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World's Story Volume XII: The United States

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World's Story Volume XII: The United States

by Eva March Tappan

English· 17:10:08· 96 chapters
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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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting, frontispiece

    01:59
  2. Chapter 2

    The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note

    01:32
  3. Chapter 3

    The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas

    10:26
  4. Chapter 4

    Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller

    02:38
  5. Chapter 5

    Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524)

    14:28
  6. Chapter 6

    The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note

    02:02
  7. Chapter 7

    Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober

    10:49
  8. Chapter 8

    A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca

    13:40
  9. Chapter 9

    The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto

    09:02
  10. Chapter 10

    When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving

    17:21
  11. Chapter 11

    The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving

    07:43
  12. Chapter 12

    The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note

    01:23
  13. Chapter 13

    The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske

    06:32
  14. Chapter 14

    How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden

    27:20
  15. Chapter 15

    How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F. Lummis

    08:57
  16. Chapter 16

    The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis

    28:29
  17. Chapter 17

    The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical note

    02:41
  18. Chapter 18

    The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft

    22:01
  19. Chapter 19

    The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey

    10:57
  20. Chapter 20

    John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith

    13:08
  21. Chapter 21

    Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painting p. 122

    02:53
  22. Chapter 22

    The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston

    15:05
  23. Chapter 23

    Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan

    09:56
  24. Chapter 24

    The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, painting p. 136

    02:48
  25. Chapter 25

    How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend Brady

    22:45
  26. Chapter 26

    The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note

    02:12
  27. Chapter 27

    When Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John Brereton

    15:46
  28. Chapter 28

    The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, painting p. 160

    02:41
  29. Chapter 29

    The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis

    10:09
  30. Chapter 30

    The challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    08:46
  31. Chapter 31

    The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. 174

    01:42
  32. Chapter 32

    Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    15:26
  33. Chapter 33

    How Providence won its name (1636), by George Bancroft

    09:41
  34. Chapter 34

    The Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    09:07
  35. Chapter 35

    Questions that the Indians asked John Eliot

    02:01
  36. Chapter 36

    The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note

    02:51
  37. Chapter 37

    The first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John Fiske

    07:19
  38. Chapter 38

    How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis

    06:42
  39. Chapter 39

    Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis

    13:02
  40. Chapter 40

    Wouter van Twiller, governor of New Netherland, by Washington Irving

    11:42
  41. Chapter 41

    The edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter, 1836-1905, painting p. 218

    02:52
  42. Chapter 42

    How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving

    22:55
  43. Chapter 43

    William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March Tappan

    11:21
  44. Chapter 44

    Penn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, painting p. 238

    02:42
  45. Chapter 45

    The United States Part VII: Stories of the Puritans: Historical note

    02:27
  46. Chapter 46

    Sunday in the New England colonies (seventeenth century), by Alice Morse Earle

    20:12
  47. Chapter 47

    Calling a minister three centuries ago (1652), by Eva March Tappan

    06:26
  48. Chapter 48

    The king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead Whittier

    04:38
  49. Chapter 49

    How Connecticut saved her charter (1687), by W. H. Carpenter and T. S. Arthur

    07:15
  50. Chapter 50

    Sir William Phips, treasure-seeker and soldier (latter part of the seventeenth century), by Charles C. B. Seymour

    21:01
  51. Chapter 51

    Were there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John Fiske

    24:33
  52. Chapter 52

    The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note

    02:40
  53. Chapter 53

    The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott

    14:05
  54. Chapter 54

    The mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300

    03:14
  55. Chapter 55

    The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself

    27:21
  56. Chapter 56

    The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister

    13:41
  57. Chapter 57

    The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman

    13:21
  58. Chapter 58

    The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake

    10:45
  59. Chapter 59

    The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note

    02:41
  60. Chapter 60

    Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield

    09:37
  61. Chapter 61

    Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft

    08:05
  62. Chapter 62

    Braddock's defeat (1755), by John Fiske

    16:36
  63. Chapter 63

    When Israel Putnam was captured by the Indians, an incident of the French and Indian war (1758), by Oliver W. B. Peabody

    13:13
  64. Chapter 64

    The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

    25:01
  65. Chapter 65

    The prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander Henry

    17:36
  66. Chapter 66

    The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note

    02:16
  67. Chapter 67

    Everyday life in the early colonies, by George Cary Eggleston

    18:58
  68. Chapter 68

    Blackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John Fiske

    06:33
  69. Chapter 69

    Judge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel Sewall

    09:50
  70. Chapter 70

    An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding

    12:26
  71. Chapter 71

    The dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green Winslow

    05:05
  72. Chapter 72

    The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note

    02:02
  73. Chapter 73

    Benjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James Parton

    22:40
  74. Chapter 74

    The Boston massacre (1770), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    08:56
  75. Chapter 75

    The Boston Tea-Party (1773), by John Fiske

    19:48
  76. Chapter 76

    Patrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, American artist, 1817-1895, painting p. 456

    02:39
  77. Chapter 77

    ''Give me liberty, or give me death !'' (1775), by Patrick Henry

    06:20
  78. Chapter 78

    The United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical note

    02:38
  79. Chapter 79

    The first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett Hale

    23:36
  80. Chapter 80

    Grandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry, by Oliver Wendell Holmes

    12:56
  81. Chapter 81

    When Washington took command (1775), by Henry Cabot Lodge

    12:27
  82. Chapter 82

    How Fort Moultrie was held for the colonies (1776), by George Bancroft

    15:26
  83. Chapter 83

    The defense of Fort Moultrie, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting p. 494

    02:13
  84. Chapter 84

    The Declaration of Independence (1776), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    09:17
  85. Chapter 85

    Nathan Hale (1776), by Francis Miles Finch

    04:02
  86. Chapter 86

    How Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward Everett

    16:14
  87. Chapter 87

    Why Cornwallis failed to ''bag the old fox'' (1777), by John Fiske

    07:41
  88. Chapter 88

    The marching song of Stark's men (1777), by Edward Everett Hale

    02:21
  89. Chapter 89

    Burgoyne's surrender (1777), by John Fiske

    16:57
  90. Chapter 90

    The United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical note

    02:31
  91. Chapter 91

    How Daniel Boone saved Boonesborough (1775), by Charles C. B. Seymour

    15:00
  92. Chapter 92

    A campaign through the water (1778), by George Rogers Clark

    20:43
  93. Chapter 93

    How the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend Brady

    10:45
  94. Chapter 94

    The first salute to the flag (1778), by Sarah Orne Jewett

    07:55
  95. Chapter 95

    John Paul Jones in the revolution (1775-1781), by Joel Tyler Headley

    37:48
  96. Chapter 96

    The fight between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, by Walt Whitman, from an old engraving, painting p. 588

    02:05