From 1971 to 1978 the author, a Dane, hitchiked across more than 100,000 miles of America. This volume, written at the journey's end, contains some 700 of the photographs he took, and describes his odyssey.

While reading Pictures in America, students will learn about the images and symbols that have come to represent America as a whole. This 32-page title uses a variety of teaching components to help young readers strengthen their reading comprehension skills. The Symbols of Freedom series will allow students to explain events or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause versus effect. Each title features photographs, maps, and informational sidebars that work with a Show What You Know section to help readers build their understanding of the topic.

Surveys the evolution of daily life in America in the last century, collecting 650 images from the archives of LIFE magazine that visually record significant changes along such themes as parenting, machines, entertainment, fashion, homes, jobs, and shopping.

Gruesome photographs document the victims of lynchings and the society that allowed mob violence.

"Images of America: Through the European Looking-Glass" explores the construction, transfer, manipulation, refraction and de-construction of an array of tantalizing, sometimes troubling, but always fascinating views of those elusive United States, as seen by Europeans through the ages.