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Poems of American History

by Burton Egbert Stevenson

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  1. 1America
  2. 2Poems of American History
  3. 3Introduction
  4. 4Part I — The Colonial Period
  5. 5Chapter I — The Discovery of America
  6. 6Chapter II — In the Wake of Columbus
  7. 7Chapter III — The Settlement of Virginia
  8. 8Chapter IV — The Dutch at New Amsterdam
  9. 9Chapter V — The Settlement of New England
  10. 10Chapter VI — Religious Persecutions in New England
  11. 11Chapter VII — King Philip’s War and the Witchcraft Delusion
  12. 12Chapter VIII — The Struggle for the Continent
  13. 13Part II — The Revolution
  14. 14Chapter I — The Coming of Discontent
  15. 15Chapter II — The Bursting of the Storm
  16. 16Chapter III — The Colonists Take the Offensive
  17. 17Chapter IV — Independence
  18. 18Chapter V — The First Campaign
  19. 19Chapter VI — “The Fate of Sir Jack Brag”
  20. 20Chapter VII — The Second Stage
  21. 21Chapter VIII — The War on the Water
  22. 22Chapter IX — New York and the “Neutral Ground”
  23. 23Chapter X — The War in the South
  24. 24Chapter XI — Peace
  25. 25Part III — The Period of Growth
  26. 26Chapter I — The New Nation
  27. 27Chapter II — The Second War With England
  28. 28Chapter III — The West
  29. 29Chapter IV — Through Five Administrations
  30. 30Chapter V — The War With Mexico
  31. 31Chapter VI — Fourteen Years of Peace
  32. 32Part IV — The Civil War
  33. 33Chapter I — The Slavery Question
  34. 34Chapter II — The Gauntlet
  35. 35Chapter III — The North Gets Its Lesson
  36. 36Chapter IV — The Grand Army of the Potomac
  37. 37Chapter V — The War in the West
  38. 38Chapter VI — The Coast and the River
  39. 39Chapter VII — Emancipation
  40. 40Chapter VIII — The “Grand Army’s” Second Campaign
  41. 41Chapter IX — With Grant on the Mississippi
  42. 42Chapter X — The Final Struggle
  43. 43Chapter XI — Winslow and Farragut
  44. 44Chapter XII — The Martyr President
  45. 45Chapter XIII — Peace
  46. 46Part V — The Period of Expansion
  47. 47Chapter I — Reconstruction and After
  48. 48Chapter II — The Year of a Hundred Years
  49. 49Chapter III — The Conquest of the Plains
  50. 50Chapter IV — The Second Assassination
  51. 51Chapter V — The War With Spain
  52. 52Chapter VI — The New Century
  53. 53Chapter VII — The World War
  54. 54Notes and Indexes

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