| PART I |
| THE COLONIAL PERIOD |
| America, Arthur Cleveland Coxe | 2 |
| CHAPTER I |
| The Discovery of America |
| The Story of Vinland, Sidney Lanier | 3 |
| The Norsemen, John Greenleaf Whittier | 4 |
| The Skeleton in Armor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 6 |
| Prophecy, Luigi Pulci | 7 |
| The Inspiration, James Montgomery | 8 |
| Columbus, Lydia Huntley Sigourney | 9 |
| Columbus to Ferdinand, Philip Freneau | 9 |
| Columbus at the Convent, John T. Trowbridge | 10 |
| The Final Struggle, Louis James Block | 11 |
| Steer, Bold Mariner, On, Friedrich von Schiller | 12 |
| The Triumph, Sidney Lanier | 12 |
| Columbus, Joaquin Miller | 14 |
| The Thanksgiving for America, Hezekiah Butterworth | 15 |
| Columbus in Chains, Philip Freneau | 17 |
| Columbus Dying, Edna Dean Proctor | 18 |
| Columbus, Edward Everett Hale | 18 |
| Columbus and the Mayflower, Lord Houghton | 18 |
| CHAPTER II |
| In the Wake of Columbus |
| The First Voyage of John Cabot, Unknown | 19 |
| The Legend of Waukulla, Hezekiah Butterworth | 19 |
| The Fountain of Youth, Hezekiah Butterworth | 21 |
| Ponce de Leon, Edith M. Thomas | 22 |
| Balboa, Nora Perry | 23 |
| With Cortez in Mexico, W. W. Campbell | 24 |
| The Lust of Gold, James Montgomery | 24 |
| Verazzano, Hezekiah Butterworth | 25 |
| Ortiz, Hezekiah Butterworth | 26 |
| The Fall of Maubila, Thomas Dunn English | 27 |
| Quivíra, Arthur Guiterman | 31 |
| Norembega, John Greenleaf Whittier | 32 |
| Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 34 |
| The First American Sailors, Wallace Rice | 34 |
| CHAPTER III |
| The Settlement of Virginia |
| The Mystery of Cro-a-tàn, Margaret Junkin Preston | 36 |
| John Smith's Approach to Jamestown, James Barron Hope | 38 |
| Pocahontas, William Makepeace Thackeray | 38 |
| Pocahontas, George Pope Morris | 39 |
| Bermudas, Andrew Marvell | 39 |
| Newes from Virginia, Richard Rich | 40 |
| To the Virginian Voyage, Michael Drayton | 42 |
| The Marriage of Pocahontas, Mrs. M. M. Webster | 43 |
| The Last Meeting of Pocahontas and the Great Captain, Margaret Junkin Preston | 43 |
| The Burning of Jamestown, Thomas Dunn English | 44 |
| Bacon's Epitaph, Unknown | 45 |
| Ode to Jamestown, James Kirke Paulding | 46 |
| The Downfall of Piracy, Benjamin Franklin | 48 |
| From Potomac to Merrimac, Edward Everett Hale | 49 |
| CHAPTER IV |
| The Dutch at New Amsterdam |
| Henry Hudson's Quest, Burton Egbert Stevenson | 50 |
| The Death of Colman, Thomas Frost | 50 |
| Adrian Block's Song, Edward Everett Hale | 51 |
| The Praise of New Netherland, Jacob Steendam | 52 |
| The Complaint of New Amsterdam, Jacob Steendam | 53 |
| Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 54 |
| CHAPTER V |
| The Settlement of New England |
| The Word of God to Leyden came, Jeremiah Eames Rankin | 56 |
| Song of the Pilgrims, Thomas Cogswell Upham | 57 |
| Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, Felicia Hemans | 57 |
| The First Proclamation of Miles Standish, Margaret Junkin Preston | 58 |
| The Mayflower, Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth | 59 |
| The Peace Message, Burton Egbert Stevenson | 60 |
| The First Thanksgiving Day, Margaret Junkin Preston | 60 |
| The War-Token, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 61 |
