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Banker J. P. Morgan rescued the dollar and bailed out the nation

The British seize Manhattan from the Dutch—and alter the trajectory of North American history

While lauded for their 1903 flight, the Wright brothers were not convinced of their airplane’s reliability to sustain long, controlled flights until October 1905

A Great Lakes Indian rebellion against the British changed the balance forever between Indian and colonist

Although a draw, the fight between the Monitor and Virginia decisively ushered in the modern era

More than a million children participated in the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine trials of 1954, the largest public health experiment in American History

Lincoln’s bid for reelection in 1864 faced serious challenges from a popular opponent and a nation weary of war

A magazine reporter covered the first American deaths in Vietnam, unaware that the soon-to-explode war would mark America’s awakening to maturity

In one momentous decision, Robert E. Lee spared the United States years of divisive violence

Practical rather than idealistic reasons pushed President Kennedy to challenge America to land a man on the moon within the decade