When his father takes a job as a doctor with the Panama Canal project in 1911, William, who is fascinated with the canal, gets to learn about it firsthand, while he also learns about life from a Jamaican girl who has become his best friend.
A history of women in the United States from the seventeenth century to modern times, discussing the roles they have played in society and historical events and focusing on individuals from Pocahontas to Sandra Day O'Connor.
