of America’s history. Elaborate, ambitious and cinematic, America The Story of Us will take you into the moments when Americans harnessed technology to advance human progress, from the rigors of linking the continent by transcontinental railroad–the internet of its day–to triumphing over ...
After investigations by generations of scholars, the case of the prehistoric human adventure in the deserts of North America has emerged as a rich, if largely unresolved detective story, complete with abundant and often puzzling clues, no living witnesse
"Amerigo Vespucci took at least three voyages westward," said Cosme. There is some controversy among historians about when Vespucci set sail on his first voyage. Many accounts place the sail date in 1499, seven years after Columbus landed in the Bahamas. On the 1499 voyage, Vespucci sailed to...
reminded us of Brown Bluff’s subglacial eruption one million years ago. A majority of the landing groups headed east towards the rookery. However, it proved quite difficult to maintain a 5-meter distance from the gentoo penguins–perpetually parading along the beach. So, I ventured westward, ...
of spring atSt. Joseph,Missouri, we joined one of the first caravans of emigrants going westward over the OldOregon Trail. Traveling over the wonderful prairies and through the rich valleys of easternKansas, we had our ideas of theGreat American Desertrudely but pleasantly shattered. In due ...
As more Central and South Europeans joined the westward population flow in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the effi- ciency of the melting pot slowed noticeably and public alarm led to the enactment of a series of restrictive immigration laws. But it was only after World War II that we ...
As this Islamic empire began to disintegrate, the Jews began their flight westward to Spain. Despite many problems and conflicts in places where Christians are a suffering minority in an Islamic society especially in war zones like Iraq, what you never read about are the stories of the simple ...
The broad, flat valley of the Illinois was spread beneath him like a map, bounded in the distance by its low wall of woody hills. The river wound at his feet in devious57 channels among islands bordered with lofty trees; then, far on the left, flowed calmly westward58 through the vast...