Short Stories from American History

From the arrival of the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock through the War of 1812, Short Stories from American History imaginatively chronicles acts of heroism and ingenuity performed by patriotic men, children, and especially those performed by women. These vignettes depict scenes of valor from the Revolutionary war, both friendly and fraught encounters between the Pilgrims and Natives, and other moments of great historical import. Here the reader is given a glimpse of the many difficulties that early settlers faced and all that they did to meet them courageously.