The United States and the USSR come to the brink of nuclear war—and pull back.
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivers the most important speech of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Roaring Twenties came to an abrupt end with the Crash of October, 1929.
Long before the White House, the Emancipation, or the Civil War, the man who preserved the Union emerged from an unlikely past.
Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren carry out the Indian Removal Act, mandating that Native tribes in the Southeast move to territory west of the Mississippi.
The United States adopts a new foreign policy—one that echoes down the ages.
In 1820, Congress passed the Missouri Compromise, America’s response to the growing debate over slavery.
At the Battle of Tippecanoe, U.S. and Native American forces clash in modern day Indiana.
When the new nation needed a leader, Washington answered the call.
After defeating the British in war, the Americans needed a new constitution.
British expectations are toppled at Yorktown.
The patriot militiamen attempt to contain the British in Boston, with bloody consequences.
The American patriots join together as Britain’s rule becomes intolerable.
With a tax law in 1765, Great Britain stirs up fury and resistance in her American colonies.
Reaching all thirteen colonies, the Great Awakening established a lasting part of America's landscape.
The conflict between France and Britain reaches America with expensive results.
The colony of Maryland was intended as a refuge for Catholics in the New World.
William Penn sailed for Pennsylvania with great ambitions for a new Quaker colony in the New World.
The Puritans sail for New England to establish their "City upon a hill".
The British establish Jamestown as their first permanent settlement in America.
The first British colony in the New World, Roanoke, remains a mystery to this day.
Columbus opened up the way to one world and left his mark on America.
