History is more than just dates and names and battles--it's about ideas and power and philosophy. America's history is no different. It's a tale of trade, exploration, adventure, and tension between groups of people with different perspectives and priorities. The problems and challenges we face today are quite different from what America's founders lived through--but their experiences offer us a treasure trove of inspiration and knowledge that we can learn from and apply to our own circumstances. Why did the colonists embrace independence? What had to take place for the public to be ready for a revolution? How do trade and tariffs play into the tensions that provoked political problems between nations? These questions and many more are answered in this set of stories. In them, we can learn the lessons that will help us to stop repeating mistakes from our past.