History? why? -- Away with time -- In the beginning -- Feature: old mysteries and new discoveries -- How the first Americans became indians -- Feature: some thoughts on dinosaurs and the Earth -- Put on your earmuffs -- Feature: people of the far north -- Cliff dwellers and others -- The show-offs -- Feature: life on the northwest coast -- Taking a tour -- Plains Indians are not plain at all -- Feature: buffalo on the Great Plains -- Feature: how did they say mom? -- Mound for mound, those are heavy hills -- Feature: digging up dirt on the mound builders -- Indians of the eastern forests -- People of the long house -- Let's turn north -- Feature: the vikings at L' Anse Aux Meadows -- Feature: how do you know what you know? -- Feature: navigation instruments -- The power of the press -- A boy named Christopher has a dream -- A new land is "discovered" -- Feature: from Columbus's pen -- The next voyage -- Stowaways: worms and a dog -- Sailing around the world -- What's in a name? -- Feature: the first map to include "America" -- About beliefs and ideas -- Feature: stories of how the world began -- New Spain -- Feature: ways of reading and writing -- Feature: a very short history of Mesoamerica -- Feature: Tenochititlán -- Ponce de León, Pizarro, and Spanish colonies -- Gloom, doom, and a bit of cheer -- North of New Spain -- Looking for Cibola with Coronado -- Conquistadors: California to Florida -- A place called Santa Fe -- Las Casa Cares -- The big picture -- From Spain to England to France -- France in America: pirates and adventurers -- Rain, ambush, and murder -- New France -- Feature: traveling by canoe and portage -- Elizabeth and friends -- Utopia in America -- Lost: a colony -- Feature: from John White's log -- An armada is a fleet of ships -- The end: keep reading.
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