This Country of Ours, Part 7

The This Country of Ours Series - Book 7

This Country of Ours, Part 7



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This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson World War I. Part 7 continues the series with the development of the United States under the presidents from Washington to Wilson. 

Stories include: 

  1. Washington: First in War, First in Peace 
  2. Adams: How He Kept Peace with France 
  3. Jefferson: How the Territory of the United States Was Doubled
  4. Jefferson: How the Door into the Far West Was Opened
  5. Jefferson: About an American Who Wanted to Be a King
  6. Madison: The Shooting Star and the Prophet
  7. Madison: War with Great Britain
  8. Monroe: The First Whispers of a Storm; Monroe’s Famous Doctrine 
  9. Adams: The Tariff of Abominations
  10. Jackson: “Liberty and Union, Now and Forever”; Van Buren; Hard Times
  11. Harrison: The Hero of Tippecanoe
  12. Tyler: Florida Becomes a State
  13. Polk: How Much Land was Added to the United States
  14. Polk : The Finding of Gold
  15. Taylor: Union or Disunion 
  16. Fillmore: The Underground Railroad
  17. Pierce: The Story of “Bleeding Kansas” 
  18. Buchanan: The Story of the Mormons 
  19. Buchanan: The First Shots 
  20. Lincoln: From Bull Run to Fort Donelson 
  21. Lincoln: The Story of the First Battle between Ironclads 
  22. Lincoln: The Battle of Shiloh and the Taking of New Orleans 
  23. Lincoln: The Slaves Are Made Free 
  24. Lincoln: Chancellorsville; the Death of Stonewall Jackson 
  25. Lincoln: The Battle of Gettysburg
  26. Lincoln: Grant’s Campaign; Sheridan’s Ride
  27. Lincoln: Sherman’s March to the Sea; Lincoln Reelected President
  28. Lincoln: The End of the War; The President’s Death
  29. Johnson: How the President Was Impeached
  30. Grant: A Peaceful Victory
  31. Hayes; Garfield; Arthur
  32. Cleveland; Harrison; Cleveland
  33. McKinley: War and Sudden Death
  34. Roosevelt; Taft
  35. Wilson: Troubles with Mexico
  36. Wilson: The Great War