Stories of America

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.

Recounts Anne Hutchinson's struggle with the Puritan Church over its rigid theocratic control of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, her trial for heresy and sedition, and banishment from the colony.

Describes Coronado's search for gold in the American Southwest and his interaction with the Native Americans there.

Uses the experiences of an unemployed steel worker and his family in Pittsburgh to describe the events of the economic depression that gripped the country from 1929 through 1933.

Describes the experiences of the "Little Rock Nine," the first black students to begin the integration of schools in Arkansas in 1957.