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.

The Story of Acadia

3 pages in this part of America First.

The Story of Acadia

Once upon a time, in a land of the far north, which we now call Nova Scotia, there lived a company of French people whose ancestors, in…

The Story of Acadia: French

Because their grandfathers and great-grandfathers had left France to come to America, these people still loved the old country, and…

The Story of Acadia: English

Times of trouble soon loomed up for the Acadians. The land in which they lived became an English possession, and the King of England was…

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