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World's Story Volume XIII: The United States

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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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Chapters

Chapter 1
An August morning with Farragut, by W. H. Overend, American painter, painting, frontispiece
02:54
Chapter 2
The United States, Volume II: Part I: The colonies win their freedom: Historical note
02:42
Chapter 3
Congress and Valley Forge (1777-1778), by John Fiske
04:18
Chapter 4
Baron Steuben drilling the colonial troops at Valley Forge, by Edwin A. Abbey, American artist, 1852, painting p. 4
02:00
Chapter 5
The message of Lydia Darrah (1777), by Elizabeth F. Ellet
12:12
Chapter 6
Mollie Pitcher (1787), by Kate Brownlee Sherwood
01:44
Chapter 7
The capture of Major André (1780), by Jared Sparks
08:30
Chapter 8
A visit to General Marion (1781), by Charles Carleton Coffin
06:04
Chapter 9
When Cornwallis surrendered (1781), By Burton Egbert Stevenson
08:14
Chapter 10
George III acknowledges the independence of the colonies (1782), by Elkanah Watson
08:03
Chapter 11
When Washington resigned his commission (1783), by R. M. Devens
08:09
Chapter 12
The United States, Volume II: Part II: Life in revolutionary days: Historical note
02:44
Chapter 13
The Meschianza at Philadelphia (1778), by John F. Watson
12:13
Chapter 14
A New England Thanksgiving dinner in 1779, by Juliana Smith
08:06
Chapter 15
A call on Lady Washington in 1780, by Charles D. Platt
01:58
Chapter 16
How people traveled in revolutionary times (1775-1781), by John Bach McMaster
15:56
Chapter 17
Abraham Davenport (1780), by John G. Whittier
04:57
Chapter 18
The United States, Volume II: Part III: The first years of the nation: Historical note
02:33
Chapter 19
America, by Samuel Francis Smith
01:37
Chapter 20
How Philadelphia celebrated the ratification of the Constitution (1788), by John Bach McMaster
07:09
Chapter 21
The first Inauguration Day (1789), by John Bach McMaster
09:04
Chapter 22
The death of Washington (1799)
08:54
Chapter 23
Red Jacket and the missionary (end of the eighteenth century), by Charles H. L. Johnston
07:12
Chapter 24
The burning of the Philadelphia (1804), by Cyrus Townssend Brady
16:42
Chapter 25
The trials of the British Minister in Jefferson's administration (1803-1809), by James Parton
12:18
Chapter 26
The Clermont's first advertisement
02:08
Chapter 27
The United States, Volume II: Part IV: The Louisiana Territory: Historical note
02:43
Chapter 28
Napoleon plans to sell Louisiana (1803), by A. E. Winship and Robert W. Wallace
05:19
Chapter 29
The ''bargain'' purchase of the Louisiana Territory (1803), by James Parton
10:20
Chapter 30
Taking possession of Louisiana Territory, by Thure de Thulstrupp, painting p. 114
01:11
Chapter 31
Exploring the Louisiana Territory, by James Parton
08:25
Chapter 32
Lewis and Clarke at the source of the Missouri, from their journal
05:24
Chapter 33
Sa-Cá-Ga-We-A (1804), by Edna Dean Proctor
04:05
Chapter 34
The United States, Volume II: Part V: The war of 1812: Historical note
02:20
Chapter 35
What caused the second war with England (1812), by Agnes C. Laut
09:13
Chapter 36
How Winfield Scott rescued the Irishmen, by James Barnes
08:46
Chapter 37
On the capture of the Guerrière, by Philip Freneau
02:36
Chapter 38
The Shannon and the Chesapeake (1813), by Thomas Tracy Bouvé
04:52
Chapter 39
How Perry saved the Northwest (1813), by Charles Morris
13:02
Chapter 40
The battle of Lake Erie, from an engraving, painting p. 148
03:00
Chapter 41
The Star-Spangled Banner (1814), by Francis Scott Key
03:22
Chapter 42
Tecumseh, the Indian Brigadier-General (1813), by Charles H. L. Johnston
10:40
Chapter 43
The Privateers of 1812, by Willis J. Abbot
30:57
Chapter 44
The ''Horse-Marines'' of 1814, by John Bach McMaster
09:12
Chapter 45
The United States, Volume II: Part VI: A period of growth and expansion: Historical note
01:52
Chapter 46
The opening of the Erie Canal, by John Bach McMaster
04:00
Chapter 47
The guest of the Nation, by Daniel Webster
04:04
Chapter 48
The highest peak of the Rocky Mountains, by John Charles Frémont
14:45
Chapter 49
The first telegram, by R. M. Devens
11:21
Chapter 50
A little Scotch pioneer in Wisconsin (the first half of the nineteenth century), by John Muir
14:51
Chapter 51
The United States, Volume II: Part VII: The Mexican War: Historical note
01:59
Chapter 52
''Remember the Alamo !'', by Cyrus Townsend Brady
20:09
Chapter 53
The importance of one vote, by W. H. Vail
01:49
Chapter 54
The storming of Chapultepec (1847), by James Barnes
09:00
