The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country

Reconstruction in the South--The Congress and the President--Liberal Republican Movement--Nomination, Defeat and Death of Greeley--Troops Withdrawn by President Hayes--Foreign P...

England and Spanish America--A Significant Declaration--The Key to England's Policy in South America--Alexander Hamilton and the South Americans--President Adams' Grandson a Fil...

The British Move Upon the South--Spain Accedes to the Alliance Against England--Secret Convention Between France and Spain--Capture of Stony Point--John Paul Jones--The Bon Homm...

Sir John Burgoyne's Campaign--His Bombastic Proclamation--The Tragic Story of Jane McCrea--Her Name a Rallying Cry--Washington Prevents Rowe from Aiding Burgoyne--The Battle of...

A Land Without a History--Origin of the American Indians--Their Semi-civilization--The Spanish Colonial System--The King Was Absolute Master--The Council of the Indies--The Hier...

The Missouri Compromise--Erie Canal Opened--Political Parties and Great National Issues--President Jackson Crushes the United States Bank--South Carolina Pronounces the Tariff L...

Arrogance of France--Americans and Louis XVI--Genet Defies Washington-- The People Support the President--War With the Indians--Defeat of St. Clair--Indians State Their Case--Ge...

Writs of Assistance Issued--Excitement in Boston--The Stamp Act--Protests Against Taxation Without Representation--Massachusetts Appoints a Committee of Correspondence--Samuel A...

Aggressiveness of Slavery--The Cotton States and Border States--The Fugitive Slave Law--Nullified in the North--Negroes Imported from Africa--The Struggle in Kansas--John Brown-...

Battle of Lake Erie--Master-Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry--Building a Fleet--Perry on the Lake--A Duel of Long Guns--Fearful Slaughter on the Lawrence--"Can Any of the Wounded...

John Adams President--Jefferson and the French Revolution--The French Directory--Money Demanded from America--"Millions for Defence; Not One Penny for Tribute"--Naval Warfare wi...

No Classes Here--All Are Workers--Enormous Growth of Cities--Immigration --Civic Misgovernment--The Farming Population--Individuality and Self-reliance--Isolation Even in the Gr...

The Battle of Lexington--The War of the Revolution Begun--Fort Ticonderoga Taken--Second Continental Congress--George Washington Appointed Commander-in-chief--Battle of Bunker H...

Puritans and Education--Provision for Public Schools--Puritan Sincerity --Effect of Intolerance on the Community--Quakers Harshly Persecuted--The Salem Witchcraft Tragedy--Histo...

French Decrees and British Orders in Council--Damage to American Commerce--The Embargo--Causes of the War of 1812--The Chesapeake and the Leopard--President and Little Belt--War...

Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh--English Expedition to North Carolina--Failure of Attempts to Settle There--Virginia Dare--The Lost Colony--The Foundation of Jamestown--C...

Growth of New Netherland--Governor Stuyvesant's Despotic Rule--His Comments on Popular Election--New Amsterdam Becomes New York--The Planting of Maryland--Partial Freedom of Con...

British Designs on the Southwest--New Orleans as a City of Refuge--The Baratarians--The Pirates Reject British Advances--General Jackson Storms Pensacola--Captain Reid's Splendi...

War with Mexico--General Zachary Taylor Defeats the Mexicans--Buena Vista--Mexicans Four to One--"A Little More Grape, Captain Bragg!"-- Glorious American Victory--General Scott...

The Confederate Government Organized--Fort Sumter--President Lincoln Calls for 75000 Men--Command of the Union Forces offered to Robert E. Lee--Lee Joins the Confederacy--Missou...

Causes of the Revolution--The Act of Navigation--Acts of Trade--Odious Customs Laws--English Jealousy of New England--Effect of Restrictions on Colonial Trade--Du Chatelet Fores...

The United States Taking the Lead in Civilization--Manhood Suffrage and Freedom of Worship--Humane Criminal Laws--Progress the Genius of the Nation--A Patriotic Report--State Bu...

Condition of the United States at the Close of the Revolution--New England Injured and New York Benefited Commercially by the Struggle-- Luxury of City Life--Americans an Agricu...

William Penn's Model Colony--Sketch of the Founder of Pennsylvania-- Comparative Humanity of Quaker Laws--Modified Freedom of Religion--An Early Liquor Law--Offences Against Mor...

The Puritan Immigration--Wealth and Learning Seek These Shores--Charter Restrictions Dead Letters--A Stubborn Struggle for Self-government-- Methods of Election--The Early Gover...

Grant Appointed Lieutenant-General--Takes Command in Virginia--Battles of the Wilderness--The Two Armies--Battle of Cedar Creek--Sheridan's Ride--He Turns Defeat Into Victory--C...

