Exploring America's Historic Places
- ISBN-10
- 0792242327
- ISBN-13
- 9780792242321
- Category
- History / United States / State & Local / General
- Pages
- 200
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- National Geographic Society
Description
Native Americans, exploration and settlement, colonial living. The Revolution, westward expansion. Struggle and strife and the promise of a new century. The path of that history traced from the remnants of the Great Native American cities to the Industrial Age streets of New York.
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