Description: Journeys in Time and Places in Time are atlases as well as storybooks. With thousands of visual and verbal facts, the authors have created a new way to experience the excitement of American history. Meticulously researched, each book contains twenty chronologically ordered "story maps" that capture the imagination. Each detailed spread opens an unforgettable window to the past, where a reader can discover what it was like to live in one place on one day or follow in the footsteps of one person's unique journey. These are books to savor, to learn from, to pore over, and to share.

Americans have always been a people on the move. Journeys in Time maps twenty journeys that have shaped our national past. These are stories of change -- of pilgrims and pioneers, soldiers and children, explorers and adventurers building new lives and finding new worlds. From the trip of a cabin boy who sailed with Columbus to those of a Union soldier and a young migrant farm worker, these journeys changed the lives of those who took them.

Visit the places of America's past, the places where real people led their lives and made American history. Places in Time takes readers to twenty sites that have shaped our national story. Each stopping point is a bird's-eye view of a moment in time. Hear the Great Sun call out to his people at Cahokia, ride with General Benedict Arnold at Saratoga, step out of a sedan chair at Independence Hall, and join the Fergusons as they move into "the city as new as tomorrow".

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