Navajo Windtalkers: America’s Secret Weapon
When the United States fought World War II, they ran the constant risk of information being intercepted over radio waves….
Remember the Alamo
America remembers many great battles that represent a turning point in a conflict that helped shaped our history. We think…
Lowell Factory Girls of the 19th Century
During the first half of the 1800s, girls and young women from throughout New England were recruited to process cotton…
Manifest Destiny
America is a vast country covering thousands of square miles of land that traverses tremendously diverse climate and landscape. From…
John Scopes and the Teaching of Evolution
In the mid-1920s, many young Americans flaunted long-established Victorian culture. Women were voting, illegal booze was flowing through speakeasies, and…
John F. Kennedy
In the life of this great nation, a few of its presidents have emerged from the pack as truly historic…
John O’Sullivan and America’s Manifest Destiny
When leaders wish to conquer foreign lands, they invariably put forth a list of justifications. In America in the 1840s,…
George Washington
It is impossible to reflect on the truly great leadership that has been one of the real blessings of this…
Japanese Internment Camps in the United States
Just off of US Highway 395, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, motorists can find one of the…
Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes when a country is just getting organized, its citizens are considered to be uneducated, out of touch or primitive….