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Working on a research project for school, Greg is zapped into the Internet and plopped down at the historic site of Jamestown, where colonial interpreters teach him about the settlers' early struggles to survive, the start of the tobacco trade, and the way of life of the Powhatan Native Americans.

Examines the impact of European colonization on Native American tribes including co-existence and trade, the struggles over land ownership and the effects of European imports, the forced removal of various native peoples, and the efforts of Native Americans to maintain their culture and language.

Presents an "interview" with Christopher Columbus, in which the explorer describes the goals of his four voyages to the New World and discusses their successes and failures, covering such topics as his avoidance of mutiny on his first voyage and his encounters with the Taino, a native people of the Caribbean.

Examines the history of invention in the areas of communication, transportation, agriculture, and medicine, looks at the influence of inventions on society, explains patents, and discusses inventions as a process of improving on the ideas of others.

Uses reenactments, dramatic readings, and interviews with historians to examine significant events in the political history of the U.

Students in grades five through eight travel along as visitors from outer space investigate Earth's water cycle, with discussion of where water comes from, how it is recycled and transported from place to place, and the role of the sun and atmosphere in the process.

Describes the explorations, conquests, accomplishments, and failures of sixteenth-century Spanish explorers Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Juan Ponce de Leon, and Hernando de Soto in North America.

Explores archaeological sites and artifacts, art, architecture, and writings to provide insights into life in the ancient African civilizations of the Swahili and Great Zimbabwe, discussing the people and cultures of the East African empires.

Provides insights into the explorations of the American frontier through a dramatized interview with Kit Carson in which he discusses his own accomplishments, as well as the activities of such frontiersmen as Daniel Boone, Zebulon Pike, Jedediah Smith, and James Beckwourth.

Examines the causes and effects of uprisings in Russia in the early twentieth century, and discusses why people were so receptive to the message of communist leader Vladimir Lenin.

Examines the causes and effects of uprisings in China throughout the twentieth century, and discusses the efforts of Mao Zedong to create a society free of inequality, poverty, and foreign control.