Alan Axelrod, PhD, is the author of some 144 books on history, military history, corporate history, leadership, management, career, general business, and other nonfiction. Dr. Axelrod has been a creative consultant for the CW, A&E Network, Discovery Channel, Military Channel, American Heroes Channel, and the PBS "American Experience” series and was keynote speaker at Al Gore's Conference on Excellence in Government (Washington, D.C.), the Annual Conference of the Goizueta School of Business, Emory University (Atlanta), and the 2014 annual meeting of the Colombian state petroleum company, Ecopetrol (Bogota, Colombia). Among his books are Elizabeth I: CEO, Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies and Selling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda.

For the first title in this series, Künstler's paintings bring history to life with vivid, high-action portrayals of the primary events that won Americans their freedom from Britain: the Boston Tea Party, the Siege of Yorktown, Paul Revere's ride, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The epic artworks faithfully chronicle these moments from history and encourage children to look again and again for special details-from the number of stars on George Washington's flag to the style of a soldier's uniform. Together with text by award-winning historian Alan Axelrod, these brilliantly explicit paintings engage a young reader's attention and introduce them to American history through the visual arts.