The Great American Documents: Volume I: 1620-1830

In the Great American Documents series, the teacher and graphic-book author Ruth
Ashby and the renowned illustrator Ernie Colón tell the story of the United States through the major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays that shaped it.

The Great American Documents: Volume 1 introduces as series narrator none other than Uncle Sam, who walks us through twenty essential documents. Each document gets a chapter, in which Uncle Sam explains its key passages, its origins, how it came to be written, and its impact. This graphic primer is an
indispensable resource for students and anyone else who wants the facts of American history close at hand.