Chapter 55
The United States, Volume II: Part VIII: California: Historical note
02:01
Chapter 56
When the English discovered California (1577-1579), by Edward Everett Hale
09:34
Chapter 57
On the California Coast in the Thirties, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
16:17
Chapter 58
How the ''Forty-Niners'' reached California, by Henry Childs Merwin
11:55
Chapter 59
Early business days in San Francisco (1849-1853), by Henry Childs Merwin
08:07
Chapter 60
The United States, Volume II: Part IX: The shadow of Civil War: Historical note
03:28
Chapter 61
The ''Broadcloth Mob'' of Boston (1835), by Harriet Martineau
12:14
Chapter 62
On the underground railway (about 1858), by Francis Grierson
14:08
Chapter 63
The great Lincoln-Douglas debate (1858), by Francis Grierson
11:37
Chapter 64
Just before the war (1858), by Morris Schaff
15:59
Chapter 65
The last moment of John Brown, by Thomas Hovenden, born in Ireland, 1810, died in America in 1895, painting p. 290
01:55
Chapter 66
The United States, Volume II: Part X: From Fort Sumter to Chancellorsville: Historical note
03:43
Chapter 67
The bombardment of Fort Sumter (1861), by Orville J. Victor
08:04
Chapter 68
Battle-Hymn of the Republic (1861), by Julia Ward Howe
02:06
Chapter 69
The gathering of the Great Army (1861), by Charles Carleton Coffin
12:58
Chapter 70
Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell
06:13
Chapter 71
The Merrimac and the monitor (1862), by John S. Wise
27:52
Chapter 72
Taken prisoner at Shiloh (1862), by Henry M. Stanley
23:58
Chapter 73
The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (United States, 1830-1900), painting p. 346
02:23
Chapter 74
Boston Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
04:52
Chapter 75
The United States, Volume II: Part XI: The turning-point: Historical note
03:00
Chapter 76
''Stonewall'' Jackson by the river (1863), by Mary Johnston
15:49
Chapter 77
A three-hour truce at Vicksburg (1863), by W. H. Tunnard, of the Confederate Army
03:55
Chapter 78
Union gunboats on the Mississippi, from an engraving, painting p. 366
02:05
Chapter 79
A drummer-boy at Gettysburg (1863), by Harry M. Kieffer
22:20
Chapter 80
John Burns of Gettysburg (1863), by Bret Harte
06:17
Chapter 81
The Gettysburg Address, by Abraham Lincoln
02:18
Chapter 82
Alabama dressmaking in the days of the Blockade (1861-1865), by Parthenia Antoinette Hague
22:20
Chapter 83
General order number 11, by G. C. Brigham, painting p. 390
03:03
Chapter 84
The United States, Volume II: Part XII: The end of the struggle: Historical note
03:04
Chapter 85
The Battle of the Crater, Petersburg, by J. D. Woodward, painting p. 406
02:26
Chapter 86
The day of the evacuation of Richmond (1865), by Morris Schaff
05:23
Chapter 87
Carrying a message to General Lee, by John S. Wise
26:14
Chapter 88
Lee's surrender (1865), by Morris Schaff
14:15
Chapter 89
America after the Civil War, by William Ewart Gladstone
06:40
Chapter 90
The United States, Volume II: Part XIII: Stories of the Western Indians: Historical note
01:59
Chapter 91
A Choctaw holiday (about 1850), by George Catlin
15:30
Chapter 92
What the Indians thought of the White Men, by George Bird Grinnell
13:14
Chapter 93
The Indian story of the Custer tragedy (1877), by James McLaughlin
27:10
Chapter 94
The Temecula Valley, and American Grand Pré (1869), by Helen Hunt Jackson
13:33
Chapter 95
The United States, Volume II: Part XIV: The Spanish War: Historical note
02:08
Chapter 96
Cuba to Columbia, by Will Carleton (April, 1896)
01:58
Chapter 97
The sinking of the Maine (1898), by Willis J. Abbot
08:57
Chapter 98
The battle of Santiago (1898), from the account of a newspaper correspondent
10:26
Chapter 99
The charge at El Caney, by Frank T. Merrill, painting p. 488
02:55
Chapter 100
The flag goes by, by Henry Holcomb Bennett
01:40
Chapter 101
The United States, Volume II: Part XV: The twentieth century: Historical note
02:05
Chapter 102
The romance of the reindeer (1905), by Mary Gay Humphreys
15:37
Chapter 103
Totem poles, Alaska, photograph p. 504
01:29
Chapter 104
Learning coal-mining, by Joseph Husband
16:44
Chapter 105
The social value of the telephone in the United States, by Herbert N. Casson
21:05
Chapter 106
How the Panama railroad was built (1849-1855), by Hugh C. Weir
12:03
Chapter 107
The steam shovel at Panama, by Hugh C. Weir
13:08
Chapter 108
The triumph of the wireless (1909), by Captain J. B. Ranson, R.N.R.
18:37
Chapter 109
The National Red Cross at work, by Constance D. Leupp
12:16
Chapter 110
Gettysburg fifty years after, photograph p. 558
02:03
Chapter 111
''America for me'', by Henry van Dyke
02:12

