This excellent resource is a collection of commissioned maps that show and discuss key events in North American history. The book’s nine chapters span a time from the prehistoric era and lands predominantly inhabited and controlled by Indigenous peoples to the 21st century. In addition to exceptionally detailed maps, each cartographic resource contains time lines, objects, color illustrations or photographs, and historical details. Selected topics include colonial British America, the Trail of Tears, exploration, the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, World War II, empires, the Kennedy era, the space race, social change movements and protests, and modern Mexico. The book also notes important and pivotal individuals or groups, such as the Nahua woman interpreter known as Malintzin or La Malinche, English explorer Francis Drake, theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, ancient Americans, the Iroquois and Six Nations peoples, the Mayans, the Aztecs, and women pirates. There’s also a focus on products such as chocolate and bows and arrows. VERDICT A robust visually enriched resource that offers detailed lessons about geography, history, and the people who have shaped North America over millennia.