Tag: chilren’s history book
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Great Stories for Little Americans: How Benjamin Franklin Found Out Things
Benjamin Franklin thought that ants know how to tell things to one another. He thought that they talk by some kind of signs. When an ant has found a dead fly too big for him to drag away, he will run off and get some other ant to help him. Franklin thought that ants have…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: Benjamin Franklin – His Own Teacher
Few people ever knew so many things as Benjamin Franklin. Men said, “How did he ever learn so many things?” For he had been a poor boy who had to work for a living. He could not go to school at all after he was ten years old. His father made soap and candles. Little…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: The Story of a Wise Woman
You have read how Thomas Smith first raised rice in Carolina. After his death, there lived in South Carolina a wise young woman. She showed the people how to raise another plant. Her name was Eliza Lucas. The father of Miss Lucas did not live in Carolina. He was governor of one of the islands…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: One Bag of Rice
The first European settlers that came to this country hardly knew how to get their living here. They did not know what would grow best in this country. Many of the settlers learned to hunt. All the land was covered with trees. In the woods were many animals whose flesh was good to eat. There…
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Chapter 4: William Penn and the Lenape Indians
The King of England gave all the land in Pennsylvania to William Penn. The King made Penn a kind of king over Pennsylvania. Penn could make the laws of this new country. But he let the people make their own laws. Penn wanted to be friendly with the Lenape (also called Delaware) Indians living in…
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Great Stories for Little Americans
“Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans” by Edward Eggleston introduces young readers to American history through engaging tales, fostering national pride and knowledge of heritage via accessible storytelling.
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The First Governor in Boston
Before the white people came, there were no houses in this country but the little huts of the In-di-ans. The In-di-an houses were made of bark, or mats, or skins, spread over poles. Some people came to one part of the country. Others started set-tle-ments in other places. When more people came, some of these…