Describes the founding and history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and discusses related topics including Puritan clothing, the Wampanoags, Increase Mather, scurvy, and Paul Revere's ride.
Tells the story of the Dutch colony known as New Netherland and includes information on related topics and figures such as seventeenth-century Dutch ships, the Hudson River, Native Americans, and Peter Stuyvesant.
Traces the history and development of vehicles and other machines used in warfare, from the Sumerian chariots to the computer-controlled devices of the twenty-first century.
Noah, setting out for the Klondike in search of gold with his father in the 1890s, smuggles his cat Shadow into his pack against Pa's wishes, but the pet turns out to be just what they need to survive. Includes a historical note about the Klondike Stampede.