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1/1/2024

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Program 1: Christian Study's day-by-day lesson plans includes Bible, History, Geography, plus American History. You can find more American History free living books here based on Miss Maggie's original Old Fashioned Education booklist.

American History

​American Journeys
big, free website
Lesson Plans from American Journeys

The Land We Live In, The Story of our Country
by Henry Mann

Stories of Later American History
by Wilbur F. Gordy
Designed for 5th Grade, but appropriate for 4th through 6th — MM

The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
by Various

A True Relation
by Captain John Smith
American Journeys

Famous Indian Chiefs I have Known
by Oliver Otis Howard

Stories of the Pilgrims
by Margaret B. Pumphrey

The Nation in a Nutshell
by George Makepeace Towle

The Women Who Came in the Mayflower
by Annie Russell Marble

The Mayflower and Her Log;
July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
by Azel Ames

True Stories of History and Biography
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
by Katherine Chandler
For young readers, K to 2nd grade

Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans
by Edward Eggleston
2nd to 4th grade reading level

Stories of American Life and Adventure
by Edward Eggleston
2nd to 4th grade reading level

A First Book in American History
by Edward Eggleston

The Beginner’s American History
by D. H. Montgomery

American Men of Action
by Burton E. Stevenson

Young Peoples’ History of the War with Spain
by Prescott Holmes

The Men Who Found America
by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson
4th to 5th grade reading level but appropriate to be read to younger students

This Country of Ours
by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
4th to 6th grade reading level, but appropriate to be read to younger students

Woman on the American Frontier
by William Worthington Fowler
5th to 6th grade reading level — good to read with the “Little House” books. Some of the stories are a bit frightening, use with adult discretion especially with a sensitive child. Highly Recommended!

Hero Tales from American History
by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt

The Pilgrims of New England
by Mrs. J. B. Webb

Woman’s Life in Colonial Days
by Carl Holliday

American History Stories
Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4
by Mara L. Pratt
5th to 7th grade reading level

The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776
The Yankee Tea-party; Or, Boston in 1773
by Henry C. Watson
5th to 7th grade reading level

Introductory American History
by Elbert Jay Benton and Henry Eldridge Bourne
6th to 8th grade reading level

History of the United States
by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard
9th to 11th grade reading level

A Short History of the United States
by Edward Channing

The Underground Railroad
by William Still

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete
by U. S. Grant
6th to 8th grade reading level but more interesting to older grades

The Story of the Pony Express
by Glenn D. Bradley
6th to 9th grade reading level

The Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman
7th grade reading level

A School History of the United States
by John Bach McMaster
7th to 10th grade reading level

Pathfinders of the West
Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark
by Agnes C. Laut

First Across the Continent: The Story of Lewis & Clark
by Noah Brooks
9th grade reading level

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis

My Native Land
by James Cox

Great Britain and the American Civil War
by Ephraim Douglass Adams

Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
by Logan Marshall

The Loss of the S. S. Titanic
by Lawrence Beesley

A Brief History of the United States
by John Bach McMaster

Great Epochs in American History
Volume 1 | Volume 2
edited by Francis W. Hasley

The Anti-Slavery Alphabet
by Anonymous
interesting extra for the study of abolitionists

Sabbath in Puritan New England
by Alice Morse Earle

England in America, 1580-1652
by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

Letters of a Woman Homesteader
by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Charming, amusing, easy to read and interesting
5th or 6th grade and up

What Prohibition Has Done to America
by Fabian Franklin

A School History of the Great War
by Coulomb and Gerson and McKinley

The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire
by Charles Morris
Complete Chronicles of America Series: 9th to 12th grade reading level

