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Our thanks are due to the following publishers and authors for their kindness in permitting the use of their copyrighted matter:

Walter H. Baker, for Geo. M. Baker's "Cruise of the Monitor;" Chautauquan Magazine Co., for Marie Sessions Cowell's "Mrs. Christopher Columbus;"

F. Marion Crawford, for " National Hymn;"

Chas. De Silver & Sons, for Epes Sargent's "Queen Isabella's Resolve" and "The Return of Columbus;

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Thomas Dunn English, for "The Battle of the Cowpens;" S. C. Griggs & Co., for Benj. F. Taylor's “A Battle Poem;" Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for Lucy Larcom's "The Nineteenth of April, 1861," Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Cassy" and "The Freeman's L'efence," and Edna Dean Proctor's "For Freedom and "The Lost War Sloop; "

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N. Y. Independent, for Sophie E. Eastman's "A Spool of Thread;"

E. L. Kellogg & Co., for Lizzie M. Hadley's "From the Old World to the New;

Mrs. Frank Leslie, for Joaquin Miller's "Columbus;

The J. B. Lippincott Co., for Geo. H. Boker's "Battle of Lookout Mountain" and "On Board the Cumberland," and Paul Hamilton Hayne's "Vicksburg;

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Edna Dean Proctor, for "Columbia's Emblem," "For Freedom" and "The Lost War Sloop;

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Albion W. Tourgée, for "A Change of Base" and "What Waked the World?"

Special thanks are due to Miss Lucy Larcom and Miss Edna Dean Proctor for the notes to their pieces written expressly for this work, and for the interest manifested in our undertaking.

Teachers will find this index helpful in teaching United States
history. The selections are arranged in periods and cover Ameri-
can history down to the Spanish-American war. Teachers may use
On Friday afternoons those selections suited to the history being
studied in the school. The teacher is recommended to review the
lessons of the week and introduce in the review the proper selec-
tion to be recited by a pupil.

PERIOD I-DISCOVERIES.-1492-1609....

Christopher C..

Columbus.-Thomas C. Adams.

Columbus.-Lydia H. Sigourney.

Columbus.-Joaquin Miller...

Columbus.-James Russell Lowell.

Columbus.-Aubrey De Vere ....

Columbus to Ferdinand.-Jonathan Mason.

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Discovery of America, The.-Washington Irving..
Discovery of the Hudson River, The.-Washington Irving.
Discovery of the Mississippi, The.-George Bancroft.....
From the Old World to the New.-Lizzie M. Hadley..
Mrs. Christopher Columbus.-Marie Sessions Cowell..
Queen Isabella's Resolve.—Epes Sargent

Return of Columbus, The.-Epes Sargent...
Return of Columbus, The.-William H. Prescott

PERIOD II.-SETTLEMENTS.-1609-1681......

Colonization of America, The-William H. Prescott..
Fathers of New England, The.-Charles Sprague.
In Memory of the Pilgrims.-Grenville Mellen...
Mayflower, The.-Erastus W. Ellsworth.
New England.-James Gates Percival..

Pilgrim Fathers, The.-Isaac McLellan, Jr...

Pilgrim's Vision, The.-Oliver Wendell Holmes.

PERIOD III.-FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS.-1690-1763......

Capture of Quebec, The. — William Warburton..

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Capture of Ticonderoga, The.-Ethan Allen....

Death of King Philip.-Washington Irving..
Indian Hunter, The.-Henry W. Longfellow.

Indian Names.-Lydia H, Sigourney...

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