A Child's First Book of American History

Sections

• 1 They Never Tasted Dew So Sweet: Lief Ericson Finds Vineland 1000ad
• 2 The Light: Columbus Discovers America 1492
• 3 The Troublesome Corpse: The Quest for the Seven Cities 1500-1542
• 4 Cradle of Our Liberties: The Founding of Jamestown 1673
• 5 Freedom To Worship God: The Voyage of the Mayflower 1620
• 6 Black Robe: Marquette and Joliet 1673
• 7 A Clean-Made People: How the Indians Lived 1700
• 8 Shoot Um All Down All One Pigeon: The Delawares Capture James Smith 1755
• 9 Poor Richard: Colonial America Produces a Genius 1706-1790
• 10 Soldier Washington: The Fresh and Indian Wars 1754-1763
• 11 Mohawk Raiders: The Boston Tea Party 1773
• 12 Yankee Doodle: The Coming of a Revolution 1775
• 13 We Hold These Truths: Jefferson Writes The Deceleration of Independence 1775
• 14 The Winter of Dispair: Valley Forge 1777-1778
• 15 March to Vincennes: The War in the West 1779
• 16 The World Turned Upside Down: Victory at Yorktown 1781
• 17 We the People: We Adopt A Constitution 1787-1788
• 18 In Peace As In War: Washington Is Inaugurated 1789
• 19 Pig In a Poke: The Lewis and Clack Expedition 1803-1806
• 20 Old Hickory and The Pirate: The Battle For New Orleans 1815
• 21 Posioned Arrows and Grizzly Bears: Fur Trapping In the Old Southwest 1820-1840
• 22 Dame Schools and Blab Schools: American Education to the McGuffey Readers 1836
• 23 Remember the Alamo: Texas Fight for Independence 1836
• 24 Mark Twain's Mississippi: The Boom Years of Steam Boating 1811-1873
• 25 By the North Star: The Underground Railroad 1804-1860
• 26 Lower Away!: The Golden Years of Whaling 1840-1860
• 27 Christmas At Donner Lake: The Settlement of California 1846
• 28 A Word that Burns Like Fever: God is Discovered in California 1848
• 29 Proving Ground: The War With Mexico 1846-1848
• 30 The Tall Sucker: Lincoln Debates with Douglas 1858
• 31 How the News Reached Nevada: Riding the Pony Express 1860
• 32 Johnny Reb: The South Fires on Sumter 1861
• 33 The Secret of the Old Desk: From Bull Run to Gettysburg 1861-1863
• 34 When The World Ended: Sherman's March to the Sea and the Surrender at Appomattox 1865
• 35 Ou! Bum! Haugh!: The First Game of Intercollegiate Football 1869
• 36 The Bones of Men and Animals: The Life on a Cattle Drive 1867-1884
• 37 The Golden Spike: East Joins West at Promontory Point 1869
• 38 Prairie Tragedy: The Great Chicago Fire 1871
• 39 Only Comanche Survived: Custer's Last Stand 1876
• 40 Six Eggs: Booker T. Washington Builds a School 1881
• 41 America on Wheels: The Automobile to the Model T 1893-1908
• 42 Smoke in the Harbor: The Spanish-American War 1898
• 43 Please Do Not Shoot the Umpire: Modern World Series Baseball Begins 1903
• 44 Wizard of Electricity: The Miracle Man of Menlo Park 1847-1931
• 45 Nails in the Coffin of Kaiser: The United States of World War One 1917-1918
• 46 Tommy and His Crystal Set: America Discovers the Radio 1920-1930
• 47 Which Way is Ireland?: Lindbergh Flies to Paris 1927
• 48 War Is a Contagion: Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor 1941
• 49 Operation Overlord: We Land on Normandy Beach 1944
• 50 The Lone Plane: Birth of the Atomic Age 1941