“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.” – Walt Whitman (preface to the first edition of Leaves of Grass, 1855)
American Heroes (Medal of Honor Recipients from Iraq/Afghanistan)
America: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (The state of American history education)
Christopher Columbus Finds Land (October 12, 1492)
America’s Birth Certificate (The first map with the name “America”)
1620: New Beginnings (The Pilgrims arrive on the Mayflower)
A Tradition of Giving Thanks (Giving thanks to God in American history)
One Nation Under God (Prayer and religious liberty in America)
Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)
You’re a Grand Old Flag (The story of the Stars and Stripes)
War Leads to Revolution (The French and Indian War)
The British Open Fire (The Boston Massacre)
Henry Knox’s Cannon Haul (The Continental Army secures Boston)
Common Sense Comes to America (Thomas Paine)
Caesar Rodney’s Ride for Independence (Declaration signer from Delaware)
The Road to July 4, 1776 (The events that led to independence)
Lives, Fortunes & Sacred Honor (The signers of the Declaration of Independence)
The Fog That Saved an Army (The Battle of Long Island)
December 1776: The Month That Saved America (The Battle of Trenton)
America’s Long Winter (Valley Forge)
Bald Eagles & Pyramids (The Great Seal)
Thaddeus Kościuszko: The Pure Son of Liberty (Revolutionary War Hero)
The Little Known Ride of Jack Jouett (Saving Thomas Jefferson)
The Flames of Freedom (The story of Rebecca Motte)
Turning the World Upside Down (The British surrender at Yorktown)
In Service to His Country (George Washington puts down a mutiny)
Growing America (The Northwest Ordinance)
We the People (The Constitutional Convention)
A More Perfect Union (The Constitution’s Structure)
If Men Were Angels (Federalist Papers/Constitution’s ratification)
America’s First Inauguration (George Washington)
George Washington Gives Thanks
To Bigotry No Sanction (George Washington makes clear that religious liberty applies to all)
American Rights (The Bill of Rights)
France: Not the American Revolution (The French Revolution shows the path not taken)
Washington, D.C. and the Art of the Deal (Creation of our nation’s capital)
A Farewell to a New Nation (George Washington’s “Farewell Address”)
Free Speech, Aliens & Sedition (The Alien and Sedition Acts)
Supreme Decisions (The Supreme Court)
A 36th-Round Knockout (Thomas Jefferson)
To the Shores of Tripoli (Barbary Pirates)
Dueling Interests (Alexander Hamilton/Aaron Burr)
A Real British Invasion (The War of 1812)
America’s Anthem (The National Anthem)
Advice From a Founding Father (Thomas Jefferson)
The Greatest Speech in Senate History? (Daniel Webster)
A Visitor to American Democracy (Alexis de Tocqueville)
Americans Move West (The Oregon Trail)
The Debates (Abraham Lincoln/Stephen Douglas)
The Origins of Slavery in America
Abolitionists Challenge Slavery in America
The Last Letter of Sullivan Ballou (A Civil War soldier’s final letter to his wife)
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! (Julia Ward Howe writes “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”)
Lincoln’s Proclamation (The Emancipation Proclamation)
The Last Best Hope of Earth (Abraham Lincoln)
America’s Stand of the 300 (The 20th Maine Regiment at Gettysburg)
William Carney’s Medal of Honor (The first African-American Medal of Honor recipient/54th MA)
A New Birth of Freedom (The Gettysburg Address)
With Malice Toward None (Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address)
Ulysses S. Grant Versus the KKK (Reconstruction/Post-Civil War)
Mary Edwards Walker’s Medal of Honor (The only female Medal of Honor recipient)
Bass Reeves Tames the Wild West (The story of U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves)
Electrified (Thomas Edison/Nicola Tesla)
The World’s Symbol of Opportunity (The Statue of Liberty)
The Original Man of Steel (Andrew Carnegie)
Airborne (The Wright Brothers)
Across Two Oceans (The Panama Canal)
The Good Citizen (Theodore Roosevelt)
Senators Were Chosen How? (The 17th Amendment)
Chasing Pancho Villa (Mexican outlaw Pancho Villa)
A Stroke in the White House (Woodrow and Edith Wilson/25th Amendment)
America Enters The Great War (World War I)
The Story of Martin Treptow (A WWI soldier’s story)
Live, Comply, Die: A Snapshot of Communism (Communism’s sinister history)
One Man Escapes Communism (One man’s escape from Communist Romania)
The Socialists Next Door (Socialism’s devastating consequences for Cuba and Venezuela)
Communism’s American Hit List (How communism gains influence in America)
An Early Hollywood Icon Falls Silent (Rudolph Valentino/1920’s America)
Thoughts on the Declaration (Calvin Coolidge)
America’s Depressed Decade (The Great Depression)
The Attack (Pearl Harbor)
Christmas 1941 (Franklin Roosevelt/Winston Churchill)
70 Years After D-Day (June 6, 1944)
The Flags of Iwo Jima (The Battle of Iwo Jima)
Fighting the Third Reich (The origins of the evil of Nazi Germany)
The Third Reich Attacks (America enters WWII/The Battle of the Bulge)
Ending the Evil of the Third Reich (The Holocaust/end of World War II)
A Father’s Message (A World War II Marine’s final letter to his sons)
The Bomb (Atomic bombs used against Japan)
The Cold War Begins (Harry Truman)
The Korean War (Almost) Ends (The Korean War)
In God We Trust (America’s National Motto)
Duty, Honor, Country (Douglas MacArthur)
Two Speeches in West Berlin (John Kennedy/Ronald Reagan)
Duck and Cover: Nuclear Missiles in Cuba (The Cuban Missile Crisis)
“That’s One Small Step For Man… (The moon landing)
Hostages (The Iran Hostage Crisis)
Do You Believe In Miracles? Yes! (U.S.A. hockey defeats the Soviet Union)
Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth (The Space Shuttle Challenger)
A Day of Remembrance (09/11/2001)
Lone Survivor (The story of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell)