Intended for advanced junior high and high school students, this highly detailed American history textbook offers a deep and engaging study of the early years of the American experiment. It additionally incorporates a thorough education in civics, including an extensive exploration of the formation of the Constitution and the government it establishes. Placing special emphasis on the formative and often neglected colonial era, Journey Into the Foundations of America covers the period from the first European explorations to the year 1914, and contains everything a homeschool family needs for a full year of history and civics studies. Building upon several history textbooks from the early twentieth century, this book preserves a level of rigor that was common in the history textbooks of previous generations, but has become conspicuously absent in more recent years. Of particular note, students will be benefit from tackling the book's hundreds of thought-provoking questions and six "document studies" that challenge them to analyze the writings of some of history's most impactful contributors.