The Story of American History for Elementary Schools

Outside Readings. – Barnes's Hero of Lake Erie (Commodore Perry); Seawell's Midshipman Paulding (Commodore Paulding); Seawell's Little Jarvis (cruises of the Constellation); Seawell's Decatur and Somers; George Cary Eggleston's three stories: Signal Boys, Captain Sam, and Big Brother.

For Reading or Recitation. – Holmes's Old Ironsides; Key's The Star-Spangled Banner.

Chapter XXII. Pages 339-352THE SETTLEMENT OF THE PACIFIC COAST

Topics for Collateral Reading. – For special topics in connection with the settlement of the Pacific coast consult Barrows's Oregon and Royce's California (both volumes in the American Commonwealth's Series).

References for Reading. – Irving's Astoria and Dana's Two Years before the Mast were written many years ago, but present vivid pen-pictures of the early days on the Pacific coast.

Chapters XXIII-XXV. Pages 353-405THE WAR FOR THE UNION

Topics for Collateral Reading. – The literature of the Civil War is so voluminous that the utmost care must be used in the selection of even the best books for collateral reading.

For school purposes two of the best briefer books for supplementary use are Champlin's Young Folks' History of the War for the Union and Dodge's Bird's-Eye View of the Civil War. Consult also Nichol's Story of the Great March (Sherman); Swinton's Twelve Decisive Battles of the War; Drake's Battle of Gettysburg; Morse's Abraham Lincoln, 2 vols. (American Statesmen Series).

References for Reading. – Abbot's Battlefields of '61; Abbot's Blue Jackets of '61; Soley's Sailor Boys of '61; Brooks's True Story of Abraham Lincoln; Brooks's True Story of General Grant; Brooks's Story of the American Soldier; Coffin's Days and Nights on the Battlefield; Coffin's Drumbeat of the Nation; Coffin's Redeeming the Republic; Coffin's Marching to Victory; Coffin's Freedom Triumphant; Cooke's Stonewall Jackson; Cooke's Robert E. Lee.

Outside Readings. – Blaisdell's Stories of the Civil War; Goss's Jed, a Boy's Adventures in the Army; Goss's Tom Clifton; Keiffer's Recollections of a Drummer Boy; Barnes's Midshipman Farragut; Henty's With Lee in Virginia; Page's Two Little Confederates.

For Reading and Recitation. – Read's Sheridan's Ride; Whittier's Barbara Frietchie; Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic; Bryant's Our Country's Call; Bret Harte's John Burns at Gettysburg; Whitman's O Captain! My Captain! (Death of Lincoln); Finch's Blue and the Gray; Miss Preston's Gone Forward (Death of General Lee); Longfellow's Cumberland; Boker's Black Regiment; Byers's Sherman's March to the Sea; Bryant's The Battlefield; Wilson's The Old Sergeant; Bryant's Abraham Lincoln; Higginson's Decoration; Bryant's Our Country's Call; Stedman's Sumter; Bayard Taylor's To the American People, and Scott and the Veteran; Holmes's Voyage of the Good Ship Union; Stedman's Wanted – a Man; Whittier's Battle Autumn of 1862, and Laus Deo.

Chapter XXVI. Pages 406-423THE WAR WITH SPAIN IN 1898

The most useful book for schools is perhaps Henry Cabot Lodge's The War with Spain.

The following books are also useful: Brooks's Story of Our War with Spain; Abbot's Blue Jackets of 1898; Morris's The War with Spain; Davis's The War of 1898; and Spears's Our Navy in the Spanish War.