Learn all about America's first settlements and the struggles and people who made this country what it is today. The size and shape of America wasn't always as we know it today. Take a look at the people who made this growth possible, all for the promise of liberty and land.
Documentary on the creation of the F. W. Woolworth 5 & 10 cent store empire by Frank Winfield Woolworth, and how his granddaughter Barbara Hutton spent the fortune her grandfather had accumulated.
The narrator recalls the sights and sounds of the street vendors who came to her house when she was a child and the lessons she learned about being fair and honest.
Explores the lives of people from the Middle Ages, using historical re-enactments and dramatic footage to look at the merchant class, with discussion of guilds, and the role of merchants in the building of towns and cathedrals.
