Audiobook: World’s Story Volume XIII: The United States
World’s Story Volume XIII: The United States
1 - An August morning with Farragut, by W. H. Overend, American painter, painting, frontispiece
- Download An August morning with Farragut, by W. H. Overend, American painter, painting, frontispiece audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part I: The colonies win their freedom: Historical note audio
- Download Congress and Valley Forge (1777-1778), by John Fiske audio
- Download Baron Steuben drilling the colonial troops at Valley Forge, by Edwin A. Abbey, American artist, 1852, painting p. 4 audio
- Download The message of Lydia Darrah (1777), by Elizabeth F. Ellet audio
- Download Mollie Pitcher (1787), by Kate Brownlee Sherwood audio
- Download The capture of Major André (1780), by Jared Sparks audio
- Download A visit to General Marion (1781), by Charles Carleton Coffin audio
- Download When Cornwallis surrendered (1781), By Burton Egbert Stevenson audio
- Download George III acknowledges the independence of the colonies (1782), by Elkanah Watson audio
- Download When Washington resigned his commission (1783), by R. M. Devens audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part II: Life in revolutionary days: Historical note audio
- Download The Meschianza at Philadelphia (1778), by John F. Watson audio
- Download A New England Thanksgiving dinner in 1779, by Juliana Smith audio
- Download A call on Lady Washington in 1780, by Charles D. Platt audio
- Download How people traveled in revolutionary times (1775-1781), by John Bach McMaster audio
- Download Abraham Davenport (1780), by John G. Whittier audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part III: The first years of the nation: Historical note audio
- Download America, by Samuel Francis Smith audio
- Download How Philadelphia celebrated the ratification of the Constitution (1788), by John Bach McMaster audio
- Download The first Inauguration Day (1789), by John Bach McMaster audio
- Download The death of Washington (1799) audio
- Download Red Jacket and the missionary (end of the eighteenth century), by Charles H. L. Johnston audio
- Download The burning of the Philadelphia (1804), by Cyrus Townssend Brady audio
- Download The trials of the British Minister in Jefferson's administration (1803-1809), by James Parton audio
- Download The Clermont's first advertisement audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part IV: The Louisiana Territory: Historical note audio
- Download Napoleon plans to sell Louisiana (1803), by A. E. Winship and Robert W. Wallace audio
- Download The ''bargain'' purchase of the Louisiana Territory (1803), by James Parton audio
- Download Taking possession of Louisiana Territory, by Thure de Thulstrupp, painting p. 114 audio
- Download Exploring the Louisiana Territory, by James Parton audio
- Download Lewis and Clarke at the source of the Missouri, from their journal audio
- Download Sa-Cá-Ga-We-A (1804), by Edna Dean Proctor audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part V: The war of 1812: Historical note audio
- Download What caused the second war with England (1812), by Agnes C. Laut audio
- Download How Winfield Scott rescued the Irishmen, by James Barnes audio
- Download On the capture of the Guerrière, by Philip Freneau audio
- Download The Shannon and the Chesapeake (1813), by Thomas Tracy Bouvé audio
- Download How Perry saved the Northwest (1813), by Charles Morris audio
- Download The battle of Lake Erie, from an engraving, painting p. 148 audio
- Download The Star-Spangled Banner (1814), by Francis Scott Key audio
- Download Tecumseh, the Indian Brigadier-General (1813), by Charles H. L. Johnston audio
- Download The Privateers of 1812, by Willis J. Abbot audio
- Download The ''Horse-Marines'' of 1814, by John Bach McMaster audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part VI: A period of growth and expansion: Historical note audio
- Download The opening of the Erie Canal, by John Bach McMaster audio
- Download The guest of the Nation, by Daniel Webster audio
- Download The highest peak of the Rocky Mountains, by John Charles Frémont audio
- Download The first telegram, by R. M. Devens audio
- Download A little Scotch pioneer in Wisconsin (the first half of the nineteenth century), by John Muir audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part VII: The Mexican War: Historical note audio
- Download ''Remember the Alamo !'', by Cyrus Townsend Brady audio
- Download The importance of one vote, by W. H. Vail audio
- Download The storming of Chapultepec (1847), by James Barnes audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part VIII: California: Historical note audio
- Download When the English discovered California (1577-1579), by Edward Everett Hale audio
