The New Americans

by Betsy Maestro

Published 19 March 1998

A basic guide to voting and the election process in the United States.


A More Perfect Union

by Betsy Maestro and Giulio Maestro

Published 1 August 1987
Describes how the Constitution was drafted and ratified.

A New Nation

by Betsy Maestro

Published 1 September 2009


Discusses both hypothetical and historical voyages of discovery to America by the Phoenicians, Saint Brendan of Ireland, the Vikings, and such later European navigators as Columbus, Cabot, and Magellan.

Exploration and Conquest

by Betsy Maestro

Published 1 September 1994
Describes how the lives of America's native inhabitants are changed forever by European explorers who claim the land and its resources for their countries.

Struggle for a Continent

by Betsy Maestro

Published 5 September 2000
Discusses the relations between the European colonists and the Native Americans, the disputes between settlers from France, England, and Spain, and the role these conflicts played in the history of North America.

Liberty or Death

by Betsy Maestro

Published 1 September 2005

More Perfect Union LB

by Betsy Maestro

Published 13 August 1987