1799 Washington’s Death
Light Horse Harry (famous funeral oration before Congress), p. [217]
A King of Men, p. [233]
When Washington Died, p. [234]
1801-1835 Expounding the Constitution (John Marshall)
The Boy of the Frontier, p. [427]
The Young Lieutenant, p. [433]
Serving the Cause, p. [434]
At Valley Forge, p. [435]
Silver Heels, p. [436]
Without Bread, p. [437]
His Father, p. [438]
His Mother, p. [438]
Three Stories, p. [439]
The Constitution, p. [442]
Expounding the Constitution, p. [444]
The Great Chief Justice, p. [446]
What of the Constitution, p. [448]
1812-15 Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812 and the Creek War
Fort Mims, p. [289]
Davy Crockett, p. [290]
Chief Weatherford, p. [291]
Sam Houston, p. [295]
Why Jackson was Named Old Hickory, p. [297]
The Cotton-Bales, p. [299]
After the Battle of New Orleans, p. [300]
1820 Missouri Compromise
Only a Reprieve, p. 310
1823 Monroe Doctrine
Hail! Neighbour Republics! p. [266]
America for the Americans, p. [268]
1824-25 Lafayette Visits America
We are Grateful, Lafayette! p. [420]
Welcome! Friend of America! p. [422]
1826 Fiftieth Anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence
His Last Toast (John Adams), p. [91]
On the Fourth of July (Jefferson), p. [313]
1861-65 War for the Union, and Abraham Lincoln
Only a Reprieve, p. [310]
The Cabin in the Clearing, p. [175]
How He Learned to be Just, p. [176]
Off to New Orleans, p. [177]
The Kindness of Lincoln, p. [178]
Lincoln and the Children, p. [181]
The President and the Bible, p. [183]
Washington and Lincoln, Speak! p. [185]
Gettysburg Address, p. [186]
1858-1919 Theodore Roosevelt and the Liberation of Cuba
The Boy Who Grew Strong, p. [45]
Sagamore Hill, p. [50]
The Children of Sagamore Hill, p. [52]
Off with John Burroughs, p. [53]
The Big Stick, p. [54]
A-Hunting Trees with John Muir, p. [55]
The Bear Hunters’ Dinner, p. [56]
Hunting in Africa, p. [57]
The Ever Faithful Island, p. [59]
The Colonel of the Rough Riders, p. [61]
The River of Doubt, p. [65]
Theodore Roosevelt (a Tribute), p. [69]
II
STORY PROGRAMME OF SOUTH AMERICA’S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE
The reader, teacher, or story-teller, who follows this outline, will find that it covers a short consecutive history of one of the most important and courageous world-struggles for Freedom.
Portuguese America—Brazil—holds the honour of having declared its Republic with practically no shedding of blood.
The struggle of the Spanish-American Colonies was conducted for long years against fearful odds. And their winning of the victory helped to make permanent the independence if both North and South America. Therefore, every school child in the United States should know something of the heroic history of our neighbour Republics.
SPANISH AMERICA
Discovery
The Sea of Darkness, p. [3]
The Fortunate Isles, p. [5]
The Absurd Truth, p. [7]
Cathay the Golden, p. [10]
The Emerald Islands, p. [12]
The Magnificent Return, p. [13]
The Fatal Pearls, p. [15]
Queen Isabella’s Page, p. [21]
The Twin Cities, p. [24]
The Pearls Again, p. [26]
Spanish America under Spain’s Rule
The Spanish Galleons, p. [327]
Venezuela’s Struggle for Independence (Miranda)
The Romance of Miranda, p. [331]
The Mysterious Stranger, p. [89]
The Mystery Ship, p. [335]
The End of the Mystery Ship, p. [339]
The Great and Glorious Fifth, p. [341]
A Terrible Thing, p. [343]
End of the Romance, p. [344]
Venezuela’s Struggle for Independence (Bolivar)
The Precious Jewel, p. [373]
The Fiery Young Patriot, p. [376]
Seeing Bolivar, p. [378]
Uncle Paez, the Lion of the Apure, p. [382]
Angostura, p. [384]
Great Colombia (formed by Bolivar)
The Crossing, p. [385]
Peru Next, p. [388]
Argentina’s Struggle for Independence (San Martin)
The Boy Soldier, p. [237]
The Patriot Who Kept Faith, p. [238]
When San Martin Came, p. [240]
Argentina’s Independence Day, p. [243]
A Great Idea, p. [243]
The Mighty Andes, p. [245]
The Real San Martin, p. [247]
The Fighting Engineer of the Andes, p. [248]
Chile’s Struggle for Independence (San Martin and O’Higgins)
The Son of the Barefoot Boy, p. [395]
The Single Star Flag, p. [397]
The Hero of Rancagua, p. [398]
The Hannibal of the Andes, p. [249]
Not for Himself, p. [254]
Cochrane, El Diablo, p. [255]
Peru’s Struggle for Independence (San Martin)
Our Brothers, Ye Shall be Free! p. [256]
The Fall of the City of the Kings, p. [257]
San Martin the Conqueror, p. [261]
Lima’s Greatest Day, p. [265]
Hail! Neighbour Republics! p. [266]
America for the Americans, p. [268]
Guayaquil (now in Ecuador); its Struggle for Independence
What One American Did, p. [271]
The Amazing Meeting, p. [272]
End of the Struggle of Peru and Chile for Independence (Bolivar and O’Higgins)
What Happened Afterward, p. [274]
The Mystery Solved, p. [276]
The Patriot Ruler, p. [400]
First Soldier, First Citizen, p. [402]
Chile as She is, p. [403]
The Break, p. [389]
Bolivar, the Man, p. [390]
Other Spanish-American Republics
The Break, p. [389]
One of Twenty, p. [405]
Spain’s Last Stand, Cuba
The Ever Faithful Island, p. [59]
The Colonel of the Rough Riders, p. [61]
Arbitration and Peace
The Better Way, p. [406]