| Five Kernels of Corn, Hezekiah Butterworth | 62 |
| The Expedition to Wessagusset, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 63 |
| New England's Annoyances, Unknown | 65 |
| The Pilgrim Fathers, William Wordsworth | 66 |
| The Pilgrim Fathers, John Pierpont | 66 |
| The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor, Hezekiah Butterworth | 67 |
| The First Thanksgiving, Clinton Scollard | 68 |
| New England's Growth, William Bradford | 69 |
| The Assault on the Fortress, Timothy Dwight | 70 |
| Death Song, Alonzo Lewis | 70 |
| Our Country, Julia Ward Howe | 71 |
| CHAPTER VI |
| Religious Persecutions in New England |
| Prologue, from "John Endicott," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 71 |
| Roger Williams, Hezekiah Butterworth | 72 |
| God makes a Path, Roger Williams | 72 |
| Canonicus and Roger Williams, Unknown | 73 |
| Anne Hutchinson's Exile, Edward Everett Hale | 73 |
| John Underhill, John Greenleaf Whittier | 74 |
| The Proclamation, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 76 |
| Cassandra Southwick, John Greenleaf Whittier | 77 |
| The King's Missive, John Greenleaf Whittier | 80 |
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| CHAPTER VII |
| King Philip's War and the Witchcraft Delusion |
| The Lamentable Ballad of the Bloody Brook, Edward Everett Hale | 82 |
| The Great Swamp Fight, Caroline Hazard | 83 |
| On a Fortification at Boston begun by Women, Benjamin Tompson | 85 |
| The Sudbury Fight, Wallace Rice | 85 |
| King Philip's Last Stand, Clinton Scollard | 88 |
| Prologue, from "Giles Corey of the Salem Farms," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 88 |
| Salem, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 89 |
| The Death of Goody Nurse, Rose Terry Cooke | 90 |
| A Salem Witch, Ednah Proctor Clarke | 91 |
| The Trial, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 92 |
| Giles Corey, Unknown | 96 |
| Mistress Hale of Beverly, Lucy Larcom | 97 |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| The Struggle for the Continent |
| St. John, John Greenleaf Whittier | 99 |
| The Battle of La Prairie, William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall | 101 |
| The Sack of Deerfield, Thomas Dunn English | 102 |
| Pentucket, John Greenleaf Whittier | 105 |
| Lovewell's Fight, Unknown | 106 |
| Lovewell's Fight, Unknown | 108 |
| The Battle of Lovell's Pond, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 109 |
| Louisburg, Unknown | 110 |
| A Ballad of the French Fleet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 110 |
| The British Lyon roused, Stephen Tilden | 111 |
| The Song of Braddock's Men, Unknown | 112 |
| Braddock's Fate, Stephen Tilden | 112 |
| Ned Braddock, John Williamson Palmer | 114 |
| Ode to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, Unknown | 114 |
| The Embarkation, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 115 |
| On the Defeat at Ticonderoga or Carilong, Unknown | 117 |
| On the Late Successful Expedition against Louisbourg, Francis Hopkinson | 118 |
| Fort Duquesne, Florus B. Plimpton | 119 |
| Hot stuff, Edward Botwood | 121 |
| How Stands the Glass around, James Wolfe | 121 |
| Brave Wolfe, Unknown | 122 |
| The Death of Wolfe, Unknown | 123 |
