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The World’s Story Volume XIII: The United States

The World’s Story Volume XIII: The United States

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Number of Chapters: 111

Length: 15 hours and 53 minutes

Language: English

This is the thirteenth 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 XIII is the second volume of the history of the United States, exploring topics from the Civil War, the settlement on the West Coast, and new scientific discoveries from the 19th and early 20th centuries. - Summary by Sonia

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An August morning with Farragut, by W. H. Overend, American painter, painting, frontispiece (Sonia)
The United States, Volume II: Part I: The colonies win their freedom: Historical note (Sonia)
Congress and Valley Forge (1777-1778), by John Fiske (Sonia)
Baron Steuben drilling the colonial troops at Valley Forge, by Edwin A. Abbey, American artist, 1852, painting p. 4 (Sonia)
The message of Lydia Darrah (1777), by Elizabeth F. Ellet (Jim Locke)
Mollie Pitcher (1787), by Kate Brownlee Sherwood (Alan Mapstone)
The capture of Major André (1780), by Jared Sparks (Colleen McMahon)
A visit to General Marion (1781), by Charles Carleton Coffin (Colleen McMahon)
When Cornwallis surrendered (1781), By Burton Egbert Stevenson (Rita Boutros)
George III acknowledges the independence of the colonies (1782), by Elkanah Watson (Rita Boutros)
When Washington resigned his commission (1783), by R. M. Devens (Rita Boutros)
The United States, Volume II: Part II: Life in revolutionary days: Historical note (Tomas Peter)
The Meschianza at Philadelphia (1778), by John F. Watson (Adrian Stephens)
A New England Thanksgiving dinner in 1779, by Juliana Smith (Piotr Nater)
A call on Lady Washington in 1780, by Charles D. Platt (Tomas Peter)
How people traveled in revolutionary times (1775-1781), by John Bach McMaster (Piotr Nater)
Abraham Davenport (1780), by John G. Whittier (Alan Mapstone)
The United States, Volume II: Part III: The first years of the nation: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)
America, by Samuel Francis Smith (Tomas Peter)
How Philadelphia celebrated the ratification of the Constitution (1788), by John Bach McMaster (Rita Boutros)
The first Inauguration Day (1789), by John Bach McMaster (Rita Boutros)
The death of Washington (1799) (Devorah Allen)
Red Jacket and the missionary (end of the eighteenth century), by Charles H. L. Johnston (Valerie Marino)
The burning of the Philadelphia (1804), by Cyrus Townssend Brady (Availle)
The trials of the British Minister in Jefferson's administration (1803-1809), by James Parton (Jim Locke)
The Clermont's first advertisement (Sonia)
The United States, Volume II: Part IV: The Louisiana Territory: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)
Napoleon plans to sell Louisiana (1803), by A. E. Winship and Robert W. Wallace (Greg Giordano)
The ''bargain'' purchase of the Louisiana Territory (1803), by James Parton (Greg Giordano)
Taking possession of Louisiana Territory, by Thure de Thulstrupp, painting p. 114 (Tomas Peter)
Exploring the Louisiana Territory, by James Parton (Greg Giordano)
Lewis and Clarke at the source of the Missouri, from their journal (Alan Mapstone)
Sa-Cá-Ga-We-A (1804), by Edna Dean Proctor (Alan Mapstone)
The United States, Volume II: Part V: The war of 1812: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)
What caused the second war with England (1812), by Agnes C. Laut (Jim Locke)
How Winfield Scott rescued the Irishmen, by James Barnes (Jim Locke)
On the capture of the Guerrière, by Philip Freneau (Sonia)
The Shannon and the Chesapeake (1813), by Thomas Tracy Bouvé (Alan Mapstone)
How Perry saved the Northwest (1813), by Charles Morris (Jim Locke)
The battle of Lake Erie, from an engraving, painting p. 148 (Meg Huskin)
The Star-Spangled Banner (1814), by Francis Scott Key (Tomas Peter)
Tecumseh, the Indian Brigadier-General (1813), by Charles H. L. Johnston (Availle)
The Privateers of 1812, by Willis J. Abbot (Rita Boutros)
The ''Horse-Marines'' of 1814, by John Bach McMaster (ToddHW)
The United States, Volume II: Part VI: A period of growth and expansion: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)
The opening of the Erie Canal, by John Bach McMaster (Alan Mapstone)
The guest of the Nation, by Daniel Webster (ToddHW)
The highest peak of the Rocky Mountains, by John Charles Frémont (Devorah Allen)
The first telegram, by R. M. Devens (April6090)
A little Scotch pioneer in Wisconsin (the first half of the nineteenth century), by John Muir (ToddHW)
The United States, Volume II: Part VII: The Mexican War: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)
