Looks at the life of Idina Sackville, a woman descended from one of England's oldest families, who created a variety of scandals throughout her life, including her leaving her husband and children for an adventure in Kenya.

Investigates life in the thirteen original colonies, the events that led to the American Revolution, the war itself, and the early years of independence up to the adoption of the Constitution.

After running Jamestown under martial law from 1610-1616, the Virginia Company turned toward representative government in an effort to provide settlers with more control over their own affairs and more incentive to invest further in the colony. From late July 1619 on, propertied white colonists became accustomed to freedoms that would have been unthinkable in England. But those very freedoms also permitted the wholesale and largely unchecked exploitation...