Introduces the European immigrants who came to North America as explorers and settlers, their interactions with native people, and the wars that ultimately led to their independence.

Discusses the code talkers who were very important to the operations in World War II.

This particular title in the series discusses women's roles in the American Revolution in a thematic way. For example, there are women who served the cause by remaining homesuch as Sarah Franklin Bache who founded an association to support the troops, and women who went to warsuch as camp follower Sarah Osborn who became known as Molly Pitcher. Daring women who disguised themselves as men in order to fight, and women who served as spies for both sides...