PART I |
THE COLONIAL PERIOD |
America , Arthur Cleveland Coxe |
CHAPTER I |
The Discovery of America |
The Story of Vinland , Sidney Lanier |
The Norsemen , John Greenleaf Whittier |
The Skeleton in Armor , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Prophecy , Luigi Pulci |
The Inspiration , James Montgomery |
Columbus , Lydia Huntley Sigourney |
Columbus to Ferdinand , Philip Freneau |
Columbus at the Convent , John T. Trowbridge |
The Final Struggle , Louis James Block |
Steer, Bold Mariner, On , Friedrich von Schiller |
The Triumph , Sidney Lanier |
Columbus , Joaquin Miller |
The Thanksgiving for America , Hezekiah Butterworth |
Columbus in Chains , Philip Freneau |
Columbus Dying , Edna Dean Proctor |
Columbus , Edward Everett Hale |
Columbus and the Mayflower , Lord Houghton |
CHAPTER II |
In the Wake of Columbus |
The First Voyage of John Cabot , Unknown |
The Legend of Waukulla , Hezekiah Butterworth |
The Fountain of Youth , Hezekiah Butterworth |
Ponce de Leon , Edith M. Thomas |
Balboa , Nora Perry |
With Cortez in Mexico , W. W. Campbell |
The Lust of Gold , James Montgomery |
Verazzano , Hezekiah Butterworth |
Ortiz , Hezekiah Butterworth |
The Fall of Maubila , Thomas Dunn English |
Quivra , Arthur Guiterman |
Norembega , John Greenleaf Whittier |
Sir Humphrey Gilbert , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
The First American Sailors , Wallace Rice |
CHAPTER III |
The Settlement of Virginia |
The Mystery of Cro-a-tn , Margaret Junkin Preston |
John Smith's Approach to Jamestown , James Barron Hope |
Pocahontas , William Makepeace Thackeray |
Pocahontas , George Pope Morris |
Bermudas , Andrew Marvell |
Newes from Virginia , Richard Rich |
To the Virginian Voyage , Michael Drayton |
The Marriage of Pocahontas , Mrs. M. M. Webster |
The Last Meeting of Pocahontas and the Great Captain , Margaret Junkin Preston |
The Burning of Jamestown , Thomas Dunn English |
Bacon's Epitaph , Unknown |
Ode to Jamestown , James Kirke Paulding |
The Downfall of Piracy , Benjamin Franklin |
From Potomac to Merrimac , Edward Everett Hale |
CHAPTER IV |
The Dutch at New Amsterdam |
Henry Hudson's Quest , Burton Egbert Stevenson |
The Death of Colman , Thomas Frost |
Adrian Block's Song , Edward Everett Hale |
The Praise of New Netherland , Jacob Steendam |
The Complaint of New Amsterdam , Jacob Steendam |
Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call , Edmund Clarence Stedman |
CHAPTER V |
The Settlement of New England |
The Word of God to Leyden came , Jeremiah Eames Rankin |
Song of the Pilgrims , Thomas Cogswell Upham |
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers , Felicia Hemans |
The First Proclamation of Miles Standish , Margaret Junkin Preston |
The Mayflower , Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth |
The Peace Message , Burton Egbert Stevenson |
The First Thanksgiving Day , Margaret Junkin Preston |
The War-Token , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Five Kernels of Corn , Hezekiah Butterworth |
The Expedition to Wessagusset , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
New England's Annoyances , Unknown |
The Pilgrim Fathers , William Wordsworth |
The Pilgrim Fathers , John Pierpont |
The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor , Hezekiah Butterworth |
The First Thanksgiving , Clinton Scollard |
New England's Growth , William Bradford |
The Assault on the Fortress , Timothy Dwight |
Death Song , Alonzo Lewis |
Our Country , Julia Ward Howe |
CHAPTER VI |
Religious Persecutions in New England |
Prologue , from "John Endicott," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Roger Williams , Hezekiah Butterworth |
God makes a Path , Roger Williams |
Canonicus and Roger Williams , Unknown |
Anne Hutchinson's Exile , Edward Everett Hale |
John Underhill , John Greenleaf Whittier |
The Proclamation , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Cassandra Southwick , John Greenleaf Whittier |
The King's Missive , John Greenleaf Whittier |
CHAPTER VII |
King Philip's War and the Witchcraft Delusion |
The Lamentable Ballad of the Bloody Brook , Edward Everett Hale |
The Great Swamp Fight , Caroline Hazard |
On a Fortification at Boston begun by Women , Benjamin Tompson |
The Sudbury Fight , Wallace Rice |
King Philip's Last Stand , Clinton Scollard |
Prologue , from "Giles Corey of the Salem Farms," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Salem , Edmund Clarence Stedman |
The Death of Goody Nurse , Rose Terry Cooke |
A Salem Witch , Ednah Proctor Clarke |
The Trial , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Giles Corey , Unknown |
Mistress Hale of Beverly , Lucy Larcom |
CHAPTER VIII |
The Struggle for the Continent |
St. John , John Greenleaf Whittier |
The Battle of La Prairie , William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall |
The Sack of Deerfield , Thomas Dunn English |
Pentucket , John Greenleaf Whittier |
Lovewell's Fight , Unknown |
Lovewell's Fight , Unknown |
The Battle of Lovell's Pond , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Louisburg , Unknown |
A Ballad of the French Fleet , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
The British Lyon roused , Stephen Tilden |
The Song of Braddock's Men , Unknown |
Braddock's Fate , Stephen Tilden |
Ned Braddock , John Williamson Palmer |
Ode to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania , Unknown |
The Embarkation , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
On the Defeat at Ticonderoga or Carilong , Unknown |
On the Late Successful Expedition against Louisbourg , Francis Hopkinson |
Fort Duquesne , Florus B. Plimpton |
Hot stuff , Edward Botwood |
How Stands the Glass around , James Wolfe |
Brave Wolfe , Unknown |
The Death of Wolfe , Unknown |
The Captive's Hymn , Edna Dean Proctor |
A Prophecy , Arthur Lee |
PART II |
THE REVOLUTION |
Flawless his Heart , James Russell Lowell |
CHAPTER I |
The Coming of Discontent |