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Contents

• I INTRODUCTION: A Critical Survey of
  American History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
  In the Manner of William Lyon Phelps
• II CRISTOFER COLOMBO: A Comedy of
  Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
  In the Manner of James Branch Cabell
• III MAIN STREET: Plymouth, Mass. . . . . . . . . . 57
  In the Manner of Sinclair Lewis
• IV THE COURTSHIP OF, MILES STANDISH. . . . . . . . 87
  In the Manner of F. Scott Fitzgerald
• V THE SPIRIT OF '75: Letters of a Minute
  Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
  In the Manner of Ring Lardner
• VI THE WHISKY REBELLION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
  In the Bedtime Story Manner of Thornton W. Burgess
  
• VII HOW LOVE CAME TO GENERAL
  GRANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
  In the Manner of Harold Bell Wright

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  VIII CUSTER'S LAST STAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
  In the Manner of Edith Wharton
• IX FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD:
  A Drama of the Great War . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
  Act I—In the Manner of Mary Raymond
  Shipman Andrews
  Act 2—In the Manner of Eugene O'Neill

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Illustrations

• The Home Life of the Pilgrims. . . . . . . Frontispiece
• Colombo Does the Marvelous Egg Trick . . . . . . . . 35
• Colombo Teaches Geography to the Queen . . . . . . . 41
• The Voyage to the Land of Colombo's Imagining. . . . 45
• The Red-Haired Stranger Appears. . . . . . . . . . . 51
• Priscilla Kennicott's Foot Slips . . . . . . . . . . 59
• The Meeting of the Jolly Seventeen . . . . . . . . . 63
• The Smart Set Medicine Show. . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
• A Quiet Evening in Plymouth. . . . . . . . . . . . .101
• Ed and the Wife Give Boston the Double—O. . . . . .109
• The Boston Tea Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
• Ed Joins the Minute Men. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revear . . . . . . . . . .125
• Little Elmer's Father's D.T.'s Delight the Children.135
• Teaching the Young Idea How to Shoot . . . . . . . .141
• How the Dear Children Love Their Liquor! . . . . . .145
• Miss Ella Flowers Arrives at the Party . . . . . . .155
• Ella is Rescued by the General . . . . . . . . . . .167
• The General Refuses a Drink. . . . . . . . . . . . .171
• The World Will Never Forget. . . . . . . . . . . . .209
• For the Freedom of the World . . . . . . . . . . . .217