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.

Recounts how the black community of Montgomery, Alabama organized and participated in the 1955 bus boycott which ended segregation on public buses.

Discusses the life of the Shawnee warrior, orator, and leader who united a confederacy of Indians in an effort to save Indian land from the advance of white soldiers and settlers.

Describes the efforts of the vast secret network of sympathetic people who helped blacks escape slavery in the South on the Underground Railroad.

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.