The Story of American History Part 35

SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--For various topics in connection with Sir Walter Raleigh and Captain John Smith, see the Index to Fiske's _Old Virginia and her Neighbours_. Incidents in the Life of Captain John Smith: see John Esten Cooke's _Virginia_ (American Commonwealth Series), pp. 22-76. The Story of Pocahontas, Cooke's _Virginia_, pp. 35-103.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Towle's _Raleigh, his Voyages and Adventures_; Cooke's _Stories of the Old Dominion_; Eggleston's and Seelye's _Pocahontas_ (Ajax Series).

OUTSIDE READINGS.--Towle's _Magellan, or the First Voyage Round the World_.

CHAPTERS IV AND V. PAGES 47-72.

THE PILGRIMS.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--Many topics in connection with this chapter may be selected from Fiske's _The Beginnings of New England_, as, The Separatists, p. 66; Why the Pilgrims did not stay in Holland, p.

74; Voyage of the Mayflower, p. 80; The Pilgrims and the Indians, p. 83.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Griffis's _The Pilgrims and their Three Homes_; Moore's _Pilgrims and Puritans_; Abbott's _Captain Miles Standish_ (Ajax Series); Drake's _On Plymouth Rock_; Bacon's _Historic Pilgrimages in New England_.

OUTSIDE READINGS.--Jane G. Austin's _Standish of Standish_, _Betty Alden_, _Nameless n.o.bleman_, and _David Alden's Daughter_.

FOR READING OR RECITATION.--Mrs. Hemans's _Landing of the Pilgrims_; Longfellow's _Courts.h.i.+p of Miles Standish_; Bryant's _Twenty-Second of December_; Holmes's _The Pilgrim's Vision_.

CHAPTER VI. PAGES 73-87.

THE INDIANS.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--For special topics about the Indians, see Parkman's _Conspiracy of Pontiac_, Vol. I, p. 1, also the Introduction to Parkman's _Jesuits in North America_.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Brooks's _Story of the American Indian_; Drake's _Indian History for Young Folks_; Starr's _American Indians_; Shaler's _The Story of Our Continent_.

FOR READING OR RECITATION.--Longfellow's _Hiawatha_.

CHAPTER VII. PAGES 88-105.

THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK; THE QUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--Henry Hudson: his voyages, voyage upon the Great River, his tragic fate, see Fiske's _The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America_, Vol. I, pp. 83-95. William Penn: see the Index to Fiske's _The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America_.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--_The Great Peace Maker_ (Penn) (Daring Deed Series); Abbott's _Peter Stuyvesant_ (Ajax Series).

OUTSIDE READINGS.--b.u.t.terworth's _Wampum Belt_ (Penn); Irving's _Knickerbocker's History of New York_ (humorous and satirical account of the Dutch Colony of New Netherland); Paulding's _The Dutchman's Fireside_ (Colonial Life in New York).

CHAPTER VIII. PAGES 106-125.

THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--For a great variety of topics in connection with the French and Indian Wars and the overthrow of New France, the student will find the books of Parkman a vast storehouse of intensely fascinating reading matter. See the index to the various volumes. For example, read La Salle's Descent of the Mississippi, Parkman's _La Salle_, pp. 275-288; Braddock's March and Defeat; Parkman's _Montcalm and Wolfe_, Vol. I, p. 204, and The Heights of Abraham, Vol. II, p. 259-297.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Johnson's _Old French War_; Drake's _Border Wars of New England_.

OUTSIDE READINGS.-Abbott's _Life of King Philip_ (Ajax Series); Henty's _With Wolfe in Canada_; Cooper's _Last of the Mohicans_ (story of Seven Years' War); James Otis's _At the Siege of Quebec_.

CHAPTER IX. PAGES 126-138.

EVERYDAY LIFE IN COLONIAL TIMES.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--The great storehouse of facts regarding the social and domestic life of the American people is McMaster's _History of the People of the United States_ (5 vols. now ready). For topics see detailed index of each volume. Consult especially Vol. II, pp. 538-582, on "Town and Country Life in 1800." This work is somewhat voluminous for elementary work.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Earle's _Home Life in Colonial Days_; Earle's _Child Life in Colonial Days_, _Tavern and Stage Coach in Colonial Days_; Earle's _Sabbath in Puritan New England_; Earle's _Customs and Fas.h.i.+ons of Old New England_; Earle's _Colonial Dames and Goodwives_; Coffin's _Old Times in the Colonies_; Coffin's _Building the Nation_; Scudder's _Men and Manners in America 100 years Ago_; Wharton's _Through Colonial Doorways_; Wharton's _Colonial Days and Dames_; Fisher's _Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times_; Markham's _Colonial Days_; Hawthorne's _Grandfathers Chair_.

