Middle-school students will encounter Colonial America through fresh eyes in this comprehensive new series. Archival photographs, period maps, and lively, first-person accounts from explorers, Native Americans, missionaries, slaves and indentured servants, farmers, government officials, and more are seamlessly woven together to create a vibrant and accurate portrait of life in 18 European colonies—not just British but French and Spanish, too. Each book has 30 archival images and period maps.