 Author Name: Tappan, Eva March.
Title: American Hero Stories.
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good in No DJ
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Co 1920
ISBN Number: B000NXG63O
Seller ID: 111123
Hardcover with no dust jacket. 1920. Blue boards with black lettering. Name and address on front end paper. Toned pages. 5.75" x 7.75". 279 pages. Revised Edition
From Preface: "If I were teaching the history of the United States to boys and girls of nine or ten, I would do it by having them read simple, picturesque stories of the men who have made our country what it is. Then I would let the children talk of what they had read and ask questions about it. Some of these questions I would answer; some I would ask them to try to answer for themselves. I would say nothing about exact dates, but I would make four or five general divisions of our history, such as discoveries and settlements, Colonial days and Indian wars, the Revolution, and so on. I would go through the stories rapidly in their chronological order, bringing out any information that the children might have gathered and occasionally adding a word to connect the stories or to make some point clear. What would this accomplish? At the end of the reading the children would he on good terms with twenty-five or more of the chief actors in the story of the United States: they would be well prepared for a "real history," and, best of all, they would look forward to it, not with dread, but with pleasant anticipation. This book is written from this viewpoint. It contains five accounts of voyages and explorers, ranging from Columbus to Lewis and Clark; stories of five colonies of marked dissimilarity - Virginia, Quebec, Plymouth, New York, and Philadelphia; brief lives of four pioneers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; fifteen short stories of war time; and a sketch of Roosevelt's career. In treating of our wars, it seemed wisest not to attempt any formal explanation of causes and results, but rather to picture a number of separate and interesting achievements, choosing as far as possible actions that have distinct heroes. The chapters are arranged in chronological order, with a thread of continuity running through them. The aim of the book is to introduce in informal and friendly fashion some of the makers of American history, and to provide a simple, broad foundation for future study of history and biography."
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