1. We Were There on the Oregon Trail William O. Steele 1955 {*}

2. We Were There at the Battle of Gettysburg Alida Sims Malkus 1955 {*}

3. We Were There at the Boston Tea Party Robert N. Webb 1956 

4. We Were There with Byrd at the South Pole Charles S. Strong 1956 

5. We Were There at the Normandy Invasion Clayton Knight 1956 

6. We Were There in the Klondike Gold Rush Benjamin Appel 1956 

7. We Were There with the Mayflower Pilgrims Robert N. Webb 1955 {*} 

8. We Were There with the Pony Express William O. Steele 1956 

9. We Were There with the California Forty-Niners Stephen Holt 1960 

10. We Were There with Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys Robert N. Webb 1956 

11. We Were There with Jean Lafitte at New Orleans Iris Vinton 1957 {*} 

12. We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run Jim Kjelgaard 1957 

13. We Were There at the Battle for Bataan Benjamin Appel 1957 

14. We Were There on the Chisholm Trail Ross McLaury Taylor 1957 

15. We Were There at Pearl Harbor Felix Sutton 1957 

16. We Were There with Richard the Lionhearted Robert N. Webb 1957 {*} 

17. We Were There when Washington Won at Yorktown Earl Schenck Miers 1958 

18. We Were There at the Battle of the Alamo Margaret Cousins 1958 {*} 

19. We Were There at the Opening of the Erie Canal Enid Lamonte Meadowcroft 1958 {*} 

20. We Were There at the Battle of Lexington and Concord Felix Sutton 1958 {*} 

21. We Were There with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea Robert N. Webb 1958 

22. We Were There with Lewis and Clark James Munves 1959 

23. We Were There when Grant Met Lee at Appomattox Earl Schenck Miers 1960 {*} 

24. We Were There at the Battle of Britain Clayton and Katherine Sturges Knight 1959 

25. We Were There with Cortes and Montezuma Benjamin Appel 1959 

26. We Were There with the California Rancheros Stephen Holt 1960 

27. We Were There with Caeser's Legions Robert N. Webb 1960 

28. We Were There at the First Airplane Flight Felix Sutton 1960 

29. We Were There on the Santa Fe Trail Ross McLaury Taylor 1960 

30. We Were There with Charles Darwin on H.M.S. Beagle Philip Eisenberg 1960 

31. We Were There at the Driving of the Golden Spike David Shepherd 1960 

32. We Were There at the Opening of the Atomic Era James Munves 1959 

33. We Were There with the Lafayette Escadrille Clayton and Katherine Knight 1961 {*} 

34. We Were There at the Battle of the Bulge David Shepherd 1961 

35. We Were There on the Nautilus Robert N. Webb 1961 {*} 

36. We Were There with Lincoln in the White House Earl Schenck Miers 1963

The books were written by a number of different authors, each writing from one to seven of the books; the authors included Benjamin Appel, Jim Kjelgaard, Earl Schenck Miers, William O. Steele, and others. Each book's byline also lists a separate "historical consultant," who was ostensibly a specialist in the historic topic covered by that particular book.

The historical consultants were typically college professors or, in the case of war-related stories, retired military officers; among the more noteworthy consultants for the series were the historians Bruce Catton, Walter Prescott Webb and A. B. Guthrie, Jr.. The books are illustrated with black-and-white line art, with color drawings on the dust jacket.