| The Captive's Hymn, Edna Dean Proctor | 123 |
| A Prophecy, Arthur Lee | 125 |
| PART II |
| THE REVOLUTION |
| Flawless his Heart, James Russell Lowell | 128 |
| CHAPTER I |
| The Coming of Discontent |
| The Virginia Song, Unknown | 129 |
| The World turned Upside Down, Unknown | 130 |
| A Song, Unknown | 130 |
| The Liberty Pole, Unknown | 131 |
| The British Grenadier, Unknown | 132 |
| Crispus Attucks, John Boyle O'Reilly | 132 |
| Unhappy Boston, Paul Revere | 134 |
| Alamance, Seymour W. Whiting | 135 |
| A New Song called the Gaspee, Unknown | 135 |
| A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party, Oliver Wendell Holmes | 136 |
| A New Song, Unknown | 137 |
| How we became a Nation, Harriet Prescott Spofford | 138 |
| A Proclamation, Unknown | 138 |
| The Blasted Herb, Mesech Weare | 139 |
| Epigram, Unknown | 140 |
| The Daughter's Rebellion, Francis Hopkinson | 140 |
| On the Snake depicted at the Head of Some American Newspapers, Unknown | 140 |
| Free America, Joseph Warren | 140 |
| Liberty Tree, Thomas Paine | 141 |
| The Mother Country, Benjamin Franklin | 142 |
| Pennsylvania Song, Unknown | 142 |
| Maryland Resolves, Unknown | 142 |
| Massachusetts Song of Liberty, Mercy Warren | 143 |
| Epigram, Unknown | 144 |
| To the Boston Women, Unknown | 144 |
| Prophecy, Gulian Verplanck | 144 |
| CHAPTER II |
| The Bursting of the Storm |
| Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 144 |
| What's in a Name, Helen F. More | 146 |
| Lexington, Sidney Lanier | 146 |
| Lexington, Oliver Wendell Holmes | 147 |
| New England's Chevy Chase, Edward Everett Hale | 148 |
| The King's Own Regulars, Unknown | 150 |
| Morgan Stanwood, Hiram Rich | 151 |
| The Minute-Men of Northboro, Wallace Rice | 152 |
| Lexington, John Greenleaf Whittier | 153 |
| The Rising, Thomas Buchanan Read | 154 |
| The Prize of the Margaretta, Will Carleton | 155 |
| The Mecklenburg Declaration, William C. Elam | 156 |
| A Song, Unknown | 157 |
| CHAPTER III |
| The Colonists take the Offensive |
| The Green Mountain Boys, William Cullen Bryant | 157 |
| The Surprise at Ticonderoga, Mary A. P. Stansbury | 157 |
| The Yankee's Return from Camp, Edward Bangs | 159 |
| Tom Gage's Proclamation, Unknown | 160 |
| The Eve of Bunker Hill, Clinton Scollard | 161 |
| Warren's Address to the American Soldiers, John Pierpont | 161 |
| The Ballad of Bunker Hill, Edward Everett Hale | 162 |
| Bunker Hill, George H. Calvert | 162 |
| Grandmother's Story of Bunker-Hill Battle, Oliver Wendell Holmes | 163 |
| The Death of Warren, Epes Sargent | 166 |
| The Battle of Bunker Hill, Unknown | 167 |
| The New-Come Chief, James Russell Lowell | 168 |
| The Trip to Cambridge, Unknown | 169 |
| War and Washington, Jonathan Mitchell Sewall | 170 |
| The Bombardment of Bristol, Unknown | 171 |
| Montgomery at Quebec, Clinton Scollard | 171 |
| A Song, Unknown | 172 |
| A Poem containing Some Remarks on the Present War, Unknown | 173 |
| Mugford's Victory, John White Chadwick | 174 |
| Off from Boston, Unknown | 176 |
| CHAPTER IV |
| Independence |
| Emancipation from British Dependence, Philip Freneau | 176 |
| Rodney's Ride, Unknown | 177 |
| American Independence, Francis Hopkinson | 178 |
| The Fourth of July, John Pierpont | 179 |
