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
- Chapter 1
Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting, frontispiece
01:59 - Chapter 2
The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note
01:32 - Chapter 3
The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas
10:26 - Chapter 4
Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller
02:38 - Chapter 5
Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524)
14:28 - Chapter 6
The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note
02:02 - Chapter 7
Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober
10:49 - Chapter 8
A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca
13:40 - Chapter 9
The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto
09:02 - Chapter 10
When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving
17:21 - Chapter 11
The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving
07:43 - Chapter 12
The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note
01:23 - Chapter 13
The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske
06:32 - Chapter 14
How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden
27:20 - Chapter 15
How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F. Lummis
08:57 - Chapter 16
The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis
28:29 - Chapter 17
The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical note
02:41 - Chapter 18
The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft
22:01 - Chapter 19
The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey
10:57 - Chapter 20
John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith
13:08 - Chapter 21
Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painting p. 122
02:53 - Chapter 22
The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston
15:05 - Chapter 23
Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan
09:56 - Chapter 24
The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, painting p. 136
02:48 - Chapter 25
How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend Brady
22:45 - Chapter 26
The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note
02:12 - Chapter 27
When Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John Brereton
15:46 - Chapter 28
The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, painting p. 160
02:41 - Chapter 29
The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis
10:09 - Chapter 30
The challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
08:46 - Chapter 31
The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. 174
01:42 - Chapter 32
Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel Hawthorne
15:26 - Chapter 33
How Providence won its name (1636), by George Bancroft
09:41 - Chapter 34
The Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel Hawthorne
09:07 - Chapter 35
Questions that the Indians asked John Eliot
02:01 - Chapter 36
The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note
02:51 - Chapter 37
The first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John Fiske
07:19 - Chapter 38
How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis
06:42 - Chapter 39
Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis
13:02 - Chapter 40
Wouter van Twiller, governor of New Netherland, by Washington Irving
11:42 - Chapter 41
The edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter, 1836-1905, painting p. 218
02:52 - Chapter 42
How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving
22:55 - Chapter 43
William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March Tappan
11:21 - Chapter 44
Penn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, painting p. 238
02:42 - Chapter 45
The United States Part VII: Stories of the Puritans: Historical note
02:27 - Chapter 46
Sunday in the New England colonies (seventeenth century), by Alice Morse Earle
20:12 - Chapter 47
Calling a minister three centuries ago (1652), by Eva March Tappan
06:26 - Chapter 48
The king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead Whittier
04:38 - Chapter 49
How Connecticut saved her charter (1687), by W. H. Carpenter and T. S. Arthur
07:15 - Chapter 50
Sir William Phips, treasure-seeker and soldier (latter part of the seventeenth century), by Charles C. B. Seymour
21:01 - Chapter 51
Were there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John Fiske
24:33 - Chapter 52
The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note
02:40 - Chapter 53
The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott
14:05 - Chapter 54
The mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300
03:14 - Chapter 55
The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself
27:21 - Chapter 56
The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister
13:41 - Chapter 57
The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman
13:21 - Chapter 58
The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake
10:45 - Chapter 59
The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note
02:41 - Chapter 60
Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield
09:37 - Chapter 61
Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft
08:05 - Chapter 62
Braddock's defeat (1755), by John Fiske
16:36 - 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 - Chapter 64
The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
25:01 - Chapter 65
The prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander Henry
17:36 - Chapter 66
The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note
02:16 - Chapter 67
Everyday life in the early colonies, by George Cary Eggleston
18:58 - Chapter 68
Blackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John Fiske
06:33 - Chapter 69
Judge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel Sewall
09:50 - Chapter 70
An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding
12:26 - Chapter 71
The dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green Winslow
05:05 - Chapter 72
The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note
02:02 - Chapter 73
Benjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James Parton
22:40 - Chapter 74
The Boston massacre (1770), by Nathaniel Hawthorne
08:56 - Chapter 75
The Boston Tea-Party (1773), by John Fiske
19:48 - Chapter 76
Patrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, American artist, 1817-1895, painting p. 456
02:39 - Chapter 77
''Give me liberty, or give me death !'' (1775), by Patrick Henry
06:20 - Chapter 78
The United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical note
02:38 - Chapter 79
The first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett Hale
23:36 - Chapter 80
Grandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
12:56 - Chapter 81
When Washington took command (1775), by Henry Cabot Lodge
12:27 - Chapter 82
How Fort Moultrie was held for the colonies (1776), by George Bancroft
15:26 - Chapter 83
The defense of Fort Moultrie, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting p. 494
02:13 - Chapter 84
The Declaration of Independence (1776), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
09:17 - Chapter 85
Nathan Hale (1776), by Francis Miles Finch
04:02 - Chapter 86
How Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward Everett
16:14 - Chapter 87
Why Cornwallis failed to ''bag the old fox'' (1777), by John Fiske
07:41 - Chapter 88
The marching song of Stark's men (1777), by Edward Everett Hale
02:21 - Chapter 89
Burgoyne's surrender (1777), by John Fiske
16:57 - Chapter 90
The United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical note
02:31 - Chapter 91
How Daniel Boone saved Boonesborough (1775), by Charles C. B. Seymour
15:00 - Chapter 92
A campaign through the water (1778), by George Rogers Clark
20:43 - Chapter 93
How the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend Brady
10:45 - Chapter 94
The first salute to the flag (1778), by Sarah Orne Jewett
07:55 - Chapter 95
John Paul Jones in the revolution (1775-1781), by Joel Tyler Headley
37:48 - Chapter 96
The fight between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, by Walt Whitman, from an old engraving, painting p. 588
02:05