With the first shots of the American Revolution, they downed tools and ran to help in the fight for independence. This is the story of the ordinary people who helped found a...
Hollywood spy movies have been entertaining audiences for years, but for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg – this was no glitzy thriller. They were the first US citizens to be convicted and executed for sharing government secrets during...
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis led Americans in the American Civil War: Both men were born in Kentucky where our story takes place. But what happened to them both once the war...
The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in US history. Issued at the height of the American Civil War, it granted freedom to enslaved people living in the eleven breakaway states of the...
