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Road Trip: Mid-Atlantic U.S.A.: Travel the back roads of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware for a window into our country's past. This four-day trip through working farms and historic battlefields and down old-fashioned main streets will ignite imaginations young and old.

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By Yolanda Edwards: Two hundred years after their debate over the direction of the young republic, it's clear that we resemble the plugged-in city-and-suburb dwellers that Hamilton divined more than Jefferson's nation of farmers. But driving from Bucks County, with its Revolutionary-era homesteads, to the historic battlefield of Brandywine Valley and through the majestic farmland of Lancaster County, you might wonder if Jefferson had it right after all. This rural, pristine region offers a glimpse of the way America used to be, allowing kids to go beyond textbooks and see where Washington spent the winter with his exhausted army, and where the Amish still live without electricity or cars. The scenery will give you a rest from the urban landscapes—and your child plenty to talk about with his teachers.