18th century

An old coin in The Treasure Chest transports twins Felix and Maisie to the island of St. Croix in 1772, where they meet seventeen-year-old Alexander Hamilton who is about to embark on a journey to New York.

Fourteen-year-old Jeff Wells and his robot friend Norby are suddenly transported back to 1785 in France, where they become involved with a priceless necklace, royal politics, and the accidental creation of alternate futures for Earth.

Orphan Catherine "Cat" Royal, living at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly hidden in the theater, which unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist, and involves her in the street gangs of Covent Garden and the world of nobility.

A dual biography of Moses and John Brown, two Rhode Island brothers divided by the institution of slavery in the days before and during the American Revolution.

A lighthearted, concise overview of the Enlightenment that describes, with the aid of cartoon illustrations, the people, events, and concepts that shaped this seventeenth-century intellectual movement.

Material divided to describe the era according to class differentiation.

Drawings and text introduce the history of costume, tracing the major fashion developments of the period. Includes a glossary.

Discusses the history of eighteenth-century Europe and her colonies overseas.

Traces the split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on the mainland.