World’s Story Volume XII: The United States


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 (17 hr 10 min)

Chapters

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