Category: History - American
How much more easily history is grasped and remembered when grouped around attractive biographies. With great cities as the centers of geography-study, what is generally considered a dry, matter-of-fact subject can be made to attract, to inspire, and to fix the things which sh...
After much debate the present location was chosen, and the two states of Maryland and Virginia each gave to the federal government entire control over a small territory on the P...
10. Part 10The story of New Orleans, the Crescent City, reads like a wonderful romance or a tale from the Arabian Nights. As in a moving picture, one can see men making a clearing along th...
5. Part 5We must get a clear idea of these various districts of Boston. If not, we shall be puzzled to meet friends from Roxbury or Dorchester and hear them say that they live in Boston....
2. Part 2The work was begun in 1901. A small army of men was set to blasting and digging tunnels underneath the city streets,--a tremendous task,--and in 1904 the first subway was opened...
8. Part 8Detroit had prospered but little since 1760. Its inhabitants were for the most part easy-going Frenchmen. They were not suited to the strenuous work of city building. Detroit, i...
7. Part 7Baltimore has won a reputation as an educational center through the splendid equipment and wonderful accomplishments of Johns Hopkins University, which is noted throughout the w...
6. Part 6Having seen Boston at work and at play, we now ask ourselves where the food comes from to feed this vast multitude. Its meats, flour, and grain of all kinds are brought into its...
9. Part 9In the coke ovens millions of tons of soft coal are every year turned into coke, which is really coal with certain things removed by heating. This coke is used in melting the ir...
3. Part 3One dream of the builders of the canal has not yet been realized. They called it the Chicago Drainage and Ship Canal, in the hope that it might some day be used for shipping pur...
4. Part 4When the United States became an independent nation it was necessary to have a coinage system of its own. In 1792 a mint was established in Philadelphia to coin money for the Un...
1. Part 1How much more easily history is grasped and remembered when grouped around attractive biographies. With great cities as the centers of geography-study, what is generally conside...
12. Part 12There is one almost sacred spot, upon which the nation has erected a splendid memorial to our greatest hero, George Washington. The Washington Monument is a simple obelisk of wh...
13. Part 13San Francisco, 227-244 early history, 227 growth of, 227, 228 "child of the mines," 228 San Francisco Bay, 230 trade center, 231 exports, 231 imports, 231 industries, 233 United...