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.

Old Hickory

2 pages in this part of America First.

Old Hickory

Andrew Jackson is one of the most picturesque characters in American history. He was born of Scotch-Irish parents on the…

Old Hickory: Jackson

When Jackson was fourteen years of age, the Revolution was still in progress. The British army had swept through the neighborhood of his…

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