Tag: american-history
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Presidents’ Day Explained: History and Observance
Washington’s Birthday or Presidents’ Day? It all began with Washington’s Birthday. In 1885, the U.S. government chose to honor the first president, George Washington, by creating a federal holiday in his name. The celebration took place on his actual birthday, February 22, which in 1885 happened to fall on a Sunday. Nearly a century later,…
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CHAPTER XIV. HOW THE STORY TURNS OUT
CHAPTER XIV. HOW THE STORY TURNS OUT Whenever you start to read a story that you hope will be interesting, you always wonder, do you not, how it is going to turn out? Your favorite fairy tale or wonder story that began with “once upon a time,” ends, does it not, “so the prince married…
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CHAPTER XIII. THE END OF THE STORY
CHAPTER XIII. THE END OF THE STORY Any one who is sick, as some of you may know, is apt to be anxious and fretful and full of fears as to how he is going to get along, or who will look out for his family. Very often there is no need for this feeling;…
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CHAPTER XII. HOW THE ADMIRAL PLAYED ROBINSON CRUSOE
CHAPTER XII. HOW THE ADMIRAL PLAYED ROBINSON CRUSOE While the terrible storm that wrecked the great gold fleet of the governor was raging so furiously, Columbus with his four ships was lying as near shore as he dared in a little bay farther down the coast of Hayti. Here he escaped the full fury of…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: The Author of ‘Little Women’
Louisa Alcott was a wild little girl. When she was very little, she would run away from home. She liked to play with beggar children. One day she wandered so far away from her home, she could not find the way back again. It was growing dark. The little girl’s feet were tired. She sat…
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CHAPTER XI. HOW THE ADMIRAL CAME AND WENT AGAIN
CHAPTER XI. HOW THE ADMIRAL CAME AND WENT AGAIN I suppose you think Bobadilla was a very cruel man. He was. But in his time people were apt to be cruel to one another whenever they had the power in their own hands. The days in which Columbus lived were not like these in which…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: A Wonderful Woman
Little Dorothy Dix was poor. Her father did not know how to make a living. Her mother did not know how to bring up her children. The father moved from place to place. Sometimes he printed little tracts to do good. But he let his own children grow up poor and wretched. Dorothy wanted to…
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CHAPTER X. FROM PARADISE TO PRISON
CHAPTER X. FROM PARADISE TO PRISON If you know a boy or a girl whose mind is set on any one thing, you will find that they are always talking about that thing. Is not this so? They have what people call a “hobby” (which is a kind of a horse, you know), and they…
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Great Stories for Little Americans Horace Greeley Learning to Print
Horace Greeley had always wanted to be a printer. He liked books and papers. He thought it would be a fine thing to learn to make them. One day he heard that the newspaper at East Poultney wanted a boy to learn the printer’s trade. He walked many long miles to see about it. He…
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CHAPTER IX. HOW THE TROUBLES OF THE ADMIRAL BEGAN
CHAPTER IX. HOW THE TROUBLES OF THE ADMIRAL BEGAN Both the farmers and the gold hunters had a hard time of it in the land they had come to so hopefully. The farmers did not like to farm when they thought they could do so much better at gold hunting; the gold hunters found that…