Great Epochs in American History Volume I - Francis Whiting Halsey
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What does the preface say about the purpose of this volume?
Preface of Great Epics in American History, Volume 1. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Betty B. Great Epics in American History, Volume 1. Voyages of Discovery and Early Explorations, 1000 A.D. to 1682. by Francis Whiting Halsey. Preface.
How does the author introduce the scope of the ten great epics?
In these 10 volumes, the aim has been to present striking accounts of 10 great epics in the history of the United States, from the landing of Columbus to the building of the Panama Canal. In large part, events composing each epic are described by men who participated in them or were personal eyewitnesses of them. Columbus, for example, described his own first voyage. Washington, the defeat of Braddock. General Sam Houston, the Battle of San Jacinto. General Robert E. Lee, the capture of John Brown at Harper's Ferry. Murat Halstead, the nomination of Lincoln. Jefferson Davis, the evacuation of Richmond and his own arrest in Georgia by federal troops. Mrs. James Chestnut, wife of the Confederate general.
The firing on Fort Sumter. Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Retreat from Bull Run, General James Longstreet, Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, General Sheridan, Sheridan's Ride to Winchester, James G. Blaine, The Funeral of Lincoln, Cyrus W. Field, The Laying of the Atlantic Cable, Horace White, The Great Chicago Fire, William Jennings Bryan, The First Bryan Campaign, Admiral Dewey, The Battle of Manila Bay, and Admiral Peary, The Finding of the North Pole. These accounts are often supplemented by passages from the writings of historians and biographers, including George Bancroft, Washington Irving, Francis Parkman, Richard Hildreth, William E. H. Leckie, James Shuler, and John Fiske, or from those of statesmen, journalists, and publicists, among them Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Thomas H. Benton, Robert Toombs, Horace Greeley, Bull Run Russell,
Carl Schurz, and Theodore Roosevelt. The tables of contents prefixed to the several volumes or the index appended to the last will show how wide is the range of topics. The events described have been of vital and often of transcendent importance to this country and Europe. The writers will be found interesting as authorities and are often supremely competent, alike as authorities and writers. The work is believed to present American history in a form that will appeal to readers for its authenticity and its novelty. Francis W. Halsey. End of preface.
Section 1 of Great Epics in American History, Volume 1. This is a LibriVox recording.
What early voyages to America are described before Columbus?
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Betty B. Great Epics in American History, Volume 1, Voyages of Discovery and Early Explorations, 1000 A.D. to 1682, by Frances Whiting Halsey. Section 1, Introduction. Voyages of Discovery and Early Explorations. Schoolboys have been taught from their earliest years that Columbus discovered America. Few events in prehistoric times seem more probable now than that Columbus was not the first to discover it. The importance of his achievement over that of others lay in his own faith in his success, in his definiteness of purpose, and in the fact that he awakened in Europe an interest in the discovery that led to further explorations, disclosing a new continent,
and ending in permanent settlements. The earliest voyages to America, made probably from Asia, led to settlements, but they remained unknown ever afterward to all save the settlers themselves, while those from Europe led to settlements that were either soon abandoned or otherwise came to naught. wandering Tatar, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, or Polynesian sailors who drifted intentionally or accidentally to the Pacific coast in some unrecorded and prehistoric past, and from whom the men we call our aborigines probably are descended, sent back to Asia no tidings of what they had found. Their discovery, insofar as it concerned the people of the old world, remained as if it had never been.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does the preface say about the purpose of this volume?
0:00–0:32
2
How does the author introduce the scope of the ten great epics?
0:32–3:21
3
What early voyages to America are described before Columbus?
3:21–9:22
4
How does the narrative shift to Columbus and his discoveries?
9:22–3:55:37
5
What events conclude the nineteenth section of the narrative?
3:55:37–3:56:44
6
How does the author transition into Section 20 and what new topics are introduced?
3:56:44–4:02:51
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What are the main highlights of Section 21, the account of the Coronado expedition?
4:02:51–4:05:38
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How does Section 22 begin and what key details are given about De Soto’s death?
4:05:38–6:03:52
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