Watch the opening scene of War of the Worlds.
Martians! In New Jersey! It was the most famous invasion that never happened.Â
Shortly after taking office, TR said of the Panama Canal that, "No single great material work which remains to be undertaken on this continent is as of such consequence to the American people."
Watch Eleanor Roosevelt discuss service and the development of the Peace Corps with JFK and other officials on Prospects of Mankind.
In the early 1600s, a group of religious radicals left for the New World.Â
The challenges the Pilgrims faced still resonate centuries later as we remember the origins of America.
Watch the opening scene of The Pilgrims.
The longtime governor of Plymouth Colony, William Bradford, wrote Of Plymouth Plantation.
The first Thanksgiving wasn't the same holiday we celebrate today.Â
Mayflower passenger John Howland almost didn't make it to the New World.
Shattering the foundations of white supremacy in a segregated state.
In 1967, a demonstration at the University of Wisconsin was the first violent campus protest of the antiwar movement.
