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
Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting, frontispieceThe United States Part I: Discovery: Historical noteThe great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the SagasColumbus (1492), by Joaquin MillerVerrazzano's letter to the king (1524)The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical notePonce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. OberA Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de VacaThe story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De SotoWhen De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore IrvingThe burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore IrvingThe United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical noteThe seven cities of the wilderness, by John FiskeHow the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell PruddenHow Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F. LummisThe storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. LummisThe United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical noteThe Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George BancroftThe lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert SoutheyJohn Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John SmithPocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painting p. 122The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary JohnstonLife on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March TappanThe planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, painting p. 136How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend BradyThe United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical noteWhen Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John BreretonThe departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, painting p. 160The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot GriffisThe challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. 174Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel HawthorneHow Providence won its name (1636), by George BancroftThe Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel HawthorneQuestions that the Indians asked John EliotThe United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical noteThe first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John FiskeHow feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot GriffisSocial life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot GriffisWouter van Twiller, governor of New Netherland, by Washington IrvingThe edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter, 1836-1905, painting p. 218How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington IrvingWilliam Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March TappanPenn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, painting p. 238The United States Part VII: Stories of the Puritans: Historical noteSunday in the New England colonies (seventeenth century), by Alice Morse EarleCalling a minister three centuries ago (1652), by Eva March TappanThe king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead WhittierHow Connecticut saved her charter (1687), by W. H. Carpenter and T. S. ArthurSir William Phips, treasure-seeker and soldier (latter part of the seventeenth century), by Charles C. B. SeymourWere there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John FiskeThe United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical noteThe mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter ScottThe mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herselfThe death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. HollisterThe capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis ParkmanThe fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams DrakeThe United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical noteWhy France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. GarfieldWashington's first commission (1753-54), by George BancroftBraddock's defeat (1755), by John FiskeWhen Israel Putnam was captured by the Indians, an incident of the French and Indian war (1758), by Oliver W. B. PeabodyThe conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell CatherwoodThe prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander HenryThe United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical noteEveryday life in the early colonies, by George Cary EgglestonBlackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John FiskeJudge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel SewallAn eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. PauldingThe dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green WinslowThe United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical noteBenjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James PartonThe Boston massacre (1770), by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Boston Tea-Party (1773), by John FiskePatrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, American artist, 1817-1895, painting p. 456''Give me liberty, or give me death !'' (1775), by Patrick HenryThe United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical noteThe first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett HaleGrandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry, by Oliver Wendell HolmesWhen Washington took command (1775), by Henry Cabot LodgeHow Fort Moultrie was held for the colonies (1776), by George BancroftThe defense of Fort Moultrie, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting p. 494The Declaration of Independence (1776), by Thomas Wentworth HigginsonNathan Hale (1776), by Francis Miles FinchHow Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward EverettWhy Cornwallis failed to ''bag the old fox'' (1777), by John FiskeThe marching song of Stark's men (1777), by Edward Everett HaleBurgoyne's surrender (1777), by John FiskeThe United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical noteHow Daniel Boone saved Boonesborough (1775), by Charles C. B. SeymourA campaign through the water (1778), by George Rogers ClarkHow the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend BradyThe first salute to the flag (1778), by Sarah Orne JewettJohn Paul Jones in the revolution (1775-1781), by Joel Tyler HeadleyThe fight between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, by Walt Whitman, from an old engraving, painting p. 588
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