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Poems of american history By Burton Egbert Stevenson

This amazing poetry anthology, written in 1908 , offers poems written about America from Colonial times up through the turn of the 1900’s.  With 700 pages of poetry, there are literally hundreds of poems about any historical American subject you can think of!  It offers a very valuable resource for homeschoolers studying American History.

You can download this entire book for free here.

Some of the topics covered:

Discovery, After Columbus, Colonial America, Settlements of: Virginia, New Amsterdam, New England, Religious Persecution, King Phillip’s War, Witch Hunt, Struggles, Revolution, Discontentment, Bursting of the Storm, Colonists Offended, War on the Water, War in the South, Peace, Growth, Presidents, War with Mexico, Civil War, Slavery, Army of the Potomac, Reconstruction, Conquests, War with Spain.

Famous Authors include:

Sidney Lanier, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edward Everett Hale, Julia Ward Howe, Roger Williams, and even a poem by Ben Franklin and Paul Revere himself!

Some Historical People, Things, and Places

norsemen, Columbus, Mayflower, John Cabot, Humphrey Gilbert, Cortez, Ponce De Leon, Fountain of Youth, John Smith, Pocahontas, Henry Hudson, Boston Women, Tea Party, Washington, Saratoga, General Howe, Yankee Doodle, Molly Pitcher, Savannah, Swampfox, King’s Mountain, Middlesex, Thanksgiving, First American Congress, Federal Constitution…..and way too many more to name. 

Poems of american history By Burton Egbert Stevenson