Early America

John Smith is in shackles in Work or Starve: Captain John Smith and the Jamestown Colony,...

Powhatan decides to destroy the colonists. With little food, 90 percent of the colonists ...

Charles is a young boy sold into servitude when his parents die coming to America. He bef...

Declaring Our Independence depicts the formation of the important document, the Declarati...

In The Reveres: A Family Forced Apart, Paul Revere, Jr. must defend his home while his mo...

From the Vikings to Henry Hudson, the great explorers sailed across uncharted waters duri...

Christopher Columbus set out on August 3, 1492, to find the East by sailing west. Over th...

The colonies were the birthplace of the United States and they were made up of people tha...

Phillis Wheatley was the first black person in America to have a book published, opening ...

The American Indian culture consisted of specific customs and traditions that regulated e...

Pocahontas was the daughter of the great Chief Powhatan. Pocahontas was instrumental in h...

Thomas Jefferson was a gifted writer whose words helped form the country. Although at one...

After problems developed with the Articles of Confederation, America’s leaders wrot...

John Jay served in all three branches of the government. Once the Constitution was writte...

Great Britain passed the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts, which made colonists angry. Ev...

Abigail lived during times which were much more difficult for women than today. Despite t...