Stories of America

Describes the devastating earthquake and ensuing fire that destroyed much of San Francisco in 1906.

Describes Mary Bethune's struggle to establish a school for black children in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Describes the Pilgrims' first years in Plymouth and the first Thanksgiving.

Describes some of the difficulties that Columbus faced on his first voyage to the New World and what he found at the journey's end.

Explores the friendship between naturalist John Muir and President Theodore Roosevelt and how it brought about government protection of America's wilderness.

Describes the life of Father Junipero Serra, a Spanish priest who established missions in California in the late eighteenth century, and discusses the lack of understanding between him and the Indians he came to convert.

Describes the successful efforts of concerned citizens to stop construction of a jetport that would have destroyed the Florida Everglades.

Describes the struggle of Seminole chief and warrior Osceola to save his people from being forced off their land in Florida.

A biography of the woman who became California's first native-born nun, describing a life that spanned the transitional period from Spanish rule to American statehood.