Westward Ho!

by Lucille Recht Penner

Published 21 October 1997
Depicts the settlement of the American west during the 1800s.

Pilgrims at Plymouth

by Lucille Recht Penner

Published 17 September 1996

Liberty!

by Lucille Recht Penner

Published 1 July 2002
How the Revolutionary War Began

The American colonists were fed up with British law. They refused to buy English goods. They formed a militia of tradesmen and farmers ready to fight at a moment’s notice. Most importantly, they joined together. All 13 colonies sent representatives to decide whether they should form a new country. That group wrote the Declaration of Independence, the document that summed up a revolution.