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THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.

OTHER DISCOVERIES—WET AND DRY.

THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL COLONIES.

THE PLYMOUTH COLONY.

DRAWBACKS OF BEING A COLONIST.

THE EPISODE OF THE CHARTER OAK.

THE DISCOVERY OF NEW YORK.

Beware of Paint.

THE DUTCH AT NEW AMSTERDAM.

SETTLEMENT OF THE MIDDLE STATES.

THE EARLY ARISTOCRACY.

INTERCOLONIAL AND INDIAN WARS.

PERSONALITY OF WASHINGTON.

CONTRASTS WITH THE PRESENT DAY.

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, LL.D., PH.G., F.R.S., ETC.

THE CRITICAL PERIOD.

THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION.

THE FIRST PRESIDENT.

THE WAR WITH CANADA.

THE ADVANCE OF THE REPUBLIC.

MORE DIFFICULTIES STRAIGHTENED OUT.

BEFO' THE WAH—CAUSES WHICH LED TO IT—MASTERLY GRASP OF THE SUBJECT SHOWN BY THE AUTHOR.

BULL RUN AND OTHER BATTLES.

SOME MORE FRATRICIDAL STRIFE.

STILL MORE FRATERNAL BLOODSHED, ON PRINCIPLE.—OUTING FEATURES DISAPPEAR, AND GIVE PLACE TO STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN COMBATANTS, WHO BEGIN TO MIX THINGS.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

LAST YEAR OF THE DISAGREEABLE WAR.

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?

RECONSTRUCTION WITHOUT PAIN—ADMINISTRATIONS OF JOHNSON AND GRANT.

CLOSING CHRONICLES.

APPENDIX.

Comic History of the United States

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