| Independence Day, Royall Tyler | 179 |
| On Independence, Jonathan Mitchell Sewall | 179 |
| The American Patriot's Prayer, Unknown | 180 |
| Columbia, Timothy Dwight | 180 |
| CHAPTER V |
| The First Campaign |
| The Boasting of Sir Peter Parker, Clinton Scollard | 181 |
| A New War Song by Sir Peter Parker, Unknown | 182 |
| The Maryland Battalion, John Williamson Palmer | 183 |
| Haarlem Heights, Arthur Guiterman | 183 |
| Nathan Hale, Unknown | 185 |
| Nathan Hale, Francis Miles Finch | 186 |
| The Ballad of Sweet P, Virginia Woodward Cloud | 186 |
| Across the Delaware, Will Carleton | 188 |
| The Battle of Trenton, Unknown | 188 |
| Trenton and Princeton, Unknown | 188 |
| Assunpink and Princeton, Thomas Dunn English | 189 |
| Seventy-Six, William Cullen Bryant | 191 |
| Betsy's Battle Flag, Minna Irving | 191 |
| The American Flag, Joseph Rodman Drake | 192 |
| CHAPTER VI |
| "The Fate of Sir Jack Brag" |
| The Rifleman's Song at Bennington, Unknown | 193 |
| The Marching Song of Stark's Men, Edward Everett Hale | 193 |
| Parson Allen's Ride, Wallace Bruce | 194 |
| The Battle of Bennington, Thomas P. Rodman | 195 |
| Bennington, W. H. Babcock | 196 |
| The Battle of Oriskany, Charles D. Helmer | 198 |
| Saint Leger, Clinton Scollard | 199 |
| The Progress of Sir Jack Brag, Unknown | 200 |
| Arnold at Stillwater, Thomas Dunn English | 200 |
| The Fate of John Burgoyne, Unknown | 202 |
| Saratoga's Song, Unknown | 202 |
| CHAPTER VII |
| The Second Stage |
| Lord North's Recantation, Unknown | 204 |
| A New Ballad, Unknown | 205 |
| General Howe's Letter, Unknown | 205 |
| Carmen Bellicosum, Guy Humphreys McMaster | 206 |
| Valley Forge, Thomas Buchanan Read | 207 |
| British Valor displayed; or, The Battle of the Kegs, Francis Hopkinson | 208 |
| The Little Black-Eyed Rebel, Will Carleton | 209 |
| The Battle of Monmouth, Unknown | 210 |
| The Battle of Monmouth, Thomas Dunn English | 211 |
| Molly Pitcher, Kate Brownlee Sherwood | 213 |
| Molly Pitcher, Laura E. Richards | 213 |
| Yankee Doodle's Expedition to Rhode Island, Unknown | 214 |
| Running the Blockade, Nora Perry | 215 |
| Betty Zane, Thomas Dunn English | 216 |
| The Wyoming Massacre, Uriah Terry | 217 |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| The War on the Water |
| The Cruise of the Fair American, Unknown | 219 |
| On the Death of Captain Nicholas Biddle, Philip Freneau | 220 |
| The Yankee Privateer, Arthur Hale | 221 |
| Paul Jones, Unknown | 222 |
| The Yankee Man-of-War, Unknown | 223 |
| Paul Jones—A New Song, Unknown | 224 |
| Paul Jones, Unknown | 224 |
| The Bonhomme Richard and Serapis, Philip Freneau | 225 |
| Barney's Invitation, Philip Freneau | 226 |
| Song on Captain Barney's Victory, Philip Freneau | 227 |
| The South Carolina, Unknown | 228 |
| CHAPTER IX |
| New York and the "Neutral Ground" |
| Sir Henry Clinton's Invitation to the Refugees, Philip Freneau | 229 |
| The Storm of Stony Point, Arthur Guiterman | 230 |
| Wayne at Stony Point, Clinton Scollard | 230 |
| Aaron Burr's Wooing, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 231 |
| The Modern Jonas, Unknown | 232 |
| Caldwell of Springfield, Bret Harte | 232 |
| The Cow-Chace, John André | 233 |
| Brave Paulding and the Spy, Unknown | 237 |
| Arnold the Vile Traitor, Unknown | 238 |
