Answers questions about what it was like to travel to the Oregon Territory by covered wagon, crossing rivers, mountains, and prairie.

Has any other love story become so enmeshed in our culture as the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet? In fair Verona the families of Montague and Capulet are locked in a long-standing, bitter blood feud when young Romeo Montague slips into a masquerade party at the Capulet's. During the dance he glimpses Juliet, the daughter of the house, and is struck by love at first sight. She returns his passion and they promise each other everlasting love notwithstanding...

Brutus, best friend of the Roman ruler Caesar, reluctantly joins a successful plot to murder Caesar and subsequently destroys himself.

The life of the sixteenth-century Spanish explorer who, after driving out the French, claimed Florida for Spain.

In 1810, Davy Crockett enlists in the Tennessee Volunteers, as they are gearing up for a battle with the Creek Indians.

The life of the woman who became a Revolutionary heroine when she carried water to the soldiers at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778.

The life of the woman who became a Revolutionary heroine when she carriedwater to the soldiers at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778.

Describes what happens to the letter Mrs. Franks mails to her grandson after it is picked up by a mail train.

A collection of five short horror stories from Edgar Allan Poe.