This textbook aims to make the history of the country interesting to children, and, therefore, easily learned and long remembered. The chapters cover epochs and the lessons are topics or events within the epoch. Each lesson is a unit in itself and should be so considered in teaching the text. Topics included in this book cover the old world; discovering and exploring the new world; early colonies in the new world; later colonies in the new world; establishment of the English; life in the colonies; the Revolutionary War; establishing the nation; the progress of the nation; sectional interests and discords; the Civil War; reconstruction and expansion; enterprises, inventions and industries; and the Word War.