCENE AND SHOWS HOW AFRICANS WERE TAKEN FROM THEIR HOMES AND SOLD AS SLAVES.
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