The Red Man’s Continent
Ellsworth Huntington
Volume 1
Gutenberg Text

The Spanish Conquerors
by Richman
Volume 2
Google Books

Elizabethan Sea-Dogs
by William Charles Henry Wood
Volume 3

Crusaders of New France
by William Bennett Munro
Volume 4
Gutenberg Text

Pioneers of the Old South
by Mary Johnston
Volume 5
Gutenberg Text

The Fathers of New England
by Andrews
Volume 6
Google Books

Dutch and English on the Hudson
by Maud Wilder Goodwin
Volume 7
Kellscraft

The Quaker Colonies
by Sydney George Fisher
Volume 8
Gutenberg Text

Colonial Folkways
by Charles M. Andrews
Volume 9
Internet Archive

The Conquest of New France
by George McKinnen Wrong
Volume 10
Gutenberg Text

The Eve of the Revolution
by Becker
Volume 11
Gutenberg Text

Washington and His Comrades in Arms
by George McKinnen Wrong
Volume 12
Gutenberg Text

The Fathers of the Constitution
by Max Farrand
Volume 13
Gutenberg Text

Washington and His Colleagues
by Henry Jones Ford
Volume 14
Gutenberg Text

Jefferson and His Colleagues
by Allen Johnson
Volume 15
Gutenberg Text

John Marshall And The Supreme Court
by Edward S. Corwin
Volume 16
Gutenberg Text

The Fight for a Free Sea
by Ralph D. Paine
Volume 17

Pioneers of the Old Southwest
by Lindsay Constance Skinner
Volume 18
Gutenberg Text

The Old Northwest
by Frederic Austin Ogg
Volume 19
Gutenberg Text

The Reign of Andrew Jackson
by Frederic Austin Ogg
Volume 20

The Paths of Inland Commerce
by Archer Butler Hulbert
Volume 21
Gutenberg Text

Adventurers of Oregon
by Constance L. Skinner
Volume 22
Internet Archive

The Spanish Borderlands
by Herbert E. Bolton
Volume 23
Google Books

Texas & the Mexican War
by Nathaniel W. Stephenson
Volume 24

The Forty-Niners
by Stewart Edward White
Volume 25
Gutenberg Text

The Passing of the Frontier
by Emerson Hough
Volume 26
Gutenberg Text

The Cotton Kingdom
by William E. Dodd
Volume 27
Internet Archive

An Anti-Slavery Crusade
by Jesse Macy
Volume 28
Gutenberg Text

Abraham Lincoln and the Union
by Nathaniel W. Stephenson
Volume 29
Gutenberg Text

The Day of the Confederacy
by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
Volume 30
Gutenberg Text

Captains of the Civil War
by William Charles Henry Wood
Volume 31
Gutenberg Text

The Sequel of Appomattox
by Walter Lynwood Fleming
Volume 32
Gutenberg Text

The American Spirit in Education
by Edwin E. Slosson
Volume 33

The American Spirit in Literature
by Bliss Perry
Volume 34
Gutenberg Text

Our Foreigners
by Samuel P. Orth
Volume 35
Gutenberg Text

The Old Merchant Marine
Paine, Ralph Delahaye
Volume 36
Gutenberg Text

The Age of Invention
by Holland Thompson
Volume 37
Gutenberg Text

The Railroad Builders
by John Moody
Volume 38
Gutenberg Text

The Age of Big Business
by Jesse Burton Hendrick
Volume 39
Gutenberg Text

The Armies of Labor
by Samuel Peter Orth
Volume 40
Gutenberg Text

Captains of the Civil War
by William Wood
Volume 41
Gutenberg Text

The New South
by Holland Thompson
Volume 42
Gutenberg Text

The Boss and the Machine
Samuel Peter Orth
Volume 43
Gutenberg Text

The Cleveland Era
by Henry Jones Ford
Voume 44
Gutenberg Text

The Agrarian Crusade
by Solon J. Buck
Volume 45
Gutenberg Text

The Path of Empire
by Carl Russel Fish
Volume 46
Gutenberg Text

Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
by Harold Howland
Volume 47
Gutenberg Text

Woodrow Wilson And The World War
Charles Seymour
Volume 48
Google Book

The Canadian Dominion
by Oscar D. Skelton
Volume 49
Gutenberg Text
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The Hispanic Nations of the New World
by William R. Shepherd
Volume 50
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