They told the commander they thought they were west of a small island near the coast of northwestern France.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Today, Tony Riggs and Larry West tell about the beginning of the United States space program that carried humans into space.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

This week in our series, Frank Oliver and Larry West tell what happened after South Carolina left the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

In time, Paul and Babe the Blue Ox left Maine, and moved west to look for work in other forests.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

This week in our series, Maurice Joyce and Larry West discuss America's foreign policy in the late eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

The Santa Fe Trail began in the state of Missouri, the nineteenth century gateway to the wild and largely unexplored West.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The others were moved back. They were ordered to get ready for a march west to block Jackson's retreat.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Even though West Virginia had remained in the Union, about half of the people in the state supported the South.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

This week in our series, Larry West and Shep O'Neal tell the story of the election of eighteen sixty-eight.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

The workers made good progress on the project until they started working near Big Bend Mountain in West Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

This week in our series, Larry West and Frank Oliver talk about the first term of President Ulysses Grant.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Soon after the Civil War ended in eighteen sixty-five, thousands of Americans began to move west to settle the land.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Across this strange land, no man in the early days of the West knew just where death was waiting for him.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

The vote was delayed in part because of the death of longtime Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.07.02