ALBERT F. BLAISDELL
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
THE STORY OF AMERICAN HISTORY
CHAPTER I. AMERICA IN THE OLD DAYS.
CHAPTER II. COLUMBUS AND THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
CHAPTER III. SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH.
CHAPTER IV. THE STORY OF THE PILGRIMS.
CHAPTER V. MORE ABOUT THE PILGRIMS.
CHAPTER VI. THE INDIANS AND HOW THEY LIVED.
CHAPTER VII. THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK; THE QUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
CHAPTER VIII. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS.
CHAPTER IX. EVERYDAY LIFE IN COLONIAL TIMES.
CHAPTER X. THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION.
CHAPTER XI. LEXINGTON AND CONCORD.
CHAPTER XII. THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.
CHAPTER XIII. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
CHAPTER XIV. THE BURGOYNE CAMPAIGN.
CHAPTER XV. WASHINGTON AND THE REVOLUTION.
CHAPTER XVI. THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH.
CHAPTER XVII. THE STORY OF ARNOLD'S TREASON.
CHAPTER XVIII. JOHN PAUL JONES: OUR FIRST GREAT NAVAL HERO.
CHAPTER XIX. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: HIS HIGHLY USEFUL CAREER.
CHAPTER XX. EVERYDAY LIFE ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
CHAPTER XXI. WHAT OUR NAVY DID IN THE WAR OF 1812.
CHAPTER XXII. THE SETTLEMENT OF THE PACIFIC COAST.
CHAPTER XXIII. LINCOLN AND THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
CHAPTER XXIV. MORE ABOUT THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
CHAPTER XXV. OUR NAVY IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE WAR WITH SPAIN IN 1898.
APPENDIX.
REFERENCE BOOKS AND SUPPLEMENTARY READING FOR SUCCESSIVE PERIODS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
INDEX. Alabama, career of the, 397 destroyed by Kearsarge, 397
