settlers
America The Story of Us: REBELS
From Jamestown to Plymouth, early settlers fight for survival. Tobacco sows the seeds of opportunity; the north becomes a powerhouse of trade. Tension, taxation and resistance explode into war as the rebels take on the [...]
Mountain Massacre
On September 11, 1857, horror sweeps over a wagon train in the southern mountains of Utah. One hundred and twenty men, women, and children are brutally murdered. For more than a century, their bodies lay [...]
Gold Rush Ghost Towns
In the early-19th century, California was a dusty outpost few Americans had visited. Settlers began to trickle west, but it wasn’t until 1849 that the onslaught began: the Gold Rush. SAVE OUR HISTORY™ ventures into [...]
Godspeed to Jamestown
In the spring of 1607, after several treacherous months at sea, three ships landed on the shores of Virginia and established Jamestown, one of the first permanent English settlements in America. GODSPEED TO JAMESTOWN is [...]
Captives
n the late-17th century, as white settlers in the New World pushed further and further west, Native Americans suddenly found themselves fighting for both their territory and their lives. When these white settlers began encroaching [...]
