Includes index

The colonial period -- The discovery of America -- In the wake of Columbus -- The settlement of Virginia -- The Dutch at New Amsterdam -- The settlement of New England -- Religious persecutions in New England -- King Philip's war and the witchcraft delusion -- The struggle for the continent -- The revolution -- The coming of discontent -- The bursting of the storm -- The colonists take the offensive -- Independence -- The first campaign -- "The fate of Sir Jack Brag" -- The second stage -- The war on the water -- New York and the "neutral ground"-- The war in the south -- Peace -- The period of growth -- The new nation -- The second war with England -- The west -- -- Through five administrations -- The war with Mexico -- Fourteen years of peace -- The civil war -- The slavery question -- The gauntlet -- The north gets its lesson -- The grand army of the Potomac -- The war in the west -- The coast and the river -- Emancipation -- The "grand army's" second campaign -- With Grant on the Mississippi -- The final struggle -- Winslow and Farragut -- The martyr president -- Peace -- The period of expansion -- Reconstruction and after -- The year of a hundred years -- The conquest of the plains -- The seond assassination -- The war with Spain -- The new century -- The World War.