| Epigram, Unknown | 238 |
| André's Request to Washington, Nathaniel Parker Willis | 238 |
| André, Charlotte Fiske Bates | 239 |
| Sergeant Champe, Unknown | 239 |
| A New Song, Joseph Stansbury | 240 |
| The Lords of the Main, Joseph Stansbury | 241 |
| The Royal Adventurer, Philip Freneau | 241 |
| The Descent on Middlesex, Peter St. John | 242 |
| CHAPTER X |
| The War in the South |
| Hymns of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 245 |
| About Savannah, Unknown | 245 |
| A Song about Charleston, Unknown | 246 |
| The Swamp Fox, William Gilmore Simms | 247 |
| Song of Marion's Men, William Cullen Bryant | 248 |
| Macdonald's Raid, Paul Hamilton Hayne | 248 |
| Sumter's Band, J. W. Simmons | 250 |
| The Battle of King's Mountain, Unknown | 251 |
| The Battle of the Cowpens, Thomas Dunn English | 252 |
| The Battle of Eutaw, William Gilmore Simms | 254 |
| Eutaw Springs, Philip Freneau | 255 |
| The Dance, Unknown | 256 |
| Cornwallis's Surrender, Unknown | 256 |
| The Surrender of Cornwallis, Unknown | 257 |
| News From Yorktown, Lewis Worthington Smith | 257 |
| An Ancient Prophecy, Philip Freneau | 258 |
| CHAPTER XI |
| Peace |
| On Sir Henry Clinton's Recall, Unknown | 259 |
| On the Departure of the British from Charleston, Philip Freneau | 260 |
| On the British King's Speech, Philip Freneau | 261 |
| England and America in 1782, Alfred Tennyson | 262 |
| On Disbanding the Army, David Humphreys | 262 |
| Evacuation of New York by the British, Unknown | 262 |
| Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, on his Way to his Residence in Virginia, Philip Freneau | 263 |
| The American Soldier's Hymn, Unknown | 264 |
| Thanksgiving Hymn, Unknown | 264 |
| Land of the Wilful Gospel, Sidney Lanier | 265 |
| PART III |
| THE PERIOD OF GROWTH |
| "Oh Mother of a Mighty Race," William Cullen Bryant | 268 |
| CHAPTER I |
| The New Nation |
| A Radical Song of 1786, St. John Honeywood | 269 |
| The Federal Convention, Unknown | 269 |
| To the Federal Convention, Timothy Dwight | 270 |
| The New Roof, Francis Hopkinson | 270 |
| Convention Song, Unknown | 271 |
| The Federal Constitution, William Milns | 272 |
| The First American Congress, Joel Barlow | 273 |
| Washington, James Jeffrey Roche | 274 |
| The Vow of Washington, John Greenleaf Whittier | 274 |
| On the Death of Benjamin Franklin, Philip Freneau | 275 |
| George Washington, John Hall Ingham | 275 |
| Washington, Lord Byron | 276 |
| Adams and Liberty, Robert Treat Paine | 276 |
| Hail Columbia, Joseph Hopkinson | 277 |
| Ye Sons of Columbia, Thomas Green Fessenden | 278 |
| Truxton's Victory, Unknown | 279 |
| The Constellation and the Insurgente, Unknown | 280 |
| Washington's Monument, Unknown | 280 |
| How we burned the Philadelphia, Barrett Eastman | 281 |
| Reuben James, James Jeffrey Roche | 282 |
| Skipper Ireson's Ride, John Greenleaf Whittier | 283 |
| A Plea for Flood Ireson, Charles Timothy Brooks | 284 |
| CHAPTER II |
| The Second War with England |
| The Times, Unknown | 285 |
| Reparation or War, Unknown | 286 |
| Terrapin War, Unknown | 286 |
| Farewell, Peace, Unknown | 287 |
| Come, ye Lads, who wish to shine, Unknown | 287 |
| Hull's Surrender, Unknown | 287 |
| The Constitution and the Guerrière, Unknown | 288 |