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.

William Penn and the Quakers

2 pages in this part of America First.

William Penn and the Quakers

Among the religious sects which came to England about the time of the settlement of America were the Quakers, or, as they called…

William Penn and the Quakers: Quaker

Soon after Charles II was crowned King of England, William Penn, who had become a Quaker, was given an audience. When Penn entered the…

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