Designed for the first semester of Exploring America, this volume has seventy-five lessons going from early European exploration to Reconstruction after the Civil War.

Literature titles to accompany this volume are:
The Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne
King of the Wild Frontier: An Autobiography of Davy Crockett
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Douglass
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe
Co. Aytch – Watkins
Humorous Stories and Sketches – Twain