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Disaster at a Distant Moon
Author: Tom Jones
Three days into their mission, two vital oxygen tanks exploded, seriously damaging Apollo 13's service module and forcing pilot Fred Haise, Jr. and his two fellow astronauts to scramble into the attached lunar module, where they plotted their course home, shivering in the cold on limited oxygen.
American Survivors
Author: The Editors
First Images of the New World
Author: Kim Sloan
“Lost Colony” Governor John White’s Early Paintings Colored European Views for Centuries.
Did Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Love Each Other?
Author: Annette Gordon-Reed
To call it loaded question does not begin to do justice to the matter, given America’s tortured racial history and its haunting legacy.
A Desperate Trek Across America
Author: Andrés Reséndez
As slaves, Cabeza de Vaca and his companions were forced to cope with native North America on its own terms, bridging two worlds that had remained apart for 12,000 years or more.
Taken by Indians
Author: Kevin Sweeney
Mary Rowlandson, captured by Indians in 1676 and marched into the “vast and howling Wilderness,” survived to write the first and perhaps most powerful example of the captivity narrative.
March on Quebec
Author: Willard Sterne Randall
The Awful March of the Saints
Author: David Roberts
A Slave’s Audacious Bid for Freedom
Author: David W. Blight