A look at the survival of American soldiers while camped at Valley Forge during the American Revolution.

When Albert complains of a toothache, no one in his family believes him, until his grandmother takes the time to really listen to him.

Explores the social, political, cultural, and religious life in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, destroyed in a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. and not rediscovered until the late seventeenth century.

Presents the selection from Ecclesiastes which relates that everything in life has its own time and season; depicts each verse with a different style of art from around the world.

A boy discovers he is shrinking but does not know the cause or cure.

Letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews, ballads, newspaper articles, and speeches depict life and events in the American colonies in the second half of the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on the years of the Revolutionary War.