Stories of America

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.

Follows a young Jewish immigrant from Poland as she struggles to build a new life in America and fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer.

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.

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

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

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