The War on Land--Tecumseh's Indian Confederacy--Harrison at Tippecanoe --General Hull and General Brock--A Fatal Armistice--Surrender of Detroit--English Masters of Michigan--Ge...

Henry Hudson's Discovery--Block Winters on Manhattan Island--The Dutch Take Possession--The Iroquois Friendly--Immigration of the Walloons-- Charter of Privileges and Exemptions...

General Grant Invests Vicksburg--The Confederate Garrison--Scenes in the Beleaguered City--The Surrender--Hooker Defeated at Chancellorsville-- Death of "Stonewall" Jackson--Gen...

The spirit of disunion was brewing; the people were tax-ridden, the States without credit and the prevailing discontent found expression in riot and rebellion. The insurrection...

Expulsion of the Acadians--A Cruel Deportation--The Marquis De Montcalm --The Fort William Henry Massacre--Defeat of Abercrombie--William Pitt Prosecutes the War Vigorously--For...

The Union in 1850--Comparative Population of Cities and Rural Districts --Agriculture the General Occupation--Commercial and Industrial Development--Growth of New York and Chica...

Struggle for Empire in North America--The Vast Region Called Louisiana --War Between England and France--New England Militia Besiege Quebec --Frontenac Strikes the Iroquois--The...

Landing of the Pilgrims--Their Abiding Faith in God's Goodness--The Agreement Signed on the Mayflower--A Winter of Hardship--The Indians Help the Settlers--Improved Conditions--...

New England Prospering--Outbreak of King Philip's War--Causes of the War--White or Indian Had to Go--Philip on the War-path--Settlements Laid in Ashes--The Attack on Hadley--The...

The Colony of New York--New Jersey Given Away to Favorites--Charter of Liberties and Franchises--The Dongan Charter--Beginnings of New York City Government--King James Driven fr...

The French in Canada--Champlain Attacks the Iroquois--Quebec a Military Post--Weak Efforts at Colonization--Fur-traders and Missionaries--The Foundation of New France--The Frenc...

The American Republic the Most Powerful of Nations--Military and Naval Strength--Railways and Waterways--Industry and Art--Manufactures--The New South--Foreign and Domestic Comm...

Where Conscience Was Free--Roger Williams and His Providence Colony-- Driven by Persecution from Massachusetts--Savages Receive Him Kindly --Coddington's Settlement in Rhode Isl...

Sir John Burgoyne's Campaign--His Bombastic Proclamation--The Tragic Story of Jane McCrea--Her Name a Rallying Cry--Washington Prevents Howe From Aiding Burgoyne--The Battle of...

Battle of Lake Erie--Master-Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry--Building a Fleet--Perry on the Lake--A Duel of Long Guns--Fearful Slaughter on the Lawrence--"Can Any of the Wounded...

The Confederate Government Organized--Fort Sumter--President Lincoln Calls for 75,000 Men--Command of the Union Forces Offered to Robert E. Lee--Lee Joins the Confederacy--Misso...

The British Move Upon the South--Spain Accedes to the Alliance Against England--Secret Convention Between France and Spain--Capture of Stony Point--John Paul Jones--The Bon Homm...

Writs of Assistance Issued--Excitement in Boston--The Stamp Act--Protests against Taxation Without Representation--Massachusetts Appoints a Committee of Correspondence--Samuel A...

Grant Appointed Lieutenant-General--Takes Command in Virginia--Battles of the Wilderness--The Two Armies--Battle of Cedar Creek--Sheridan's Ride--He Turns Defeat Into Victory--C...

Reconstruction in the South--The Congress and the President--Liberal Republican Movement--Nomination, Defeat and Death of Greeley--Troops Withdrawn by President Hayes--Foreign P...

Aggressiveness of Slavery--The Cotton States and Border States--The Fugitive Slave Law--Nullified in the North--Negroes Imported from Africa--The Struggle in Kansas--John Brown-...

The Missouri Compromise--Erie Canal Opened--Political Parties and Great National Issues--President Jackson Crushes the United States Bank--South Carolina Pronounces the Tariff L...

British Designs on the Southwest--New Orleans as a City of Refuge--The Baratarians--The Pirates Reject British Advances--General Jackson Storms Pensacola--Captain Reid's Splendi...

England and Spanish America--A Significant Declaration--The Key to England's Policy in South America--Alexander Hamilton and the South Americans--President Adams' Grandson a Fil...

The Battle of Lexington--The War of the Revolution Begun--Fort Ticonderoga Taken--Second Continental Congress--George Washington Appointed Commander-in-Chief--Battle of Bunker H...

