The Story of Liberty
by Charles Carleton Coffin Author, Google books Other
(From Amazon): This is a reprint of Charles Coffin's history of the march of mankind from "slavery to freedom", first published in 1879, and climaxing with an account of the role of Providence in the founding of America as the nursery of freedom.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- ebook - digital copy
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 31
- Pages
- 404
- Suggested Grades
- 5th - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- World
- Historical Setting
- 1215 - 1621
- Edition
- Digital copy of original
- Copyright
- public domain
- URL
- http://books.google.ca/books?id=W3kOAAAAYAAJ&dq...
Chapters
- 1 John Lackland and the Barons
- 2 The Man who Preached after He was Dead
- 3 The Fire that was Kindled in Bohemia
- 4 What Laurence Coster and John Guttenberg did for Liberty
- 5 The Men who ask Questions
- 6 How a Man Tried to Reach the East by Sailing West
- 7 The New Home of Liberty
- 8 A Boy who objected to Marrying his Brother's Widow
- 9 The Man who Can Do no Wrong
- 10 The Boy who Sung for his Breakfast
- 11 What the Boy who Sung for his Breakfast Saw in Rome
- 12 The Boy-cardinal
- 13 The Boy-emperor
- 14 The Field of the Cloth of Gold
- 15 The Men who Obey Orders
- 16 Plans that did not Come to Pass
- 17 The Man who Split the Church in Twain
- 18 The Queen who Burned Heretics
- 19 How Liberty Began in France
- 20 The Man who Filled the World with Woe
- 21 Progress of Liberty in England
- 22 How the Pope Put Down the Heretics
- 23 The Queen of the Scots
- 24 St. Bartholomew
- 25 How the 'Beggars' Fought for their Rights
- 26 Why the Queen of Scotland Lost her Head
- 27 The Retribution that Followed Crime
- 28 William Brewster and his Friends
- 29 The Star of Empire
- 30 The 'Half-moon'
- 31 Strangers and Pilgrims
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