"What was it like to live in the 13 colonies? Read about day-to-day activities, holidays, celebrations, customs, education, politics and religion." --

Tells the story of the American Revolution in narrative form using primary source documents from this time period.

Will the colonies lose everything they fought for? Confronted with economic collapse and near anarchy, who can save the union? Will freedom be just a new tyranny? Three destitute young men must find their fortunes amidst squabbling colonies that can't determine how to govern. They can barely feed and clothe themselves, with no money to be found anywhere, in addition to having to face bad weather, epidemics, thieves, and cut-throats, confronting...

Tells the story of the convention, including events that led up to the First Continental Congress.

Lewis Elliot and his mother, Stella, are forced to flee their Baltimore home for the modest farm of their cousins in Gloucester County, Virginia. They arrive just as the feared Lord Cornwallis and the hated Colonel Banastre Tarleton take up residence in Gloucester Point and across the York River in Yorktown. The war heats up as Cornwallis fortifies Yorktown and Tarleton begins foraging raids in Gloucester County. Then, while Lewis and his cousins,...

A moving story, told in narrative, of the first Congress of the American Colonies.

What was it like to live in the 13 colonies? Read about day-to-day activities, holidays, celebrations, customs, education, politics and religion.

Explains the political, social, economic, and military aspects of the Vietnam War, the longest in American history.

Details the incidents provoking the American colonists' revolt against the British and the revolt itself which resulted in the forming of an independent nation.