Correction and Apology for Story of US post

A big thank you to reader Lisa for asking a question that led me to discover that I had mistakenly associated the TV series coming to the History Channel called The Story of US with the children's history series by Joy Hakim. I cannot now retrace the steps that led me to make that association. Naturally I broadcast this particular post to a wider audience than usual. I can only be thankful that I didn't submit it to a blog carnival. I am very sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused anyone. The rest of the information contained in that post is accurate.

Here is a site that talks more about the upcoming series and an excerpt:

AMERICA THE STORY OF US, coming in 2010 from acclaimed, Emmy Award winning producer/director Jane Root, is an exuberant, unprecedented look at America - how events, small and large, are intrinsically linked to the taming of the wilderness, leading us from the frontier to 21st Century cities, from the Mississippi to the moon, from Jamestown to 9/11 up to present day. AMERICA THE STORY OF US will move though time and space linking key events, people and locations, capturing the vast sweep of American history.

By way of a Make Up Gift, I did find the section of the PBS website that goes along with their production of Freedom: A History of US, the series that IS based on the books by Joy Hakim. These webisodes are documented with a generous amount of indepth articles and picture links. There are also timelines, glossaries, quizzes and a couple of games. I thought at first you could actually see the videos, but I can't find any links to those. The dvds are available as a set for, ahem, $150 here.