General Histories.
Bancroft: History of the United States (12 vols., from the discovery of America to the adoption of the Constitution).
Hildreth: History of the United States (6 vols., from the discovery of America to 1820).
Bryant and Gay: History of the United States (from the discovery to 1880).
Ridpath: History of the United States.
Higginson: Young People’s History of the United States.
Aboriginal America.
Baldwin: Ancient America.
Donnelly: Atlantis.
Foster: Prehistoric Races of the United States.
Short: North Americans of Antiquity.
Ellis: The Red Man and the White Man.
H. H. Bancroft: Native Races of the Pacific States.
Bourke: The Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona.
The Period of the Discovery.
Irving: Columbus and his Companions.
Abbott: Christopher Columbus.
—— Discovery of America.
Towle: Vasco da Gama.
Helps: The Spanish Conquest of America (4 vols.).
Prescott: The Conquest of Mexico (3 vols.).
Abbott: Hernando Cortez.
Helps: Hernando Cortez.
Eggleston: Montezuma.
Wallace: *The Fair God, or the Last of the ’Tzins.
Prescott: The Conquest of Peru (2 vols.).
Towle: Pizarro.
—— Magellan.
Irving: The Conquest of Florida by De Soto.
Abbott: De Soto.
Simms: *Vasconselos (1538).
Towle: Drake, the Sea-King of Devon.
—— Sir Walter Ralegh.
Hale: Stories of Discovery.
Simms: *The Lily and the Totem (the story of the Huguenots at St. Augustine).
The Colonial Period.
Coffin: Old Times in the Colonies.
Simms: Life of John Smith.
Kingston: *The Settlers (1607).
Eggleston: Pocahontas.
Abbott: The Northern Colonies.
—— Miles Standish.
Longfellow: ‡The Courtship of Miles Standish.
Mrs. Child: *The First Settlers of New England.
——- *Hobomok.
Cheney: *A Peep at the Pilgrims.
Clay: Annals of the Swedes on the Delaware.
Banvard: Pioneers of the New World.
J. G. Holland: *The Bay Path (1638).
Paulding: *Koningsmarke (a tale of the Swedes on the Delaware).
Arthur: Cabinet History of New York.
Abbott: Peter Stuyvesant.
Irving: *Knickerbocker’s History of New York.
Abbott: King Philip.
Markham: King Philip’s War.
Cooper: *The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish (1675).
Palfrey: History of New England (4 vols.).
Hawthorne: *The Scarlet Letter.
Spofford: New England Legends.
Longfellow: ‡New England Tragedies.
Whittier: ‡Ballads of New England.
Hale: Stories of Adventure.
Abbott: Captain Kidd.
Banvard: Southern Explorers.
Abbott: The Southern Colonies.
Arthur: Cabinet History of Virginia.
Simms: *The Cassique of Kiawah (a story of the early settlement of South Carolina, 1684).
De Vere: Romance of American History.
Abbott: Chevalier de la Salle.
Parkman: Discovery of the Great West.
—— The Jesuits in North America.
Sparks: Life of Father Marquette.
Shea: Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi.
Parkman: Frontenac, and New France under Louis XIV.
Simms: *The Yemassee (1715).
Longfellow: ‡Evangeline.
Ladd: The Old French War.
Parkman: Wolfe and Montcalm.
—— The Conspiracy of Pontiac.
Paulding: *The Dutchman’s Fireside.
Cooper: *The Pathfinder.
—— *The Last of the Mohicans.
Kennedy: *Swallow Barn.
Mrs. Stowe: *The Minister’s Wooing.
Thackeray: *The Virginians.
The Period of the Revolution.
Abbott: The War of the Revolution.
—— George Washington.
Irving: Life of George Washington (5 vols.).
Headley: Washington and his Generals.
Longfellow: ‡Paul Revere’s Ride.
Lowell: ‡Grandmother’s Story of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Coffin: The Boys of ’76.
Cooper: *The Spy.
—— *The Pilot.
Neal: *Seventy-Six.
Greene: Life of Nathanael Greene.
Abbott: Life of Benjamin Franklin.
Parton: Life of Benjamin Franklin.
Sparks: The Works of Benjamin Franklin.
—— Treason of Benedict Arnold.
Arnold: Life of Benedict Arnold.
Campbell: ‡Gertrude of Wyoming.
Mrs. Child: *The Rebels.
Paulding: *The Old Continentals.
—— *The Bulls and the Jonathans.
Simms: *Eutaw.
Kennedy: *Horse-Shoe Robinson.
Grace Greenwood: *The Forest Tragedy.
Lossing: Field Book of the Revolution.
Carrington: Battles of the Revolution.
Wirt: The Life of Patrick Henry.
Dwight: Lives of the Signers.
Magoon: Orators of the American Revolution.
Greene: Historical View of the American Revolution.