• Founding Fathers - 1 bks.

One hundred year before the Revolutionary War, Nathaniel Bacon, a landowner on Virginia's frontier, rebelled against the colony's ruling class, which was personified in Governor Si …

This Founding Father is famous for his witty sayings - and here's a puzzle to unscramble some of the most well known of them. Discover why Franklin invented the eyeglasses we calle …

Young adventurers learn about the settling of America while enjoying activities like stitching a sampler, pitching horseshoes, making an almanac, churning butter, and more.

Colonial Philadelphia was the second most important English-speaking city in the world in the first half of the 1700s. In this issue, we look at this important colonial city and th …

Read all about this prominent leader in the fight for American independence who was also a writer, printer, publisher, businessman, scientist, inventor, politician, diplomat and in …

In 1754, George Washington gained some valuable - and painful - military experience. He has the dubious distinction of being the leader of a group of men who fired the first shots …

Step into the past and observe what it was like to live in an 1830s New England farming community with this illustrative issue that focuses on a living history museum. Interviews w …

The origin myth of the first Thanksgiving gives us a shared sense of what it means to be American. This issue also follows the course of one woman’s battle with tuberculosis, and d …

Personal accounts written at sea illuminate life as lived in mid-19th century on whaling ships and in whaling ports. This close look at the history of whaling, whale characteristic …

Welcome to Colonial America, when life was very different from today-- but in some ways the same. Just like you, Colonial kids had chores to do and games to play.And just like toda …

In the 1600s, Roger Williams' warm friendship with the Wampanoag and Narragansett Indians in New England was remarkable. He established the new colony of Providence in what would l …