''Remember the Alamo !'', by Cyrus Townsend Brady (Devorah Allen)
The importance of one vote, by W. H. Vail (thestorygirl)
The storming of Chapultepec (1847), by James Barnes (Adrian Stephens)
The United States, Volume II: Part VIII: California: Historical note (Tomas Peter)
When the English discovered California (1577-1579), by Edward Everett Hale (Piotr Nater)
On the California Coast in the Thirties, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (Colleen McMahon)
How the ''Forty-Niners'' reached California, by Henry Childs Merwin (Piotr Nater)
Early business days in San Francisco (1849-1853), by Henry Childs Merwin (Colleen McMahon)
The United States, Volume II: Part IX: The shadow of Civil War: Historical note (Jim Locke)
The ''Broadcloth Mob'' of Boston (1835), by Harriet Martineau (April6090)
On the underground railway (about 1858), by Francis Grierson (Jim Locke)
The great Lincoln-Douglas debate (1858), by Francis Grierson (mleigh)
Just before the war (1858), by Morris Schaff (IlliniThom)
The last moment of John Brown, by Thomas Hovenden, born in Ireland, 1810, died in America in 1895, painting p. 290 (Sonia)
The United States, Volume II: Part X: From Fort Sumter to Chancellorsville: Historical note (Jim Locke)
The bombardment of Fort Sumter (1861), by Orville J. Victor (Sawyer Rewis)
Battle-Hymn of the Republic (1861), by Julia Ward Howe (Alan Mapstone)
The gathering of the Great Army (1861), by Charles Carleton Coffin (Jim Locke)
Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell (Alan Mapstone)
The Merrimac and the monitor (1862), by John S. Wise (Jim Locke)
Taken prisoner at Shiloh (1862), by Henry M. Stanley (Jim Locke)
The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (United States, 1830-1900), painting p. 346 (Devorah Allen)
Boston Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Alan Mapstone)
The United States, Volume II: Part XI: The turning-point: Historical note (Jim Locke)
''Stonewall'' Jackson by the river (1863), by Mary Johnston (Valerie Marino)
A three-hour truce at Vicksburg (1863), by W. H. Tunnard, of the Confederate Army (Valerie Marino)
Union gunboats on the Mississippi, from an engraving, painting p. 366 (Alan Mapstone)
A drummer-boy at Gettysburg (1863), by Harry M. Kieffer (Sebastian LaVine)
John Burns of Gettysburg (1863), by Bret Harte (Alan Mapstone)
The Gettysburg Address, by Abraham Lincoln (Tomas Peter)
Alabama dressmaking in the days of the Blockade (1861-1865), by Parthenia Antoinette Hague (Colleen McMahon)
General order number 11, by G. C. Brigham, painting p. 390 (Meg Huskin)
The United States, Volume II: Part XII: The end of the struggle: Historical note (Jim Locke)
The Battle of the Crater, Petersburg, by J. D. Woodward, painting p. 406 (Adrian Stephens)
The day of the evacuation of Richmond (1865), by Morris Schaff (Valerie Marino)
Carrying a message to General Lee, by John S. Wise (Jim Locke)
Lee's surrender (1865), by Morris Schaff (Valerie Marino)
America after the Civil War, by William Ewart Gladstone (Greg Giordano)
The United States, Volume II: Part XIII: Stories of the Western Indians: Historical note (Jim Locke)
A Choctaw holiday (about 1850), by George Catlin (Piotr Nater)
What the Indians thought of the White Men, by George Bird Grinnell (Jim Locke)
The Indian story of the Custer tragedy (1877), by James McLaughlin (Jim Locke)
The Temecula Valley, and American Grand Pré (1869), by Helen Hunt Jackson (Availle)
The United States, Volume II: Part XIV: The Spanish War: Historical note (Piotr Nater)
Cuba to Columbia, by Will Carleton (April, 1896) (Alan Mapstone)
The sinking of the Maine (1898), by Willis J. Abbot (April6090)
The battle of Santiago (1898), from the account of a newspaper correspondent (Meg Huskin)
The charge at El Caney, by Frank T. Merrill, painting p. 488 (Meg Huskin)
The flag goes by, by Henry Holcomb Bennett (Tomas Peter)
The United States, Volume II: Part XV: The twentieth century: Historical note (J. M. Smallheer)
The romance of the reindeer (1905), by Mary Gay Humphreys (Piotr Nater)
Totem poles, Alaska, photograph p. 504 (Sonia)
Learning coal-mining, by Joseph Husband (Valerie Marino)
The social value of the telephone in the United States, by Herbert N. Casson (Piotr Nater)
How the Panama railroad was built (1849-1855), by Hugh C. Weir (Availle)
The steam shovel at Panama, by Hugh C. Weir (Availle)
The triumph of the wireless (1909), by Captain J. B. Ranson, R.N.R. (Availle)
The National Red Cross at work, by Constance D. Leupp (Devorah Allen)
Gettysburg fifty years after, photograph p. 558 (Sonia)
''America for me'', by Henry van Dyke (Sonia)
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