Hörbuch: World’s Story Volume XII: The United States
World’s Story Volume XII: The United States
1 - Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting, frontispiece
- Download Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting, frontispiece audio
- Download The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note audio
- Download The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas audio
- Download Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller audio
- Download Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524) audio
- Download The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note audio
- Download Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober audio
- Download A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca audio
- Download The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto audio
- Download When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving audio
- Download The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving audio
- Download The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note audio
- Download The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske audio
- Download How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden audio
- Download How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F. Lummis audio
- Download The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis audio
- Download The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical note audio
- Download The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft audio
- Download The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey audio
- Download John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith audio
- Download Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painting p. 122 audio
- Download The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston audio
- Download Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan audio
- Download The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, painting p. 136 audio
- Download How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend Brady audio
- Download The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note audio
- Download When Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John Brereton audio
- Download The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, painting p. 160 audio
- Download The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis audio
- Download The challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow audio
- Download The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. 174 audio
- Download Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel Hawthorne audio
- Download How Providence won its name (1636), by George Bancroft audio
- Download The Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel Hawthorne audio
- Download Questions that the Indians asked John Eliot audio
- Download The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note audio
- Download The first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John Fiske audio
- Download How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis audio
- Download Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis audio
- Download Wouter van Twiller, governor of New Netherland, by Washington Irving audio
- Download The edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter, 1836-1905, painting p. 218 audio
- Download How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving audio
- Download William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March Tappan audio
- Download Penn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, painting p. 238 audio
- Download The United States Part VII: Stories of the Puritans: Historical note audio
- Download Sunday in the New England colonies (seventeenth century), by Alice Morse Earle audio
- Download Calling a minister three centuries ago (1652), by Eva March Tappan audio
- Download The king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead Whittier audio
- Download How Connecticut saved her charter (1687), by W. H. Carpenter and T. S. Arthur audio
- Download Sir William Phips, treasure-seeker and soldier (latter part of the seventeenth century), by Charles C. B. Seymour audio
- Download Were there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John Fiske audio
- Download The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note audio
- Download The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott audio
- Download The mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300 audio
- Download The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself audio
- Download The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister audio
- Download The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman audio
- Download The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake audio
- Download The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note audio
- Download Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield audio
- Download Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft audio
- Download Braddock's defeat (1755), by John Fiske audio
- Download When Israel Putnam was captured by the Indians, an incident of the French and Indian war (1758), by Oliver W. B. Peabody audio
- Download The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood audio
- Download The prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander Henry audio
- Download The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note audio
- Download Everyday life in the early colonies, by George Cary Eggleston audio
- Download Blackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John Fiske audio
- Download Judge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel Sewall audio
- Download An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding audio
- Download The dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green Winslow audio
- Download The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note audio
- Download Benjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James Parton audio
- Download The Boston massacre (1770), by Nathaniel Hawthorne audio
- Download The Boston Tea-Party (1773), by John Fiske audio
- Download Patrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, American artist, 1817-1895, painting p. 456 audio
- Download ''Give me liberty, or give me death !'' (1775), by Patrick Henry audio
- Download The United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical note audio
- Download The first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett Hale audio
- Download Grandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry, by Oliver Wendell Holmes audio
- Download When Washington took command (1775), by Henry Cabot Lodge audio
- Download How Fort Moultrie was held for the colonies (1776), by George Bancroft audio
- Download The defense of Fort Moultrie, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting p. 494 audio
- Download The Declaration of Independence (1776), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson audio
- Download Nathan Hale (1776), by Francis Miles Finch audio
- Download How Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward Everett audio
- Download Why Cornwallis failed to ''bag the old fox'' (1777), by John Fiske audio
- Download The marching song of Stark's men (1777), by Edward Everett Hale audio
- Download Burgoyne's surrender (1777), by John Fiske audio
- Download The United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical note audio
- Download How Daniel Boone saved Boonesborough (1775), by Charles C. B. Seymour audio
- Download A campaign through the water (1778), by George Rogers Clark audio
- Download How the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend Brady audio
- Download The first salute to the flag (1778), by Sarah Orne Jewett audio
- Download John Paul Jones in the revolution (1775-1781), by Joel Tyler Headley audio
- Download The fight between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, by Walt Whitman, from an old engraving, painting p. 588 audio
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This is the twelfth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Part XII compiles stories about the early history of the United States, starting with the first explorators, the fights with the native Americans, the early settlers and culminating with the struggle for independence from the European leaders. - Summary by Sonia
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