Chapter VIII: Introduction: To American History

EUROPEAN BEGINNINGS

By Alice M. Atkinson

12mo, cloth, xvi + 303 Pages, illustrated, 75 cents.

This volume has been prepared to meet the need of the sixth grade of the grammar school for a short and simple introduction to the history of the United States to accord with the recommendations of the Committee of Eight of the American Historical Association. In a clear, straightforward story full of interest for young readers it tells about some of the events that make up the history of Europe from the days of Greece and Rome to the colonization of America. The wealth of pertinent illustrations adds to the interest and value of the book, and the open, attractive type page makes easy reading. Teachers will find the material well arranged for class purposes, each section being of suitable length for one lesson and fully provided with helps in the way of suggestive questions and references for further reading in class.

The purpose throughout has been to tell vividly, simply, and fully about a few great persons and events; to maintain strict historical accuracy; and to bring the past into relation with the present at as many points as possible. Primitive man, Rome and Greece, the Northmen, the Church, the Crusades, medieval life in town and country, and discoveries and inventions are among the subjects treated. The narrative ends with the death of Queen Elizabeth and the movement toward the colonization of America.

English history, wherever possible, forms the basis of the story, giving the clearness and simplicity of treatment necessary in a history for the grammar grades. Altogether, this book in a new field is admirably adapted to successful use in American schools.

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BLAISDELL'S

BOOKS ON HISTORY

By ALBERT F. BLAISDELL

STORIES FROM ENGLISH HISTORY

12mo, cloth, 191 pages, illustrated, 40 cents.

Forty of the most interesting events in English history, from the earliest times to the present day, form the subjects of these chapters, which have been carefully edited and rewritten from standard writers for the use of pupils in grades five to eight.

THE STORY OF AMERICAN HISTORY

12mo, cloth, 440 pages, illustrated, 60 cents.

The story of our country is here told in twenty-six short chapters. Each one connects some leading event with an important historical character. Picturesque accounts are given of dramatic events, manners of olden times, and exceptional deeds of valor. The book provides suitable reading for pupils in the middle grades of the grammar school.

HERO STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY

By Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball, formerly Instructor in The Browne, and Nichols School, Cambridge, Mass. 12mo, cloth, 259 pages, illustrated, 50 cents.

This book may be used either as a supplementary reader in American history for the fifth and sixth grades in elementary schools or for collateral reading in connection with a formal textbook of a somewhat higher grade.

SHORT STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY

By Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball, formerly Instructor in The Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, Mass. 12mo, cloth, 146 pages, illustrated, 40 cents.

This collection of interesting stories is designed for supplementary reading in the fourth and fifth grades of elementary schools. It contains eighteen vivid narratives of dramatic events which took place during the first two hundred years in the history of our country. Each story will appeal to the young reader because of its human interest and because of its presentation of the picturesque life of our forefathers.

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FROM TRAIL TO RAILWAY THROUGH THE APPALACHIANS

By ALBERT PERRY BRIGHAM

Professor of Geology in Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y.

12mo, cloth, 188 pages, with maps and illustrations, 50 cents.

This volume is designed to aid the study of American history and geography in the upper grades of grammar and first year of high schools. It gives the story of the great roads across the Appalachians, telling where they are, why they run as they do, and what their history has been. The evolution from Indian trails to modern rapid transit is studied in the Berkshires, along the Hudson and Mohawk, across the uplands from Philadelphia and Baltimore, and through the Great Valley to Tennessee and Kentucky.

The book shows how the waves of migration swept through the passes from the seaboard to the country west of the mountains, and the essential physiographic features of the eastern United States are worked in as a part of the narrative.

William M. Davis, _Professor of Geology_, _Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass._: Brigham's From Trail to Railway is a serviceable
example of a class of books that I hope to see increase in number.

Amos W. Farnham, _State Normal School_, _Oswego, N.Y._: From Trail
to Railway is written in Professor Brigham's clear and strong way
of saying things, and any one who knows the man can feel him as he
reads if he cannot see him. The style is well suited to the grades
for which the book is written, and the story of pioneer life is
one to engage the interest of history and geography pupils alike.

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READING BOOKS ON AMERICAN HISTORY

Blaisdell: Story of American History $0.60

Blaisdell and Ball: Hero Stories from American History .50

Blaisdell and Ball: Short Stories from American History .40

Brigham: Geographic Influences in American History 1.25

Catherwood: Heroes of the Middle West .50

Collins: History of Vermont .80

Davis: Under Six Flags. The Story of Texas .50

Faris: Real Stories from Our History .60

Fassett: Colonial Life in New Hampshire .60

Fiske: How the United States became a Nation .50

Fiske-Irving: Washington and his Country .60

Franklin: Autobiography .40

Gayley and Flaherty: Poetry of the People .50

Hitchcock: The Louisiana Purchase .60

Lane and Hill: American History in Literature .50

Lawler: Columbus and Magellan .40

Montgomery: Heroic Ballads .50

Moore-Tiffany: From Colony to Commonwealth .60

Pilgrims and Puritans .60

Williams: Some Successful Americans .50

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