The Story of American History Part 36

This chapter is supplementary to Chapter IX on "Everyday Life in Colonial Times." The same works for collateral reading in connection with that chapter maybe equally serviceable for supplementary work for this chapter. Refer especially to the works of McMaster, Alice Morse Earle, Scudder, C. C. Coffin, Fisher, and Wharton.

CHAPTER XXI. PAGES 323-338.

OUR NAVY IN THE WAR OF 1812.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--From this time to the present day McMaster's _History of the People of the United States_ is a storehouse of important and interesting topics. See especially the chapter on "State of the People in 1812," Chapter III, p. 459, and various chapters in Vol. IV. Consult the detailed index to the several volumes for quick reference to the desired topics.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Abbot's _Blue Jackets of 1812_; Brooks's _Story of the American Sailor_; Johnson's _War of 1812_; Lossing's _History of the War of 1812_; Roosevelt's _Naval War of 1812_; Lossing's _Story of the United States Navy_ (for boys).

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 339-352.

THE 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 353-405.

THE 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 _c.u.mberland_; 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 406-423.

THE 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_.