The Story of American History for Elementary SchoolsBlaisdell, Albert F. (Albert Franklin)
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The Story of American History for Elementary Schools
Blaisdell, Albert F. (Albert Franklin)
United States -- History
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 Nobleman_, and _David Alden's Daughter_.
FOR READING OR RECITATION.--Mrs. Hemans's _Landing of the Pilgrims_;
Longfellow's _Courtship 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.--Butterworth'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.
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