- Abolitionists: Individuals who opposed slavery and worked to abolish American laws allowing it
- American Revolution: Various topics
- Amistad Incident: The case of kidnapped slaves pushed America closer to civil war
- Anthony, Susan B. Advocate for women’s rights
- Apollo 1: A disastrous fire killed three astronauts during a training session
- Apollo 11: The first manned mission to the Moon
- Apollo 13: Aborted mission to the Moon during which Jim Lovell reported: “Houston, we’ve had a problem”
- Arnold, Benedict: American traitor during the Revolutionary War
- Atomic Age: Albert Einstein’s letter to President Franklin Roosevelt ushered in the atomic age
- Balance of Power: The “rough and tumble” world of American politics
- Bataan Death March: After surrendering to Japanese forces, American and Filipino soldiers marched to prisoner-of-war camps in The Philippines
- Boone, Daniel: Legendary American hero who also stood trial for treason
- Borden, Lizzie: Accused of killing her father and stepmother with an axe, she was freed by an all-male jury
- Braddock, James J. - Cinderella Man: Story of a rising star when boxing was America’s national sensation
- Bull Run: First land skirmish of the civil war, fought near Manassas Junction
- Challenger Explosion: Seventy-three seconds after the launch of Mission STS 51-L, the space shuttle exploded
- Chancellorsville: Famous civil war battle, won by the Confederates, in which Stonewall Jackson was fatally wounded
- Child Labor: Unregulated until the 20th century. With pictures from national archives, see the working children of America
- Child Slavery: Life as a child slave in the American South
- Civil War: Highlights of the war between the states
- “Color Line” and Baseball: Segregation in America’s major league baseball
- Columbia Disaster: Heading toward a Florida landing, the shuttle disintegrated over Texas
- Constitution, U.S. The story of America’s constitution (and the convention which created it)
- Cuban Missile Crisis: America comes close to war with the Soviet Union
- Darrow, Clarence: Prominent American lawyer (1857-1938), he defended “lost-cause cases” like Leopold and Loeb.
- Declaration of Independence: The story of America’s decision to sever ties with Great Britain
- Douglass, Frederick: Defying the “no education for slaves” rule, he sees education as the path to freedom
- Dred Scott Decision: U.S. Supreme Court rules that Congress cannot prohibit slavery in any American territory
- Dyer, Mary: First woman executed in the American colonies, she sought religious freedom
- Eighteenth-Century Politics: Unsettling laws, imposed by the British Parliament against American colonies, led to a revolution
- Election of 1800: One of the most bitter presidential elections in American history, Thomas Jefferson considered it the country’s second revolution
- Executive Order 9066: President Franklin Roosevelt’s order to send Japanese-Americans to internment camps during WWII
- Federalist Papers: A collective effort by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay (writing as Publius) to persuade New York voters to ratify the proposed American constitution
- Fredericksburg: Famous civil war battle, won by the Confederates
- Freedom of Speech: A brief look at America’s early cases on the right of “free speech”
- Galveston: America's worst natural disaster
- Garfield, President James: The story of the President’s assassination
- Great Depression: A world-wide financial crisis descends on America, creating economic chaos which lasted until the second world war
- Great Fire: On the 8th and 9th of October, 1871, three American cities burned: Chicago (Illinois), Peshtigo (Wisconsin) and Holland (Michigan)
- Hindenburg Disaster: Arriving for its first trip of the 1937 season, the air ship exploded as it was landing in New Jersey
- Hiroshima: The U.S. dropped the world’s first atomic bomb, used in war, on this Japanese city
- Hoovervilles: During the Great Depression, shanty towns were home to desperate Americans
- Hubble Telescope - Pictures from space: America’s space observatory orbits the Earth once every ninety-seven minutes
- Hutchinson, Anne: Accused of having inappropriate theological positions, Anne Hutchinson was tried in the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1637
- Jackson, Thomas J. (“Stonewall”): The death of Jackson, a leading Confederate general, was a major blow to the South
- James Gang: The story of Frank and Jesse James, set against the backdrop of America’s civil war
- Japanese-American Internment: Early in the second world war, American citizens of Japanese descent were sent to internment camps
- Jefferson, President Thomas: Once known as the “silent member” of Congress, he authored America’s Declaration of Independence
- Jim Crow Laws: The story of America’s legal segregation
- Kansas - Massacre in Lawrence: To “punish” Kansas for joining the Union as a free state, raiders sacked Lawrence and killed many residents
