Introduces important people and events in American history, highlighting individuals who contributed to the nation's development over the centuries. Illustrated with drawings, paintings, and period photographs.

Colonial America -- The American Revolution -- The early United States -- The Civil War era -- Heroes of the West -- The early twentieth century -- America since 1950. John Smith, Squanto, Anne Hutchinson, William Penn, Daniel Boone, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, Molly Pitcher, Francis Marion, John Paul Jones, Tecumseh, Stephen Decatur, Oliver Hazard Perry, Dolley Madison, Andrew Jackson, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Clara Barton, Jim Beckwourth, Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickok, Chief Joseph, Annie Oakley, John Pershing, Jane Addams, Robert Peary, Mother Jones, Jim Thorpe, Charles Lindbergh, Douglas MacArthur, Audie Murphy, Jackie Robinson, Jonas Salk, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Neil Armstrong, Rachel Carson,H. Norman Schwarzkopf.