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Footholds in a new world: Jamestown, Dutch on the Hudson, Plymouth, New England Puritans --
The colonial frontier: Williamsburg, Tidewater Plantations, The Colonial Southland, Old Salem --
In pursuit of liberty: Boston to Bunker Hill, Ben Franklin's Philadelphia, The world of George Washington, Mr. Jefferson of Monticello --
Americans spread out: Wealth from the sea, Utopias in the wilderness, Santa Fe to San Francisco, Wagons west --
Hallowed ground: Cane and cotton kingdoms, Sumter to Appomattox, Travels with Lincoln --
Taming the west: Gold fever, The cow town --
Mechanizing a nation: Freedom's capital.

As a hostess pokes the blazing brands. time begins to blur in the visitor's imagination. Is this today - or two hundred years ago? Such is the power of a house, a trail, a church, a battlefield, an islet in the stream of years where history dwells undisturbed.

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