General Grant Invests Vicksburg--The Confederate Garrison--Scenes in the Beleaguered City--The Surrender--Hooker Defeated at Chancellorsville-- Death of "Stonewall" Jackson--Gen...

The United States Taking the Lead in Civilization--Manhood Suffrage and Freedom of Worship--Humane Criminal Laws--Progress the Genius of the Nation--A Patriotic Report--State Bu...

Condition of the United States at the Close of the Revolution--New England Injured and New York Benefited Commercially by the Struggle-- Luxury of City Life--Americans an Agricu...

John Adams President--Jefferson and the French Revolution--The French Directory--Money Demanded From America--"Millions for Defence; Not One Penny for Tribute"--Naval Warfare wi...

The War on Land--Tecumseh's Indian Confederacy--Harrison at Tippecanoe-- General Hull and General Brock--A Fatal Armistice--Surrender of Detroit --English Masters of Michigan--G...

War With Mexico--General Zachary Taylor Defeats the Mexicans--Buena Vista--Mexicans Four to One--"A Little More Grape, Captain Bragg!"-- Glorious American Victory--General Scott...

French Decrees and British Orders in Council--Damage to American Commerce--The Embargo--Causes of the War of 1812--The Chesapeake and The Leopard--President and Little Belt--War...

The American Republic the Most Powerful of Nations--Military and Naval Strength--Railways and Waterways--Industry and Art--Manufactures--The New South--Foreign and Domestic Comm...

Expulsion of the Acadians--A Cruel Deportation--The Marquis De Montcalm--The Fort William Henry Massacre--Defeat of Abercrombie-- William Pitt Prosecutes the War Vigorously--For...

William Penn's Model Colony--Sketch of the Founder of Pennsylvania-- Comparative Humanity of Quaker Laws--Modified Freedom of Religion-- An Early Liquor Law--Offences Against Mo...

New England Prospering--Outbreak of King Philip's War--Causes of the War--White or Indian Had to Go--Philip on the War-path--Settlements Laid in Ashes--The Attack on Hadley--The...

The Union in 1850--Comparative Population of Cities and Rural Districts --Agriculture the General Occupation--Commercial and Industrial Development--Growth of New York and Chica...

A Land Without a History--Origin of the American Indians--Their Semi-civilization--The Spanish Colonial System--The King Was Absolute Master--The Council of the Indies--The Hier...

The Puritan Immigration--Wealth and Learning Seek These Shores--Charter Restrictions Dead Letters--A Stubborn Struggle for Self-government-- Methods of Election--The Early Gover...

Puritans and Education--Provision for Public Schools--Puritan Sincerity--Effect of Intolerance on the Community--Quakers Harshly Persecuted--The Salem Witchcraft Tragedy--Histor...

Arrogance of France--Americans and Louis XVI.--Genet Defies Washington --The People Support the President--War With the Indians--Defeat of St. Clair--Indians State Their Case--G...

The Colony of New York--New Jersey Given Away to Favorites--Charter of Liberties and Franchises--The Dongan Charter--Beginnings of New York City Government--King James Driven Fr...

Struggle for Empire in North America--The Vast Region Called Louisiana-- War Between England and France--New England Militia Besiege Quebec-- Frontenac Strikes the Iroquois--The...

The French in Canada--Champlain Attacks the Iroquois--Quebec a Military Post--Weak Efforts at Colonization--Fur-traders and Missionaries--The Foundation of New France--The Frenc...

No Classes Here--All Are Workers--Enormous Growth of Cities--Immigration --Civic Misgovernment--The Farming Population--Individuality and Self-reliance--Isolation Even in the Gr...

Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh--English Expedition to North Carolina--Failure of Attempts to Settle There--Virginia Dare--The Lost Colony--The Foundation of Jamestown--C...

Growth of New Netherland--Governor Stuyvesant's Despotic Rule--His Comments on Popular Election--New Amsterdam Becomes New York--The Planting of Maryland--Partial Freedom of Con...

Landing of the Pilgrims--Their Abiding Faith in God's Goodness--The Agreement Signed on the Mayflower--A Winter of Hardship--The Indians Help the Settlers--Improved Conditions--...

Causes of the Revolution--The Act of Navigation--Acts of Trade--Odious Customs Laws--English Jealousy of New England--Effect of Restrictions on Colonial Trade--Du Chatelet Fores...

Where Conscience Was Free--Roger Williams and His Providence Colony-- Driven by Persecution from Massachusetts--Savages Receive Him Kindly--Coddington's Settlement in Rhode Isla...

Henry Hudson's Discovery--Block Winters on Manhattan Island--The Dutch Take Possession--The Iroquois Friendly--Immigration of the Walloons--Charter of Privileges and Exemptions-...