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Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America.

Reconstructs a possible mission of the fourteen-year-old spy who carried messages to George Washington's camp in the buttons of his coat during the Revolutionary War.

In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansas farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.

Traces the course of the Civil War, year by year, using profiles of important people, eyewitness accounts, and period art.

In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.

At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor" because he refused to take part in the war.

Everyone knows about Paul Revere's midnight ride. But not everyone knows the harrowing details and narrow escapes that occurred along the way.

Presents information about the people, places, birds, insects, flowers, endangered species, and more associated with each of the fifty states, the nation's capital, and Puerto Rico.

Introduces the history of blacksmithing and discusses the techniques, products, well-known blacksmiths, and commercial importance of this trade in colonial America.

Presents the life of George Washington, focusing on the Revolutionary War years and his presidency.

Presents selections from the title work which features poets' representations of seven geographical regions of the United States, and includes visits with youngsters from around the country, and reviws of related books.

Arriving in New England in 1637, William is determined to recreate his home in England but realizes that the climate requires modifications to it.

Presents colonial food preparation with a look at the influences of available ingredients, cooking methods, and equipment.

A collection of writings by Thomas Jefferson that demonstrate his views on freedom and the ideas that became the foundation of the Declaration of Independence.

Relates the history of the colony of New York from its founding by the Dutch in 1609 to statehood in 1788.