Provides an account of the yellow fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793, discussing the chaos that erupted when people began evacuating in droves, leaving the city without government, goods, or services, and examining efforts by physicians, the Free African Society, and others to cure and care for the sick.

Traces the history of Pennsylvania from its settlement as one of the original thirteen colonies, through the Revolutionary War and statehood.

Relates the history of the Colony of Pennsylvania from its founding by William Penn in 1681 to statehood in 1787.

In 1793, fifteen-year-old Eugenie de la Roque, her family, and other nobles barely escape the French Revolution and arrive in Pennsylvania, where homesick young Hannah Kimbrell, a Shaker, is among those charged with preparing New France for the aristocrats' arrival.

Examines the history of Pennsylvania, the people, their struggle for equality, and their fight for independence.