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Text and accompanying photographs present a collection of American poetry that celebrates over 200 years of American life and history as illustrated by fine art from the collection of the National Museum of American Art.

Presents selections from the title work which features poets' representations of seven geographical regions of the United States, and includes visits with youngsters from around the country, and reviws of related books.

Presents an illustrated celebration of the history, people, and natural and manmade wonders of the United States of America.

Presents the 1893 poem written by Katharine Lee Bates in celebration of the beauty of America, and features illustrations by Bates' great-great-grandnephew, as well as the musical notation for the song inspired by the poem.

An illustrated version of the well-known poem describing the swift ride through the Virginia countryside of Union General Sheridan to rejoin his troops before the decisive battle of Cedar Creek in 1864.

An illustrated edition of the poem describing Barbara Fritchie's dramatic stand with the Union flag against the rebel troops invading her town.

A collection of poems on such important events in the history of the United States as the Pilgrims' landing in Massachusetts, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, Seward's Folly, the San Francisco earthquake, and more.

A collection of poems and lyrics from several songs provides a look at the United States, from colonial times to the present.

Expressions of American life by Whitman, Riley, Field, Longfellow, Dunbar, folk sources, Indian tribes, and a host of others.

A collection of poetic portraits of sixteen famous Americans from Paul Revere to Neil Armstrong, by such authors as Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, and X.

A collection of sixty-five original poems that depict people and events throughout the history of the United States.

The story of America told through poetry, selected by one of the country's foremost historians.

Examines the events and people that have shaped America, providing portraits of figures such as Chief Tecumseh, President Abraham Lincoln, and musician Jimi Hendrix, and featuring lyrical, free-verse poetic text.

A collection of poems that depict people and events throughout the history of slavery in the United States.

Nineteen poems reveal life in colonial America as seen through the eyes of a teacher and her class when they go on field trips to historic sites from the Revolutionary War era.