- Kansas-Nebraska Act: Decision on free versus slave states, it repealed the Missouri Compromise
- Kennedy, John F. - Assassination: The story of JFK’s assassination
- Kennedy, President John F. - In Berlin: Speaking at the Berlin Wall, JFK declares “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner)
- Kennedy, Robert F. - Assassination: The story of Bobby Kennedy’s assassination
- Korean War: Fighting to a stalemate on the Korean Peninsula
- Korematsu v United States: The U.S. Supreme Court case which condoned relocating Japanese-Americans to internment camps
- Lafayette Escadrille: Before the U.S. joined World War I, young American pilots flew for France
- Letters from Brutus: Essays urging New York voters to reject the proposed American constitution
- Lewis & Clark: Leaders of the Corps of Discovery, one of America’s most famous expeditions
- Lincoln, President Abraham: The story of the President’s assassination
- Louisiana Purchase: President Jefferson makes a deal with Napoleon Bonaparte
- McKinley, President William: The story of the President’s assassination
- Major League Baseball: Its early days
- Marbury v Madison: Legendary Supreme Court case which created the power of judicial review for America’s high court
- Marshall, Chief Justice John: One of America’s most famous jurists
- Missouri Compromise: An 1820 decision to admit Missouri as an American slave state
- Missouri - Life During Civil War: A “slave” state which remained with the Union, Missouri was the scene of violence during the war
- Mount Rushmore: The story of carving presidential faces on the side of a South Dakota mountain
- Murder at Harvard: The sensational case against John Webster, a Harvard professor
- Murder at the Fair: Scholars believe that the 6th of September, 1901, was one of the days on which America dramatically changed
- Nagasaki: The U.S. dropped the world’s second atomic bomb, used in war, on this Japanese city
- Normandy Invasion: The story of D-Day
- Penobscot Expedition: Worst American Naval disaster before Pearl Harbor
- Pentagon Papers: Deception in the federal government is uncovered, then reported
- Pilgrims - Plymouth Rock: Who were these early settlers - and - what happened to their ship, the Mayflower?
- Plessy v Ferguson: In its “separate but equal” decision, the U.S. Supreme Court legalizes racial segregation
- Political Cartoons: Poking fun at American presidents
- Posters of World War II: America’s government creates propaganda posters during the war
- Presidential Desk: How a ship (whose wood was later used to make the president’s desk) avoided war between America and Britain
- Puritans: Early settlers in "The New World
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- Reagan, President Ronald: In Berlin, the American president urges the Soviet Union to “tear down this wall” which divided the city
- Revere, Paul: Legendary American hero, immortalized by poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who also stood trial for treason
- San Francisco Earthquake: A massive earthquake, followed by a great fire, decimated the city in April of 1906
- Schenck v United States: Free speech, in America, does not include “falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic”
- September 11: America Attacked - includes videos of both planes striking the World Trade Center
- School Busing: A chapter in the struggle for American civil rights
- Shoot-out at the OK Corral: Story of Wyatt Earp, the Cowboys and the Clanton brothers
- Slave Rights: Not allowed a defense at trial
- Slave Voices - Narratives: Stories from slaves, and former slaves, who worked in the American South
- Spanish Flu: "The worst epidemic the United States has ever known"
- Star-Spangled Banner: The story of Francis Scott Key and the poem which became a national anthem
- Statue of Liberty: The story of America’s most famous statue
- Suffrage: Highlights of the American women’s struggle for the right to vote
- Trinity Test: America detonates the world’s first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945
- Truman, President Harry: Decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan
- Truman, President Harry: Participates in the Potsdam Conference
- Underground Railroad: A way for people to escape the life of American slavery
- Vietnam War: Highlights of America’s divisive war
- Virginia Tech - Campus Massacre: The worst mass shooting in American history
- Westward Expansion: Scenes from the American West during a time of expansion
- Whaling Industry: In the nineteenth century, oil from whales provided fuel for America’s lamps
- World Wars - Impact on American Children: Learning how to buy with a ration card was just one way children were affected - especially by World War II
- Wright Brothers - First Powered Flight: The world changed on the 17th of December, 1903, when two brothers from Ohio flew an engine-powered plane