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"Wanted to let you know how much we have enjoyed American Heroes. My son especially likes the stories on the computer. I don't have to stay after him to read..."

If you would like to help your children learn more about American history in a fascinating way, these new studies should help meet that desire. With interesting stories about Americans like George Washington, Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, and many more, this book will help students in 3rd - 9th grades enjoy American history while laying a sound foundation for future study.

The stories used in these studies were originally published in the early 1900's, and were written almost 100 years closer to the lives of these heroes than those written today. The stories are all here, along with some added features that have been included to help with the learning adventure. The study is in Adobe Reader pdf format, so the pages are printable for each student to have his/her own copy of the stories, allowing them to read along with you or on their own. They can put these stories in their own notebooks, along with other information that they want to include from the Internet resources that are included in the study ( they are clickable). Useful with 4th-8th grades.

Perfect for a read-aloud book, this will offer interesting insight into many important people and places in American history. With 29 stories (160 pages), your children can work on one each week for 29 weeks, or read one story/study daily to learn more about American history and heroes over a six week period. Here are the story titles:

Columbus, Who First Crossed the Atlantic Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan, Who Found the Way Around the World
Francis Drake, Seaman of Queen Elizabeth
John Smith, The Father of Virginia
Samuel de Champlain, The Founder of Quebec
Miles Standish, Commander-in-Chief of the Pilgrims
Peter Stuyvesant, Last Dutch Governor of New York
King Phillip, Chief of the Wampanoags
The Men Who Explored the Mississippi
William Penn, Who Founded Pennsylvania
George Washington, The Young Soldier
James Wolfe, Who Captured Quebec
When Pontiac Besieged Detroit
The First Day of the Revolution
Israel Putnam, Soldier of the Revolution
A Christmas Surprise
A Winter at Valley Forge
How "Mad Anthony" Took Stony Point
How the "Swamp Fox" Made the British Miserable
George Rogers Clark, Who Gave Three States to the Union
John Paul Jones and His Sea Fights for America
Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer
Lewis and Clark, Who Showed the Way to the Pacific
Oliver Hazard Perry, Who Captured a British Fleet
Dolly Madison, Who Guarded the Nation's Treasures
The Star-Spangled Banner
David Crockett, The Tennessee Pioneer
Christopher Carson, Trapper and Guide
Abraham Lincoln, Pioneer and President