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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 (17 hr 10 min)

Chapters

Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, pain…

1:59

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The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note

1:32

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The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas

10:26

Read by Piotr Nater

Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller

2:38

Read by Alan Mapstone

Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524)

14:28

Read by Piotr Nater

The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note

2:02

Read by Kristine Bekere

Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober

10:49

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A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca

13:40

Read by Piotr Nater

The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto

9:02

Read by Rita Boutros

When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving

17:21

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The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving

7:43

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The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note

1:23

Read by Tomas Peter

The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske

6:32

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How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden

27:20

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How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F.…

8:57

Read by Sonrisa Jones

The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis

28:29

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The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical no…

2:41

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The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft

22:01

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The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey

10:57

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John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith

13:08

Read by Jim Locke

Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painti…

2:53

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The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston

15:05

Read by Sonrisa Jones

Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan

9:56

Read by Availle

The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, pai…

2:48

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend Brady

22:45

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The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note

2:12

Read by Kristine Bekere

When Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John Brereton

15:46

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The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, paintin…

2:41

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The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis

10:09

Read by Devorah Allen

The challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

8:46

Read by Jim Locke

The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. …

1:42

Read by Tomas Peter

Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

15:26

Read by Colleen McMahon

How Providence won its name (1636), by George Bancroft

9:41

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

The Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9:07

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Questions that the Indians asked John Eliot

2:01

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The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note

2:51

Read by Kristine Bekere

The first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John Fiske

7:19

Read by Kristine Bekere

How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis

6:42

Read by Piotr Nater

Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis

13:02

Read by Availle

Wouter van Twiller, governor of New Netherland, by Washington Irving

11:42

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The edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter…

2:52

Read by Alan Mapstone

How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving

22:55

Read by Jim Locke

William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March Tappan

11:21

Read by BettyB

Penn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, p…

2:42

Read by Monika M. C.

The United States Part VII: Stories of the Puritans: Historical note

2:27

Read by BettyB

Sunday in the New England colonies (seventeenth century), by Alice Morse Earle

20:12

Read by Jim Locke

Calling a minister three centuries ago (1652), by Eva March Tappan

6:26

Read by Devorah Allen

The king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead Whittier

4:38

Read by Alan Mapstone

How Connecticut saved her charter (1687), by W. H. Carpenter and T. S. Arthur

7:15

Read by Jim Locke

Sir William Phips, treasure-seeker and soldier (latter part of the seventeenth …

21:01

Read by Jim Locke

Were there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John Fiske

24:33

Read by Availle

The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note

2:40

Read by BettyB

The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott

14:05

Read by Rita Boutros

The mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300

3:14

Read by Rita Boutros

The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself

27:21

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The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister

13:41

Read by Cliona Woodbyrne

The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman

13:21

Read by Jim Locke

The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake

10:45

Read by Rita Boutros

The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note

2:41

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Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield

9:37

Read by Availle

Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft

8:05

Read by Jim Locke

Braddock's defeat (1755), by John Fiske

16:36

Read by Rita Boutros

When Israel Putnam was captured by the Indians, an incident of the French and I…

13:13

Read by Jim Locke

The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

25:01

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The prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander Henry

17:36

Read by Jim Locke

The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note

2:16

Read by Kristine Bekere

Everyday life in the early colonies, by George Cary Eggleston

18:58

Read by Piotr Nater

Blackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John Fiske

6:33

Read by Tomas Peter

Judge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel Sewall

9:50

Read by Jim Locke

An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding

12:26

Read by ToddHW

The dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green Winslow

5:05

Read by April6090

The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note

2:02

Read by Kristine Bekere

Benjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James Parton

22:40

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The Boston massacre (1770), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8:56

Read by Jim Locke

The Boston Tea-Party (1773), by John Fiske

19:48

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Patrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, …

2:39

Read by Alan Mapstone

''Give me liberty, or give me death !'' (1775), by Patrick Henry

6:20

Read by Tomas Peter

The United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical note

2:38

Read by BettyB

The first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett Hale

23:36

Read by Jim Locke

Grandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry…

12:56

Read by Alan Mapstone

When Washington took command (1775), by Henry Cabot Lodge

12:27

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How Fort Moultrie was held for the colonies (1776), by George Bancroft

15:26

Read by Colleen McMahon

The defense of Fort Moultrie, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, paintin…

2:13

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Declaration of Independence (1776), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

9:17

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Nathan Hale (1776), by Francis Miles Finch

4:02

Read by Alan Mapstone

How Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward Everett

16:14

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Why Cornwallis failed to ''bag the old fox'' (1777), by John Fiske

7:41

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The marching song of Stark's men (1777), by Edward Everett Hale

2:21

Read by Alan Mapstone

Burgoyne's surrender (1777), by John Fiske

16:57

Read by Jim Locke

The United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical note

2:31

Read by Tomas Peter

How Daniel Boone saved Boonesborough (1775), by Charles C. B. Seymour

15:00

Read by Jim Locke

A campaign through the water (1778), by George Rogers Clark

20:43

Read by Kristine Bekere

How the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend Brady

10:45

Read by Jim Locke

The first salute to the flag (1778), by Sarah Orne Jewett

7:55

Read by Jim Locke

John Paul Jones in the revolution (1775-1781), by Joel Tyler Headley

37:48

Read by Jim Locke

The fight between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, by Walt Whitman, from …

2:05

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