The World’s Story Volume XIII: The United States

002 - The United States, Volume II: Part I: The colonies win their freedom: Historical note

003 - Congress and Valley Forge (1777-1778), by John Fiske

004 - Baron Steuben drilling the colonial troops at Valley Forge, by Edwin A. Abbey, American artist, 1852, painting p. 4

005 - The message of Lydia Darrah (1777), by Elizabeth F. Ellet

006 - Mollie Pitcher (1787), by Kate Brownlee Sherwood

007 - The capture of Major André (1780), by Jared Sparks

008 - A visit to General Marion (1781), by Charles Carleton Coffin

009 - When Cornwallis surrendered (1781), By Burton Egbert Stevenson

010 - George III acknowledges the independence of the colonies (1782), by Elkanah Watson

011 - When Washington resigned his commission (1783), by R. M. Devens

012 - The United States, Volume II: Part II: Life in revolutionary days: Historical note

013 - The Meschianza at Philadelphia (1778), by John F. Watson

014 - A New England Thanksgiving dinner in 1779, by Juliana Smith

015 - A call on Lady Washington in 1780, by Charles D. Platt

016 - How people traveled in revolutionary times (1775-1781), by John Bach McMaster

017 - Abraham Davenport (1780), by John G. Whittier

018 - The United States, Volume II: Part III: The first years of the nation: Historical note

019 - America, by Samuel Francis Smith

020 - How Philadelphia celebrated the ratification of the Constitution (1788), by John Bach McMaster

021 - The first Inauguration Day (1789), by John Bach McMaster

022 - The death of Washington (1799)

023 - Red Jacket and the missionary (end of the eighteenth century), by Charles H. L. Johnston

024 - The burning of the Philadelphia (1804), by Cyrus Townssend Brady

025 - The trials of the British Minister in Jefferson's administration (1803-1809), by James Parton

026 - The Clermont's first advertisement

027 - The United States, Volume II: Part IV: The Louisiana Territory: Historical note

028 - Napoleon plans to sell Louisiana (1803), by A. E. Winship and Robert W. Wallace

029 - The ''bargain'' purchase of the Louisiana Territory (1803), by James Parton

030 - Taking possession of Louisiana Territory, by Thure de Thulstrupp, painting p. 114

031 - Exploring the Louisiana Territory, by James Parton

032 - Lewis and Clarke at the source of the Missouri, from their journal

033 - Sa-Cá-Ga-We-A (1804), by Edna Dean Proctor

034 - The United States, Volume II: Part V: The war of 1812: Historical note

035 - What caused the second war with England (1812), by Agnes C. Laut

036 - How Winfield Scott rescued the Irishmen, by James Barnes

037 - On the capture of the Guerrière, by Philip Freneau

038 - The Shannon and the Chesapeake (1813), by Thomas Tracy Bouvé

039 - How Perry saved the Northwest (1813), by Charles Morris

040 - The battle of Lake Erie, from an engraving, painting p. 148

041 - The Star-Spangled Banner (1814), by Francis Scott Key

042 - Tecumseh, the Indian Brigadier-General (1813), by Charles H. L. Johnston

043 - The Privateers of 1812, by Willis J. Abbot

044 - The ''Horse-Marines'' of 1814, by John Bach McMaster

045 - The United States, Volume II: Part VI: A period of growth and expansion: Historical note

046 - The opening of the Erie Canal, by John Bach McMaster

047 - The guest of the Nation, by Daniel Webster

048 - The highest peak of the Rocky Mountains, by John Charles Frémont

049 - The first telegram, by R. M. Devens

050 - A little Scotch pioneer in Wisconsin (the first half of the nineteenth century), by John Muir

051 - The United States, Volume II: Part VII: The Mexican War: Historical note

052 - ''Remember the Alamo !'', by Cyrus Townsend Brady

053 - The importance of one vote, by W. H. Vail

054 - The storming of Chapultepec (1847), by James Barnes

055 - The United States, Volume II: Part VIII: California: Historical note

056 - When the English discovered California (1577-1579), by Edward Everett Hale

057 - On the California Coast in the Thirties, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

