Cornerstones of Freedom
By Heather Idoni
Updated Saturday, March 28, 2009
(Some of these titles were published more recently. I prefer the older ones for some titles, newer for others. Use your own judgement!)
The Story of...
...Admiral Peary at the North Pole
...African-Americans in the Old West
...African-Americans in the Thirteen Colonies
...Alcatraz
...the Alamo (Battle of the Alamo)
...Apollo 11
...Arlington National Cemetery
...the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
...the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
...the Assassination of Martin Luther King
...the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
...the Barbary Pirates
...the Battle for Iwo Jima
...the Battle of Antietam
...the Battle of the Bulge
...the Battle of Bull Run
...the Battle of Chancellorsville
...the Battle of the Little Bighorn
...the Battle of Shiloh
...the Bill of Rights
...the Black Hawk War
...the Bonhomme Richard
...Booker T. Washington
...the Boston Tea Party
...the Brooklyn Bridge
...Building the Capital City
...the Burning of Washington
...the California Gold Rush
...the Capitol
...the Challenger Disaster
...the Chicago Fire
...Child Labor Laws
...the Chisholm Trail
...Christopher Columbus
...Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier
...the Civil Rights Marches
...Clara Barton
...the Clipper Ships
...the Cold War
...the Conestoga Wagon
...the Constitution
...the Cuban Missile Crisis
...D-Day
...the Declaration of Independence
...the Disability Rights Movement
...the Dred Scott Decision
...the Election of Abraham Lincoln
...Ellis Island
...the Emancipation Proclamation
...Empire State Building
...the Erie Canal
...the Fall of the Soviet Union
...the FBI
...First Ladies
...the Flight at Kitty Hawk
...Ford's Theater and the Death of Lincoln
...Fort Sumter
...the Freedom Riders
...Geronimo
...the Gettysburg Address
...the Gold at Sutter's Mill
...the Golden Spike
...the Great Depression
...the Great Society
...Green Mountain Boys
...Harriet Beecher Stowe
...the Haymarket Riot
...Henry Ford and the Automobile
...the Hindenburg Disaster
...Hiroshima and Nagasaki
...the Homestead Act
...the Iran Hostage Crisis
...Jackie Roblinson Breaks the Color Line
...Jamestown (Colony)
...Jane Addams and Hull House
...Jefferson Davis
...John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
...the Johnstown Flood
...Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine
...Kent State
...the Lafayette Escadrille
...the Lewis and Clark Expedition
...Lexington and Concord
...the Liberty Bell
...the Library of Congress
...the Lincoln Memorial
...the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
...the Little Bighorn
...Live Aid
...the Lone Star Republic
...the Louisiana Purchase
...the Magna Carta
...Malcolm X
...the Manhattan Project
...Marquette and Jolliet
...Mary McLeod Bethune
...the Mayflower Compact
...the Mississippi Flood of 1993
...the Mississippi Steamboats
...the Monitor and the Merrimac
...the Montgomery Bus Boycott
...Monticello
...Mount Rushmore
...Mount Vernon
...the New England Whalers
...the New York Stock Exchange
...the Nineteenth Amendment
...Old Glory
...Old Ironsides
...the Oregon Trail
...the Panama Canal
...Paul Revere
...the Peace Corps
...the Persian Gulf War
...the Pilgrims
...the Pony Express
...the Powers of Congress
...the Powers of the President
...the Powers of the Supreme Court
...Presidential Elections
...the Pullman Strike
...Rachel Carson and the Environmental Movement
...Reconstruction
...the Roaring Twenties
...the Rough Riders
...the Saigon Airlift
...the Salem Witch Trials
...the San Francisco Earthquake
...the Santa Fe Trail
...Seward's Folly
...Sherman's March to the Sea
...the Sinking of the Battleship Maine
...the Smithsonian Institution
...the Spanish-American War
...the Spirit of St. Louis
...the Star-Spangled Banner
...the Statue of Liberty
...the Supreme Court
...the Surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse
...the Surrender at Yorktown
...Susan B. Anthony
...the Teapot Dome Scandal
...Tecumseh
...Television
...Thomas Edison
....Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court
...Times Square
...the Titanic
...the Trail of Tears
...the Transcontinental Railroad
...the Triangle Factory Fire
...the Underground Railroad
...the Unification of Germany
...the United Nations
...the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
...U. S. Olympics (Olympians)
...the U. S. S. Arizona
...Valley Forge
...the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial (Vietnam Memorial)
...the Vietnam Women's Memorial
...Watergate
...the White House
...Williamsburg
...Women Who Shaped the West
...the Women's Movement
...Women's Voting Rights
...Wounded Knee
...Yellowstone National Park