Comic History of the United States

Comic History of the United States

Edgar Wilson Nye, distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist (1850-1896)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA

-04- OTHER DISCOVERIES, WET AND DRY

-05- THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL COLONIES

-06- THE PLYMOUTH COLONY

-07- DRAWBACKS OF BEING A COLONIST

-08- THE EPISODE OF THE CHARTER OAK

-09- THE DISCOVERY OF NEW YORK

-10- THE DUTCH AT NEW AMSTERDAM

-11- SETTLEMENT OF THE MIDDLE STATES

-12- THE EARLY ARISTOCRACY

-13- INTERCOLONIAL AND INDIAN WARS

-14- PERSONALITY OF WASHINGTON

-15- CONTRASTS WITH THE PRESENT DAY

-16- THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

-17- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, LL.D., PH.G., F.R.S., ETC

-18- THE CRITICAL PERIOD

-19- THE BEGINNING OF THE END

-20- THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION

-21- THE FIRST PRESIDENT

-22- THE WAR WITH CANADA

-23- THE ADVANCE OF THE REPUBLIC

-24- MORE DIFFICULTIES STRAIGHTENED OUT

-25- THE WEBSTERS

-26- BEFO' THE WAH, CAUSES WHICH LED TO IT

-27- BULL RUN AND OTHER BATTLES

-28- SOME MORE FRATRICIDAL STRIFE

-29- STILL MORE FRATERNAL BLOODSHED, ON PRINCIPLE

-30- LAST YEAR OF THE DISAGREEABLE WAR

-31- TOO MUCH LIBERTY IN PLACES AND NOT ENOUGH ELSEWHERE

-32- RECONSTRUCTION WITHOUT PAIN

-33- CLOSING CHRONICLES

-34- APPENDIX

-35- FOOTNOTES