The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States
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Eva March Tappan
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
The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note
2:02
Read by Kristine Bekere
The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note
1:23
Read by Tomas Peter
How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F.…
8:57
Read by Sonrisa Jones
The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical no…
2:41
Read by Kristine Bekere
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
Read by Alan Mapstone
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
Read by bellanelson875
The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note
2:12
Read by Kristine Bekere
The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, paintin…
2:41
Read by Alan Mapstone
The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. …
1:42
Read by Tomas Peter
The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note
2:51
Read by Kristine Bekere
Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis
13:02
Read by Availle
The edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter…
2:52
Read by Alan Mapstone
Penn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, p…
2:42
Read by Monika M. C.
Sunday in the New England colonies (seventeenth century), by Alice Morse Earle
20:12
Read by Jim Locke
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
When Israel Putnam was captured by the Indians, an incident of the French and I…
13:13
Read by Jim Locke
The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note
2:16
Read by Kristine Bekere
The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note
2:02
Read by Kristine Bekere
Patrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, …
2:39
Read by Alan Mapstone
Grandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry…
12:56
Read by Alan Mapstone
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 United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical note
2:31
Read by Tomas Peter
How the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend Brady
10:45
Read by Jim Locke