The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States


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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

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Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting, frontispiece 1:59 Leído por Sonia
The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note 1:32 Leído por Sonia
The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas 10:26 Leído por Piotr Nater
Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller 2:38 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524) 14:28 Leído por Piotr Nater
The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note 2:02 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober 10:49 Leído por April6090
A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca 13:40 Leído por Piotr Nater
The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto 9:02 Leído por Rita Boutros
When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving 17:21 Leído por Rita Boutros
The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving 7:43 Leído por Rita Boutros
The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note 1:23 Leído por Tomas Peter
The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske 6:32 Leído por Piotr Nater
How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden 27:20 Leído por April6090
How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F. Lummis 8:57 Leído por Sonrisa Jones
The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis 28:29 Leído por Piotr Nater
The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical note 2:41 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft 22:01 Leído por Piotr Nater
The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey 10:57 Leído por Availle
John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith 13:08 Leído por Jim Locke
Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painting p. 122 2:53 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston 15:05 Leído por Sonrisa Jones
Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan 9:56 Leído por Availle
The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, painting p. 136 2:48 Leído por Lynda Marie Neilson
How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend Brady 22:45 Leído por bellanelson875
The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note 2:12 Leído por Kristine Bekere
When Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John Brereton 15:46 Leído por April6090
The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, painting p. 160 2:41 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis 10:09 Leído por Devorah Allen
The challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 8:46 Leído por Jim Locke
The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. 174 1:42 Leído por Tomas Peter
Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel Hawthorne 15:26 Leído por Colleen McMahon
How Providence won its name (1636), by George Bancroft 9:41 Leído por Lynda Marie Neilson
The Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9:07 Leído por Lynda Marie Neilson
Questions that the Indians asked John Eliot 2:01 Leído por Sonia
The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note 2:51 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John Fiske 7:19 Leído por Kristine Bekere
How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis 6:42 Leído por Piotr Nater
Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis 13:02 Leído por Availle
Wouter van Twiller, governor of New Netherland, by Washington Irving 11:42 Leído por ToddHW
The edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter, 1836-1905, painting p. 218 2:52 Leído por Alan Mapstone
How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving 22:55 Leído por Jim Locke
William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March Tappan 11:21 Leído por BettyB
Penn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, painting p. 238 2:42 Leído por Monika M. C.
The United States Part VII: Stories of the Puritans: Historical note 2:27 Leído por BettyB
Sunday in the New England colonies (seventeenth century), by Alice Morse Earle 20:12 Leído por Jim Locke
Calling a minister three centuries ago (1652), by Eva March Tappan 6:26 Leído por Devorah Allen
The king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead Whittier 4:38 Leído por Alan Mapstone
How Connecticut saved her charter (1687), by W. H. Carpenter and T. S. Arthur 7:15 Leído por Jim Locke
Sir William Phips, treasure-seeker and soldier (latter part of the seventeenth century), by Charles C. B. Seymour 21:01 Leído por Jim Locke
Were there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John Fiske 24:33 Leído por Availle
The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note 2:40 Leído por BettyB
The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott 14:05 Leído por Rita Boutros
The mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300 3:14 Leído por Rita Boutros
The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself 27:21 Leído por April6090
The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister 13:41 Leído por Cliona Woodbyrne
The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman 13:21 Leído por Jim Locke
The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake 10:45 Leído por Rita Boutros
The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note 2:41 Leído por BettyB
Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield 9:37 Leído por Availle
Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft 8:05 Leído por Jim Locke
Braddock's defeat (1755), by John Fiske 16:36 Leído por Rita Boutros
When Israel Putnam was captured by the Indians, an incident of the French and Indian war (1758), by Oliver W. B. Peabody 13:13 Leído por Jim Locke
The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood 25:01 Leído por Piotr Nater
The prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander Henry 17:36 Leído por Jim Locke
The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note 2:16 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Everyday life in the early colonies, by George Cary Eggleston 18:58 Leído por Piotr Nater
Blackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John Fiske 6:33 Leído por Tomas Peter
Judge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel Sewall 9:50 Leído por Jim Locke
An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding 12:26 Leído por ToddHW
The dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green Winslow 5:05 Leído por April6090
The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note 2:02 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Benjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James Parton 22:40 Leído por Parsa2020
The Boston massacre (1770), by Nathaniel Hawthorne 8:56 Leído por Jim Locke
The Boston Tea-Party (1773), by John Fiske 19:48 Leído por Availle
Patrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, American artist, 1817-1895, painting p. 456 2:39 Leído por Alan Mapstone
''Give me liberty, or give me death !'' (1775), by Patrick Henry 6:20 Leído por Tomas Peter
The United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical note 2:38 Leído por BettyB
The first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett Hale 23:36 Leído por Jim Locke
Grandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry, by Oliver Wendell Holmes 12:56 Leído por Alan Mapstone
When Washington took command (1775), by Henry Cabot Lodge 12:27 Leído por BettyB
How Fort Moultrie was held for the colonies (1776), by George Bancroft 15:26 Leído por Colleen McMahon
The defense of Fort Moultrie, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting p. 494 2:13 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The Declaration of Independence (1776), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson 9:17 Leído por April6090
Nathan Hale (1776), by Francis Miles Finch 4:02 Leído por Alan Mapstone
How Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward Everett 16:14 Leído por Parsa2020
Why Cornwallis failed to ''bag the old fox'' (1777), by John Fiske 7:41 Leído por April6090
The marching song of Stark's men (1777), by Edward Everett Hale 2:21 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Burgoyne's surrender (1777), by John Fiske 16:57 Leído por Jim Locke
The United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical note 2:31 Leído por Tomas Peter
How Daniel Boone saved Boonesborough (1775), by Charles C. B. Seymour 15:00 Leído por Jim Locke
A campaign through the water (1778), by George Rogers Clark 20:43 Leído por Kristine Bekere
How the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend Brady 10:45 Leído por Jim Locke
The first salute to the flag (1778), by Sarah Orne Jewett 7:55 Leído por Jim Locke
John Paul Jones in the revolution (1775-1781), by Joel Tyler Headley 37:48 Leído por Jim Locke
The fight between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, by Walt Whitman, from an old engraving, painting p. 588 2:05 Leído por Sonia