This chronicle of our nation from pre-Columbian times is not a dry collection of dates and facts but rather a dramatic story filled with twists and turns, heroes and villains, and even comic relief. Photos & illustrations.
In this book, the author investigates American origin stories, from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address, in order to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of ...
Backgrounds and Beginnings, The Crucial Years 1775, The War of Independence, Evolution of the Flag, Creating a system of Government, The War of 1812, Religion in a Free Country, The Tragic of Civil War, Trailblazers and Mountain men, ...
In this new, enlarged and up-to-date work, we have the greatest book that Dr. van Loon has yet written, greater than The Story of Mankind because its subject did not require the compression that the first book did; no less incisive yet more ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
The Story of America tells our story because it is important in itself. It is a great epic and the unique tale of how hundreds of millions of people took possession of a vast continent, often at the expense of the original inhabitants.
""The Story Of America"" is a historical book written by Elia Wilkinson Peattie in 1889. The book covers the romantic incidents of American history from the discovery of America to the present time.