World's Story Volume XIII: The United States

Chapters

An August morning with Farragut, by W. H. Overend, American painter, painting, frontispiece

The United States, Volume II: Part I: The colonies win their freedom: Historical note

Congress and Valley Forge (1777-1778), by John Fiske

Baron Steuben drilling the colonial troops at Valley Forge, by Edwin A. Abbey, American artist, 1852, painting p. 4

The message of Lydia Darrah (1777), by Elizabeth F. Ellet

Mollie Pitcher (1787), by Kate Brownlee Sherwood

The capture of Major André (1780), by Jared Sparks

A visit to General Marion (1781), by Charles Carleton Coffin

When Cornwallis surrendered (1781), By Burton Egbert Stevenson

George III acknowledges the independence of the colonies (1782), by Elkanah Watson

When Washington resigned his commission (1783), by R. M. Devens

The United States, Volume II: Part II: Life in revolutionary days: Historical note

The Meschianza at Philadelphia (1778), by John F. Watson

A New England Thanksgiving dinner in 1779, by Juliana Smith

A call on Lady Washington in 1780, by Charles D. Platt

How people traveled in revolutionary times (1775-1781), by John Bach McMaster

Abraham Davenport (1780), by John G. Whittier

The United States, Volume II: Part III: The first years of the nation: Historical note

America, by Samuel Francis Smith

How Philadelphia celebrated the ratification of the Constitution (1788), by John Bach McMaster

The first Inauguration Day (1789), by John Bach McMaster

The death of Washington (1799)

Red Jacket and the missionary (end of the eighteenth century), by Charles H. L. Johnston

The burning of the Philadelphia (1804), by Cyrus Townssend Brady

The trials of the British Minister in Jefferson's administration (1803-1809), by James Parton

The Clermont's first advertisement

The United States, Volume II: Part IV: The Louisiana Territory: Historical note

Napoleon plans to sell Louisiana (1803), by A. E. Winship and Robert W. Wallace

The ''bargain'' purchase of the Louisiana Territory (1803), by James Parton

Taking possession of Louisiana Territory, by Thure de Thulstrupp, painting p. 114

Exploring the Louisiana Territory, by James Parton

Lewis and Clarke at the source of the Missouri, from their journal

Sa-Cá-Ga-We-A (1804), by Edna Dean Proctor

The United States, Volume II: Part V: The war of 1812: Historical note

What caused the second war with England (1812), by Agnes C. Laut

How Winfield Scott rescued the Irishmen, by James Barnes

On the capture of the Guerrière, by Philip Freneau

The Shannon and the Chesapeake (1813), by Thomas Tracy Bouvé

How Perry saved the Northwest (1813), by Charles Morris

The battle of Lake Erie, from an engraving, painting p. 148

The Star-Spangled Banner (1814), by Francis Scott Key

Tecumseh, the Indian Brigadier-General (1813), by Charles H. L. Johnston

The Privateers of 1812, by Willis J. Abbot

The ''Horse-Marines'' of 1814, by John Bach McMaster

The United States, Volume II: Part VI: A period of growth and expansion: Historical note

The opening of the Erie Canal, by John Bach McMaster

The guest of the Nation, by Daniel Webster

The highest peak of the Rocky Mountains, by John Charles Frémont

The first telegram, by R. M. Devens

A little Scotch pioneer in Wisconsin (the first half of the nineteenth century), by John Muir

The United States, Volume II: Part VII: The Mexican War: Historical note

''Remember the Alamo !'', by Cyrus Townsend Brady

The importance of one vote, by W. H. Vail

The storming of Chapultepec (1847), by James Barnes

The United States, Volume II: Part VIII: California: Historical note

When the English discovered California (1577-1579), by Edward Everett Hale

On the California Coast in the Thirties, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

How the ''Forty-Niners'' reached California, by Henry Childs Merwin

Early business days in San Francisco (1849-1853), by Henry Childs Merwin

The United States, Volume II: Part IX: The shadow of Civil War: Historical note

The ''Broadcloth Mob'' of Boston (1835), by Harriet Martineau

On the underground railway (about 1858), by Francis Grierson

The great Lincoln-Douglas debate (1858), by Francis Grierson

Just before the war (1858), by Morris Schaff

The last moment of John Brown, by Thomas Hovenden, born in Ireland, 1810, died in America in 1895, painting p. 290

The United States, Volume II: Part X: From Fort Sumter to Chancellorsville: Historical note

The bombardment of Fort Sumter (1861), by Orville J. Victor

Battle-Hymn of the Republic (1861), by Julia Ward Howe

The gathering of the Great Army (1861), by Charles Carleton Coffin

Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell

The Merrimac and the monitor (1862), by John S. Wise

Taken prisoner at Shiloh (1862), by Henry M. Stanley

The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (United States, 1830-1900), painting p. 346

Boston Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The United States, Volume II: Part XI: The turning-point: Historical note

''Stonewall'' Jackson by the river (1863), by Mary Johnston

A three-hour truce at Vicksburg (1863), by W. H. Tunnard, of the Confederate Army

Union gunboats on the Mississippi, from an engraving, painting p. 366