CHAPTERS X-XVIII. PAGES 139-295.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--For a series of topics on the American Revolution, to be read in connection with these nine chapters, consult the index to Fiske's _American Revolution_ (2 vols.).

REFERENCES FOR READING.--For the Revolution as a whole the two best works for supplementary reading in schools are perhaps Lodge's _Story of the Revolution_ and Fiske's _War of Independence_ (Riverside Literature Series). Lossing's _Field Book of the Revolution_ is voluminous but interesting, and fully ill.u.s.trated.

Among the scores of excellent works which may be consulted, the following may be safely recommended: Coffin's _Story of Liberty_; Fiske-Irving's _Was.h.i.+ngton and his Country_; Abbot's _Blue Jackets of '76_; Bacon's _Historic Pilgrimages in New England_; C. H. Woodman's _Boys and Girls of the Revolution_; Brooks's _Century Book of the American Revolution_; Drake's _Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777_; Seawell's _Paul Jones_; Abbott's _Paul Jones_ (Ajax Series); Brooks's _Story of the American Sailor_; Frost's _Swamp Fox_ (Marion).

OUTSIDE READING.--There are numerous books on the war of the Revolution suitable for outside reading. For the school grades for which this book is intended, the following books are interesting and for the most part instructive: Watson's _n.o.ble Deeds of our Fathers_; Watson's _Tea Party and Other Stories_; b.u.t.terworth's _Patriot Schoolmaster_ (Story of the Minute Men and Sons of Liberty); Otis's _Signal Boys of 1775_; Tomlinson's _Stories of the American Revolution_ (several series); Stoddard's _Red Patriot_; Thompson's _The Rangers or the Tory's Daughter_; Thompson's _Green Mountain Boys_; Otis's _Boys of Fort Schuyler_; _Patriot Boy_ (Was.h.i.+ngton) (Famous Boy Series); _Father of his Country_ (Was.h.i.+ngton) (Daring Deed Series); Abbott's _Life of Was.h.i.+ngton_ (Ajax Series); Scudder's _George Was.h.i.+ngton_; Brooks's _True Story of George Was.h.i.+ngton_; Miss Hoppens's _A Great Treason_ (Arnold and Andre); Cooper's _Last of the Mohicans_ (last French or Seven Years'

War); Cooper's _Lionel Lincoln_ (Boston at time of Bunker Hill); Cooper's _Pilot_ (Paul Jones).

These six novels by William Gilmore Simms furnish under the guise of fiction a connected and most readable account of the Revolution in the South from the fall of Charleston to 1782: _The Partisan_, _Mellichampe_, _The Scout_, _Katherine Walton_, _The Foragers_, _The Eutaws_.

See also Kennedy's _Horse Shoe Robinson_ (South Carolina in the Revolution); Churchill's _Richard Carvel_ (Paul Jones); Guerber's _Story of the Thirteen Colonies_; Guerber's _Story of the Great Republic_; Eggleston's _First Book in American History_; Johonnot's _Stories of our Country_; Mowry's _First Steps in the History of our Country_; Montgomery's _Beginner's American History_.

FOR READING OR RECITATION.--Longfellow's _Paul Revere's Ride_; Emerson's _Concord Hymn_; Holmes's _Grandmother's Story of the Battle of Bunker Hill_; Bryant's _Song of Marion's Men_; Pierpont's _General Warren's Address_; Finch's _Nathan Hale_; Bryant's _Nineteenth of April_; Simms's _Ballad of King's Mountain_.

CHAPTER XIX. PAGES 296-310.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--For topics to be read in connection with the life and career of Franklin, see the index to Fiske's _The American Revolution_, Fiske's _The Critical Period of American History_ (1783-1789), and Morse's _Benjamin Franklin_ (American Statesmen Series).

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Franklin's _Autobiography_ should be read before all other books on Franklin. Read also _Printer Boy_ (Franklin) (Famous Boy Series); _Poor Richards Story_ (Franklin) (Daring Deed Series); Abbott's _Benjamin Franklin_ (Ajax Series) and Parton's _Life of Franklin_.

OUTSIDE READINGS.--b.u.t.terworth's _True to his Home_ (Franklin); Brooks's _True Story of Benjamin Franklin_.

CHAPTER XX. PAGES 311-322.

EVERYDAY LIFE ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.