American heritage junior library

Surveys the golden era of steamboats, from 1800-1875. Photographs and text describe the Mississippi River, and the captains and passengers of the steamboats.

The history of the Pilgrims from the time of the Reformation, when the sect was born, to the end of the Plymouth Colony in 1692.

Profusely illustrated text discusses the history of the first English colony in North America.

Discusses the problems involved in building the Erie Canal and the importance of this waterway to the development of the United States.

Story of the building of the ships and the battles fought by them, including an account of "the famous battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac at Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 9, 1862"--Foreword.

Paintings, prints, drawings, posters, photographs, and narrative create the excitement of a circus's coming to town.

The history of the Pilgrims from the time of the Reformation, when the sect was born, to the end of the Plymouth Colony in 1692.

Here, in one volume, a history of the Plains Indians and their relations with white men is combined with an account of the traditional customs of these active, picturesque folk.

Thomas Jefferson was a legislator, a diplomat, an executive and also a farmer, a scientist, an architect, an inventor, and a patron of education and the arts..