058 - How the ''Forty-Niners'' reached California, by Henry Childs Merwin

059 - Early business days in San Francisco (1849-1853), by Henry Childs Merwin

060 - The United States, Volume II: Part IX: The shadow of Civil War: Historical note

061 - The ''Broadcloth Mob'' of Boston (1835), by Harriet Martineau

062 - On the underground railway (about 1858), by Francis Grierson

063 - The great Lincoln-Douglas debate (1858), by Francis Grierson

064 - Just before the war (1858), by Morris Schaff

065 - The last moment of John Brown, by Thomas Hovenden, born in Ireland, 1810, died in America in 1895, painting p. 290

066 - The United States, Volume II: Part X: From Fort Sumter to Chancellorsville: Historical note

067 - The bombardment of Fort Sumter (1861), by Orville J. Victor

068 - Battle-Hymn of the Republic (1861), by Julia Ward Howe

069 - The gathering of the Great Army (1861), by Charles Carleton Coffin

070 - Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell

071 - The Merrimac and the monitor (1862), by John S. Wise

072 - Taken prisoner at Shiloh (1862), by Henry M. Stanley

073 - The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (United States, 1830-1900), painting p. 346

074 - Boston Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

075 - The United States, Volume II: Part XI: The turning-point: Historical note

076 - ''Stonewall'' Jackson by the river (1863), by Mary Johnston

077 - A three-hour truce at Vicksburg (1863), by W. H. Tunnard, of the Confederate Army

078 - Union gunboats on the Mississippi, from an engraving, painting p. 366

079 - A drummer-boy at Gettysburg (1863), by Harry M. Kieffer

080 - John Burns of Gettysburg (1863), by Bret Harte

081 - The Gettysburg Address, by Abraham Lincoln

082 - Alabama dressmaking in the days of the Blockade (1861-1865), by Parthenia Antoinette Hague

083 - General order number 11, by G. C. Brigham, painting p. 390

084 - The United States, Volume II: Part XII: The end of the struggle: Historical note

085 - The Battle of the Crater, Petersburg, by J. D. Woodward, painting p. 406

086 - The day of the evacuation of Richmond (1865), by Morris Schaff

087 - Carrying a message to General Lee, by John S. Wise

088 - Lee's surrender (1865), by Morris Schaff

089 - America after the Civil War, by William Ewart Gladstone

090 - The United States, Volume II: Part XIII: Stories of the Western Indians: Historical note

091 - A Choctaw holiday (about 1850), by George Catlin

092 - What the Indians thought of the White Men, by George Bird Grinnell

093 - The Indian story of the Custer tragedy (1877), by James McLaughlin

094 - The Temecula Valley, and American Grand Pré (1869), by Helen Hunt Jackson

095 - The United States, Volume II: Part XIV: The Spanish War: Historical note

096 - Cuba to Columbia, by Will Carleton (April, 1896)

097 - The sinking of the Maine (1898), by Willis J. Abbot

098 - The battle of Santiago (1898), from the account of a newspaper correspondent

099 - The charge at El Caney, by Frank T. Merrill, painting p. 488

100 - The flag goes by, by Henry Holcomb Bennett

101 - The United States, Volume II: Part XV: The twentieth century: Historical note

102 - The romance of the reindeer (1905), by Mary Gay Humphreys

103 - Totem poles, Alaska, photograph p. 504

104 - Learning coal-mining, by Joseph Husband

105 - The social value of the telephone in the United States, by Herbert N. Casson

106 - How the Panama railroad was built (1849-1855), by Hugh C. Weir

107 - The steam shovel at Panama, by Hugh C. Weir

108 - The triumph of the wireless (1909), by Captain J. B. Ranson, R.N.R.

109 - The National Red Cross at work, by Constance D. Leupp

110 - Gettysburg fifty years after, photograph p. 558

111 - ''America for me'', by Henry van Dyke