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