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The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States

The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States

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Number of Chapters: 96

Length: 17 hours and 10 minutes

Language: English

This is the twelfth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Part XII compiles stories about the early history of the United States, starting with the first explorators, the fights with the native Americans, the early settlers and culminating with the struggle for independence from the European leaders. - Summary by Sonia

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Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting, frontispiece (Sonia)
The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note (Sonia)
The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas (Piotr Nater)
Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller (Alan Mapstone)
Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524) (Piotr Nater)
The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note (Kristine Bekere)
Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober (April6090)
A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca (Piotr Nater)
The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto (Rita Boutros)
When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving (Rita Boutros)
The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving (Rita Boutros)
The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note (Tomas Peter)
The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske (Piotr Nater)
How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden (April6090)
How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F. Lummis (Sonrisa Jones)
The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis (Piotr Nater)
The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical note (Kristine Bekere)
The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft (Piotr Nater)
The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey (Availle)
John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith (Jim Locke)
Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painting p. 122 (Alan Mapstone)
The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston (Sonrisa Jones)
Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan (Availle)
The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, painting p. 136 (Lynda Marie Neilson)
How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend Brady (bellanelson875)
The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note (Kristine Bekere)
When Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John Brereton (April6090)
The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, painting p. 160 (Alan Mapstone)
The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis (Devorah Allen)
The challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Jim Locke)
The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. 174 (Tomas Peter)
Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Colleen McMahon)
How Providence won its name (1636), by George Bancroft (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Questions that the Indians asked John Eliot (Sonia)
The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note (Kristine Bekere)
The first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John Fiske (Kristine Bekere)
How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis (Piotr Nater)
Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis (Availle)
Wouter van Twiller, governor of New Netherland, by Washington Irving (ToddHW)
The edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter, 1836-1905, painting p. 218 (Alan Mapstone)
How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving (Jim Locke)
William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March Tappan (BettyB)
Penn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, painting p. 238 (Monika M. C.)
The United States Part VII: Stories of the Puritans: Historical note (BettyB)
Sunday in the New England colonies (seventeenth century), by Alice Morse Earle (Jim Locke)
Calling a minister three centuries ago (1652), by Eva March Tappan (Devorah Allen)
The king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead Whittier (Alan Mapstone)
How Connecticut saved her charter (1687), by W. H. Carpenter and T. S. Arthur (Jim Locke)
Sir William Phips, treasure-seeker and soldier (latter part of the seventeenth century), by Charles C. B. Seymour (Jim Locke)
Were there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John Fiske (Availle)
The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note (BettyB)
The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott (Rita Boutros)
The mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300 (Rita Boutros)
The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself (April6090)
The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister (Cliona Woodbyrne)
The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman (Jim Locke)
The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake (Rita Boutros)
The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note (BettyB)
Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield (Availle)
Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft (Jim Locke)
Braddock's defeat (1755), by John Fiske (Rita Boutros)
When Israel Putnam was captured by the Indians, an incident of the French and Indian war (1758), by Oliver W. B. Peabody (Jim Locke)
The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (Piotr Nater)
The prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander Henry (Jim Locke)
The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note (Kristine Bekere)
Everyday life in the early colonies, by George Cary Eggleston (Piotr Nater)
Blackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John Fiske (Tomas Peter)
Judge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel Sewall (Jim Locke)
An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding (ToddHW)
The dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green Winslow (April6090)
The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note (Kristine Bekere)
Benjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James Parton (Parsa2020)
The Boston massacre (1770), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Jim Locke)
The Boston Tea-Party (1773), by John Fiske (Availle)
Patrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, American artist, 1817-1895, painting p. 456 (Alan Mapstone)
''Give me liberty, or give me death !'' (1775), by Patrick Henry (Tomas Peter)
The United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical note (BettyB)
The first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett Hale (Jim Locke)
Grandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Alan Mapstone)
When Washington took command (1775), by Henry Cabot Lodge (BettyB)
How Fort Moultrie was held for the colonies (1776), by George Bancroft (Colleen McMahon)
The defense of Fort Moultrie, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting p. 494 (Alan Mapstone)
The Declaration of Independence (1776), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (April6090)
Nathan Hale (1776), by Francis Miles Finch (Alan Mapstone)
How Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward Everett (Parsa2020)
Why Cornwallis failed to ''bag the old fox'' (1777), by John Fiske (April6090)
The marching song of Stark's men (1777), by Edward Everett Hale (Alan Mapstone)
Burgoyne's surrender (1777), by John Fiske (Jim Locke)
The United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical note (Tomas Peter)
How Daniel Boone saved Boonesborough (1775), by Charles C. B. Seymour (Jim Locke)
A campaign through the water (1778), by George Rogers Clark (Kristine Bekere)
How the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend Brady (Jim Locke)
The first salute to the flag (1778), by Sarah Orne Jewett (Jim Locke)
John Paul Jones in the revolution (1775-1781), by Joel Tyler Headley (Jim Locke)
The fight between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, by Walt Whitman, from an old engraving, painting p. 588 (Sonia)
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