A Popular History of the United States of America, From the Aboriginal Times to the Present Day

Discover American history through these exciting short stories of key moments. The celebrated historian, John Clark Ridpath, chronicles everything that happened in the North American continent, from the Native American people and their eccentric habits, to the voyages of the Norsemen and their account of the strange country, and finally the coincidental, yet grand, landing of Christopher Columbus in America.  Ridpath details the periods of colonization, revolution, union, and civil war, the