Presents the events in the Civil War leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg and describes that clash and its aftermath.

Describes how delegates from the thirteen original states came together in 1787 to create a Constitution to preserve the newly born United States.

Discusses the developing events taking rockets, satellites, andman into space.

Describes the construction of the Central Pacific, Union Pacific, and other related railroads which joined the east and west coasts by meeting at Promontory Point, Utah, and views both the early days of railroads preceding that event and the effects of the transcontinental railroad thus formed.

A biography of the Englishman who, concerned over the heavy human toll the Industrial Revolution was taking in England, left for America despite laws forbidding the emigration of textile workers, and established the American textile industry.

Describes the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, and the struggle of the colonists to survive in the New World.

Describes the events which led up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the attack itself, and U.S. reaction.