NPR explores the creation of Grant Wood's famous "American Gothic." This painting made the author an overnight sensation. Includes photo images of the people that served as Wood's models for the painting as well as numerous links to...

NPR explores the creation of Grant Wood's famous "American Gothic." This painting made the author an overnight sensation. Includes photo images of the people that served as Wood's models for the painting as well as numerous links to...

Although Foster is known as one of America's most famous folksong composers, his lyrics were very racist by today's standards. This article discusses the new lyrics given to his songs.

Sacagawea and her baby, Jean Baptiste.

A biographical sketch of Joseph Cinque, a leader of the Amistad Revolt. An interesting note is an observation by a phrenologist concerning his determination of Cinque's character by examining his head.

Comprehensive site on Susan B. Anthony and her battle for women's rights. Find information and documents on her speeches, complete trial records, her petition to Congress, the 19th Amendment. Also includes a chronology of her life as...

A very good site on the 1919 Chicago "Black" Sox scandal, which ended up in the banishment of 8 major league players for life from the game of baseball. Also includes great information on the ensuing trial and includes a link to the...

Chronology, trial transcripts, biographies, court decisions and quotes from the defendants are included in this detailed analysis of the trial of the Chicago Seven, the seven charged for inciting riots during the 1968 Democratic National...

Image of President Clinton in Senate impeachment trial.

This well-researched site offers a comprehensive study of the 1995 criminal trial of OJ Simpson. Includes not only the law and politics involved in the trial, but also the role of the media and the mass public attention placed upon the...

This site from the University of Missouri-Kansas City provides information on the role of Cotton Mather in the Salem witchcraft trials. Discusses Mather's work "Memorable Providences," in which Mather discusses withcraft.

Doris Ullman, American photographer (1882-1934), said, "A face that has the marks of having lived intensely, that expresses some phase of life, some dominant quality or intellectual power, constitutes for me an interesting face". This...

Arguably the most famous essay every written about the impact of land on American history, Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" explains how Americans' relationship with the environment shaped...

Scroll down to the portrait of Black Hawk to read a brief biography of this famous Native American chief. From the Smithsonian Institution.

Scroll down to the portrait of Black Hawk to read a brief biography of this famous Native American chief. From the Smithsonian Institution.

Scroll down to the portrait of Black Hawk to read a brief biography of this famous Native American chief. From the Smithsonian Institution.

This site from the Bluffton College provides an extensive array of beautiful images providing several views of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, Fallingwater. The waterfall goes right under the house! A true integration of nature and...

General Nathaniel Greene, famous American general from the Southern Campaign during the American Revolution.-E. Benjamin Andrews, 1895

NPR explores the creation of Grant Wood's famous "American Gothic." This painting made the author an overnight sensation. Includes photo images of the people that served as Wood's models for the painting as well as numerous links to...

NPR explores the creation of Grant Wood's famous "American Gothic." This painting made the author an overnight sensation. Includes photo images of the people that served as Wood's models for the painting as well as numerous links to...

NPR explores the creation of Grant Wood's famous "American Gothic." This painting made the author an overnight sensation. Includes photo images of the people that served as Wood's models for the painting as well as numerous links to...

NPR explores the creation of Grant Wood's famous "American Gothic." This painting made the author an overnight sensation. Includes photo images of the people that served as Wood's models for the painting as well as numerous links to...

Quick introduction to one of the more famous American criminals of the Great Depression. Vivid descriptions of his meteoric rise to fame paint the picture of man who lived life dangerously.

Encyclopaedia Britannica offers a brief biography of Linus Pauling, the famous American chemist and two time Nobel Prize winner.