united states

Meet Harry S. Truman, Joe McACarthy, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King Jr. Malcoln X, Cesar Chavez. Ronald Reagon, and George W. Bush. The question is, "Does our land of promise, at last, have the will to become a nation for all the people"?.

A useful collection of the most important documents in American history introduced and explained.

The Three Branches of the American Government video covers the following topics: Origins of the three branches, the legislative branch, the executive branch, the judicial branch, checks and balances, and review.

"This emotionally charged video is an accurate, sensitive portrayal of the heroic soldiers who fought for the Blue and the Gray. What is left for us are places to see and ponder in a stirring, but tragic, chapter of our history". - cover.

Corporal Thomas Geer and color Sergeant Judson Hicks, company A, 111th New York Infantry, at the battles of Harpers Ferry and Gettysburg.

A musical celebration of the founding of the United States, centering around historical characters as they organize a movement for independence.

Looks at what came after the war - The Treaty of Paris, which secured American independence, and the Constitutional Convention, where Madison and others struggled to put inot words the framework for a new form of government.

The American commander Nathanial Greene forced Britain's Lord Cornwallis to retreat into Virginia, while Daniel Morgan led a company of men to victory in the Battle of the Cowpens, often thought of as the most brillianttactical encounter on American soil.

As war raged across the American wilderness, Ben Franklin struggled to gain recognition for the infant nation. His dramatic mission before the French court is highlighted along with the efforts of the great American commanders in Washington and Arnold.

From Valley Forge, Washington led his newly trained army into battle against the British at Monmouth. This video focuses on these important conflicts, and looks at the worst winter of the war, with the mutiny at Morristown.