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Simple text and pictures recount the life of Patrick Henry, a delegate to the Continental Congress and the first governor of Virginia.

Where was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? Speaking out against England's stamp tax on the the floort of the House of Burgesses? Languishing on a sack of salt in his country store? Or being elected governor? Well, no matter where he was or what he was doing, the things that happened to Patrick Henry always seemed to happen on the 29th of May?.

John Hancock had everything a man could want. He lived in a beautiful house, wore fancy clothes and ate the most delicious food.

Traces the career and early life of the Scottish-born sea captain who, after killing a mutineer, sailed to America, where he became a hero of the Revolution and founded the United States Navy.

A biography of the Washington lawyer and amateur verse writer who composed the words of "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the War of 1812.

A brief biography of one of early America's greatest friends and defenders, Gilbert du Motier, better known through history as the Marquis de Lafayette.

A biography of the great Boston silversmith and patriot of the American Revolution, who helped his country win independence.

Recounts the early life of the boy who grew up to become a famous silversmith and Revolutionary War patriot.

This book teaches young readers about Betsy Ross, the woman who reportedly stitched the first American Flag.

Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.

Young Tim Meeker learns some bitter life lessons when his sixteen-year-old brother goes off to fight with the Patriots in the Revolutionary War, while he remains home with his reluctantly Loyalist family in the Tory town of Redding Ridge, Connecticut.

The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.

Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British.

Addy and her mother forgo their Christmas plans to help the newly freed slaves arriving in Philadelphia during the Civil War.

In 1864, after her father and brother are sold to another owner, nine-year-old Addy Walker and her mother escape from their cruel life as slaves in North Carolina to freedom in Philadelphia.