And it tells about the role Chinese workers played in helping to build America into an industrial power.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

He found fossil remains of the same kind of an early plant in areas of Africa, South America,India, Australia and even Antarctica.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

And,they provide an interesting commentary on how America's government,people, and artists have chosen to represent their history.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

He became an officer in the Army during America's war with Mexico in the late eighteen forties.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

A Polish farmer wrote to such an organization in Warsaw: "I want to go to America.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

The Washington Post newspaper described America's growing power this way: "A new understanding seems to have come upon us, an understanding of our strength.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

The average college student in America spent an estimated seven hundred dollars on textbooks last year.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

But it was also an attempt to establish a top professional level for soccer in America.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

America's thirtieth president was, in some ways,an unusual kind of person to lead the country.

VOA: special.2010.12.23

Soldiers of the new Confederate States of America shelled the Union base at Fort Sumter, built on an island in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The group sees this movement as an example of America's culture of "too much stuff."

VOA: special.2009.09.11

America's National Weather Service is an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,or NOAA.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

It was both a labor problem and an immigration problem thousands of Chinese workers had been brought to America to help build the Central Pacific Railroad.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Later,he served as an officer in the Union army during America's Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

It was an America that felt it had sacrificed enough for other people.

VOA: special.2010.11.18

He had led an unsuccessful fight in Congress to keep America using silver.

VOA: special.2010.07.01