Rachel Carson and the environmental movement

Series: Cornerstones of freedom. Second series

• The Library of Congress

• The Lincoln-Douglas debates

• The NAMES Project

• The Smithsonian Institution

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Golden Gate Bridge

• The 2000 presidential election

• The attack on Pearl Harbor

• The FBI

• Japanese American internment camps

• The Korean War Veterans Memorial

• September 11, 2001

• The 1968 Democratic Convention

• The Alamo

• The Central Pacific Railroad

• The Challenger disaster

• The civil rights movement in America: 1954-1968

• The first Thanksgiving

• The Lewis and Clark Expedition

• The Mayflower Compact

• The Oklahoma City National Memorial

• Old Ironsides

• The Pledge of Allegiance

• The Scopes trial

• The space race

• The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

• The Vietnam Memorial

• Wall Street

• The abolitionist movement

• Air Force One

• Annapolis

• Benjamin Franklin and electricity

• The Boston Massacre

• Brown v. Board of Education: a civil rights milestone

• D-Day

• The Erie Canal

• The Iran-Contra scandal

• Rachel Carson and the environmental movement

• The Statue of Liberty

• The surrender at Appomattox

• The surrender at Yorktown

• The Washington Monument

• The Watergate scandal

• West Point

• The Wounded Knee Massacre

• Ellis Island

• Louis Armstrong and the jazz age

• Rosie the Riveter

• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

• The Underground Railroad

• The Great Depression

• The battles of Lexington and Concord

• Building the New York subway

• The great Mississippi flood of 1927

• The Manhattan Project

• The U.S. Supreme Court