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
Chapters
1 Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting, frontispiece 2 min 2 The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note 2 min 3 The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas 10 min 4 Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller 3 min 5 Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524) 14 min 6 The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note 2 min 7 Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober 11 min 8 A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca 14 min 9 The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto 9 min 10 When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving 17 min 11 The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving 8 min 12 The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note 1 min 13 The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske 7 min 14 How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden 27 min 15 How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F. Lummis 9 min 16 The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis 28 min 17 The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical note 3 min 18 The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft 22 min 19 The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey 11 min 20 John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith 13 min 21 Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painting p. 122 3 min 22 The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston 15 min 23 Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan 10 min 24 The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, painting p. 136 3 min 25 How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend Brady 23 min 26 The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note 2 min 27 When Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John Brereton 16 min 28 The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, painting p. 160 3 min 29 The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis 10 min 30 The challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 9 min 31 The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. 174 2 min 32 Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel Hawthorne 15 min 33 How Providence won its name (1636), by George Bancroft 10 min 34 The Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9 min 35 Questions that the Indians asked John Eliot 2 min 36 The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note 3 min 37 The first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John Fiske 7 min 38 How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis 7 min 39 Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis 13 min 40 Wouter van Twiller, governor of New Netherland, by Washington Irving 12 min 41 The edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter, 1836-1905, painting p. 218 3 min 42 How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving 23 min 43 William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March Tappan 11 min 44 Penn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, painting p. 238 3 min 45 The United States Part VII: Stories of the Puritans: Historical note 2 min 46 Sunday in the New England colonies (seventeenth century), by Alice Morse Earle 20 min 47 Calling a minister three centuries ago (1652), by Eva March Tappan 6 min 48 The king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead Whittier 5 min 49 How Connecticut saved her charter (1687), by W. H. Carpenter and T. S. Arthur 7 min 50 Sir William Phips, treasure-seeker and soldier (latter part of the seventeenth century), by Charles C. B. Seymour 21 min 51 Were there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John Fiske 25 min 52 The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note 3 min 53 The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott 14 min 54 The mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300 3 min 55 The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself 27 min 56 The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister 14 min 57 The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman 13 min 58 The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake 11 min 59 The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note 3 min 60 Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield 10 min 61 Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft 8 min 62 Braddock's defeat (1755), by John Fiske 17 min 63 When Israel Putnam was captured by the Indians, an incident of the French and Indian war (1758), by Oliver W. B. Peabody 13 min 64 The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood 25 min 65 The prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander Henry 18 min 66 The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note 2 min 67 Everyday life in the early colonies, by George Cary Eggleston 19 min 68 Blackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John Fiske 7 min 69 Judge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel Sewall 10 min 70 An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding 12 min 71 The dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green Winslow 5 min 72 The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note 2 min 73 Benjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James Parton 23 min 74 The Boston massacre (1770), by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9 min 75 The Boston Tea-Party (1773), by John Fiske 20 min 76 Patrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, American artist, 1817-1895, painting p. 456 3 min 77 ''Give me liberty, or give me death !'' (1775), by Patrick Henry 6 min 78 The United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical note 3 min 79 The first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett Hale 24 min 80 Grandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry, by Oliver Wendell Holmes 13 min 81 When Washington took command (1775), by Henry Cabot Lodge 12 min 82 How Fort Moultrie was held for the colonies (1776), by George Bancroft 15 min 83 The defense of Fort Moultrie, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting p. 494 2 min 84 The Declaration of Independence (1776), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson 9 min 85 Nathan Hale (1776), by Francis Miles Finch 4 min 86 How Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward Everett 16 min 87 Why Cornwallis failed to ''bag the old fox'' (1777), by John Fiske 8 min 88 The marching song of Stark's men (1777), by Edward Everett Hale 2 min 89 Burgoyne's surrender (1777), by John Fiske 17 min 90 The United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical note 3 min 91 How Daniel Boone saved Boonesborough (1775), by Charles C. B. Seymour 15 min 92 A campaign through the water (1778), by George Rogers Clark 21 min 93 How the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend Brady 11 min 94 The first salute to the flag (1778), by Sarah Orne Jewett 8 min 95 John Paul Jones in the revolution (1775-1781), by Joel Tyler Headley 38 min 96 The fight between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, by Walt Whitman, from an old engraving, painting p. 588 2 min
