Nye's History of the USA/Contents
The Discovery of America13
Other Discoveries—Wet and Dry23
The Thirteen Original Colonies36
The Plymouth Colony47
Drawbacks of being a Colonist55
The Episode of the Charter Oak62
The Discovery of New York72
The Dutch at New Amsterdam82
Settlement of the Middle States92
The Early Aristocracy102
Intercolonial and Indian Wars110
Personality of Washington124
Contrasts with the Present Day131
The Revolutionary War142
Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., PhG, F.R.S., etc.152
The Critical Period160
The Beginning of the End170
The Close of the Revolution181
The First President191
The War with Canada203
The Advance of the Republic212
More Difficulties Straightened Out222
The Websters233
Befo' the Wah—Causes which Led to it—Masterly Grasp of the Subject shown by the author243
Bull Run and Other Battles252
some More Fratricidal Strife263
Still More Fraternal Bloodshed, on Principle—Outing Features Disappear, and give place to Strained Relations between Combatants, who begin to Mix Things274
Last Year of the Disagreeable War284
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 sniveler who wants to do that all the time297
Reconstruction without Pain—Administrations of Johnson and Grant305
Closing Chronicles317
Appendix329