Fireworks were invented in China, and perfected in Italy. But it was immigrants that brought their pyrotechnical secrets to America, creating a Fourth of July tradition: ever-grander fireworks displays. Correspondent Faith Salie visits the New Castle, Pa., fireworks company Pyrotechnico, which will be creating a world-record-worthy Independence Day celebration in Washington, D.C. this July 4th….
Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery and became an influential orator, writer and intellectual, was the most photographed person in America in the 19th century. Nancy Giles explores how Douglass used the early photographic medium to promote the cause of abolition. Source link
American Panorama: From sea to shining sea – CBS News Watch CBS News “Sunday Morning” presents views of America the Beautiful. Photographs by Jonathan Irish. Source link
A long and dangerous heat wave will blast a large swath of the United States this week, the National Weather Service said, with temperatures rising ahead of the July Fourth holiday and feeling even hotter because of the high humidity that’s arriving with it. Several days of high temperatures will settle in across the lower…
This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Sen. Bill Cassidy discusses the explosive meeting between President Trump and Senate Republicans as well as why he changed his vote on the Iran war powers resolution. Plus, Sen. Tim Kaine and CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford join. Source link
Douglas Brinkley on America at 250: History tells us hoping for unity is not futile – CBS News Watch CBS News In these fiercely-polarized times, the presidential historian reminds us that Americans’ freedom has been tested – and has survived – much worse. Source link
Two hundred and fifty years after the Founders put their lives on the line and their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, it’s easy to forget how close it came to not happening at all. On the battlefield, American patriots were spilling their blood for the cause of freedom. The thirteen Northern and Southern colonies…
Nature: Bald eagles – CBS News Watch CBS News We leave you this Sunday with an enduring symbol of our United States: the bald eagle, first seen on the Great Seal of the United States in 1782. Videographer: Carl Mrozek. Source link
The transcontinental railroad changed just about everything in America: transportation, communications, commerce, cities, politics, even our perception of time. Correspondent David Pogue visits Steamtown National Historic Site, in Scranton, Pa., home to Big Boy, the biggest functioning steam train in the world, to learn how trains helped define an expansive America. Source link
Three firefighters died and two were injured while tackling fires on the Colorado-Utah border, the U.S. Wildland Fire Service reported Sunday. The agency — created earlier this year to streamline firefighting and fire reduction across public lands — said the firefighters had been part of an interagency response to the Knowles and Gore fires on…
