The new American nation had many challenges to face in not only getting itself taken seriously by the millennia-old nations of the Old World, but in working out the details of a new government experiment in a largely unexplored and untamed land, peopled with fiercely independent and sometimes unruly citizens and hostile indigenous tribes. How she rose to the challenge further defined her character.

The Story of the Great Republic
by H. A. Guerber

The U.S. Constitution for Everyone by Mort Gerberg	The Incredible Journey of Lewis & Clark by Rhoda Blumberg	1812: The War Nobody Won by Albert Marrin
Mill by David Macaulay	The Francis Parkman Reader by Francis Parkman	The California Gold Rush by May McNeer
Daily Life on a Southern Plantation by Paul Erickson	Commander in Chief: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War by Albert Marrin	Albert Marrin's American Era Histories
G. A. Henty's American Era Historical Fiction