- Download On the California Coast in the Thirties, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. audio
- Download How the ''Forty-Niners'' reached California, by Henry Childs Merwin audio
- Download Early business days in San Francisco (1849-1853), by Henry Childs Merwin audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part IX: The shadow of Civil War: Historical note audio
- Download The ''Broadcloth Mob'' of Boston (1835), by Harriet Martineau audio
- Download On the underground railway (about 1858), by Francis Grierson audio
- Download The great Lincoln-Douglas debate (1858), by Francis Grierson audio
- Download Just before the war (1858), by Morris Schaff audio
- Download The last moment of John Brown, by Thomas Hovenden, born in Ireland, 1810, died in America in 1895, painting p. 290 audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part X: From Fort Sumter to Chancellorsville: Historical note audio
- Download The bombardment of Fort Sumter (1861), by Orville J. Victor audio
- Download Battle-Hymn of the Republic (1861), by Julia Ward Howe audio
- Download The gathering of the Great Army (1861), by Charles Carleton Coffin audio
- Download Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell audio
- Download The Merrimac and the monitor (1862), by John S. Wise audio
- Download Taken prisoner at Shiloh (1862), by Henry M. Stanley audio
- Download The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (United States, 1830-1900), painting p. 346 audio
- Download Boston Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part XI: The turning-point: Historical note audio
- Download ''Stonewall'' Jackson by the river (1863), by Mary Johnston audio
- Download A three-hour truce at Vicksburg (1863), by W. H. Tunnard, of the Confederate Army audio
- Download Union gunboats on the Mississippi, from an engraving, painting p. 366 audio
- Download A drummer-boy at Gettysburg (1863), by Harry M. Kieffer audio
- Download John Burns of Gettysburg (1863), by Bret Harte audio
- Download The Gettysburg Address, by Abraham Lincoln audio
- Download Alabama dressmaking in the days of the Blockade (1861-1865), by Parthenia Antoinette Hague audio
- Download General order number 11, by G. C. Brigham, painting p. 390 audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part XII: The end of the struggle: Historical note audio
- Download The Battle of the Crater, Petersburg, by J. D. Woodward, painting p. 406 audio
- Download The day of the evacuation of Richmond (1865), by Morris Schaff audio
- Download Carrying a message to General Lee, by John S. Wise audio
- Download Lee's surrender (1865), by Morris Schaff audio
- Download America after the Civil War, by William Ewart Gladstone audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part XIII: Stories of the Western Indians: Historical note audio
- Download A Choctaw holiday (about 1850), by George Catlin audio
- Download What the Indians thought of the White Men, by George Bird Grinnell audio
- Download The Indian story of the Custer tragedy (1877), by James McLaughlin audio
- Download The Temecula Valley, and American Grand Pré (1869), by Helen Hunt Jackson audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part XIV: The Spanish War: Historical note audio
- Download Cuba to Columbia, by Will Carleton (April, 1896) audio
- Download The sinking of the Maine (1898), by Willis J. Abbot audio
- Download The battle of Santiago (1898), from the account of a newspaper correspondent audio
- Download The charge at El Caney, by Frank T. Merrill, painting p. 488 audio
- Download The flag goes by, by Henry Holcomb Bennett audio
- Download The United States, Volume II: Part XV: The twentieth century: Historical note audio
- Download The romance of the reindeer (1905), by Mary Gay Humphreys audio
- Download Totem poles, Alaska, photograph p. 504 audio
- Download Learning coal-mining, by Joseph Husband audio
- Download The social value of the telephone in the United States, by Herbert N. Casson audio
- Download How the Panama railroad was built (1849-1855), by Hugh C. Weir audio
- Download The steam shovel at Panama, by Hugh C. Weir audio
- Download The triumph of the wireless (1909), by Captain J. B. Ranson, R.N.R. audio
- Download The National Red Cross at work, by Constance D. Leupp audio
- Download Gettysburg fifty years after, photograph p. 558 audio
- Download ''America for me'', by Henry van Dyke audio
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This is the thirteenth 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 XIII is the second volume of the history of the United States, exploring topics from the Civil War, the settlement on the West Coast, and new scientific discoveries from the 19th and early 20th centuries. - Summary by Sonia
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