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Bill Nye's History of the United States

Bill Nye's History of the United States

by Bill Nye

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Author
Nye, Bill, 1850-1896
Title
Comic History of the United States
Credits
Produced by Joseph R. Hauser, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
E151: History: America: United States
Subject
Caricatures and cartoons -- United States
Category
Text
eBook-No.
21427
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21427
Release Date
May 13, 2007
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Bill Nye's
  2. 2.F. Opper
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.CHAPTER I. — THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. — ISABELLA AT CONFESSIONAL. — COLUMBUS AT COURT.
  5. 5.CHAPTER II. — OTHER DISCOVERIES—WET AND DRY.
  6. 6.CHAPTER III. — THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL COLONIES.
  7. 7.CHAPTER IV. — THE PLYMOUTH COLONY.
  8. 8.CHAPTER V. — DRAWBACKS OF BEING A COLONIST.
  9. 9.CHAPTER VI. — THE EPISODE OF THE CHARTER OAK.
  10. 10.CHAPTER VII. — THE DISCOVERY OF NEW YORK. — Beware of Paint.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. — THE DUTCH AT NEW AMSTERDAM.
  12. 12.CHAPTER IX. — SETTLEMENT OF THE MIDDLE STATES. — QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION.
  13. 13.CHAPTER X. — THE EARLY ARISTOCRACY.
  14. 14.CHAPTER XI. — INTERCOLONIAL AND INDIAN WARS.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XII. — PERSONALITY OF WASHINGTON.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. — CONTRASTS WITH THE PRESENT DAY.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. — THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XV. — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, LL.D., PH.G., F.R.S., ETC.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVI. — THE CRITICAL PERIOD.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVII. — THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII. — THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XIX. — THE FIRST PRESIDENT.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XX. — THE WAR WITH CANADA.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XXI. — THE ADVANCE OF THE REPUBLIC.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXII. — MORE DIFFICULTIES STRAIGHTENED OUT.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII. — THE WEBSTERS.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV. — BEFO' THE WAH—CAUSES WHICH LED TO IT—MASTERLY GRASP OF THE SUBJECT SHOWN BY THE AUTHOR.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXV. — BULL RUN AND OTHER BATTLES.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI. — SOME MORE FRATRICIDAL STRIFE.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXVII. — STILL MORE FRATERNAL BLOODSHED, ON PRINCIPLE.—OUTING FEATURES DISAPPEAR, AND GIVE PLACE TO STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN COMBATANTS, WHO BEGIN TO MIX THINGS.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVIII. — LAST YEAR OF THE DISAGREEABLE WAR.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXIX. — TOO MUCH LIBERTY IN PLACES AND NOT ENOUGH ELSEWHERE.—THOUGHTS ON THE LATE WAR—WHO IS THE BIGGER ASS, THE MAN WHO WILL NOT FORGIVE AND FORGET, OR THE MAWKISH AND MOIST-EYED SNIVELLER WHO WANTS TO DO THAT ALL THE TIME?
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXX. — RECONSTRUCTION WITHOUT PAIN—ADMINISTRATIONS OF JOHNSON AND GRANT.
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXXI. — CLOSING CHRONICLES. — THE END.
  35. 35.APPENDIX. — FOOTNOTES

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