This text about the signing of the Declaration of Independence comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea.

This text about Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise.

This text about the Battle of Bunker Hill comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea.

This text comes from our book, The American Venture. By war, the former English colonies of North America had won their independence. But what they had obtained by war, they could lose in peace—if they found no effective means of governing themselves. Revolutions often follow a predictable path in history. First, revolutionaries establish a new government; then follows a period of confusion, which ends in dictatorship. Happily, the American Revolution did not follow this pat

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part II. While the British and the Americans fought the Germans in Italy, their air forces had been carrying out bombing raids on Germany itself. But Allied air strikes, though very destructive to both property and human life, did not bring about the results Churchill and Roosevelt had desired. Air raids did not at first seriously hurt Germany’s war production, nor did they break the German spirit. The growing number of civ

This text about the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise.