America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

Lafayette's Return to America

2 pages in this part of America First.

Lafayette's Return to America

In 1824, Lafayette, now an old man, longed to visit once more the people of America, and to see again the scenes of his youthful glory…

Lafayette's Return to America: Yorktown

A few weeks after his arrival, Lafayette went to Yorktown to attend the celebration of the anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis…

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