Bill Nye's History of the United States - PDF ebook

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Bill Nye's History of the United States

Bill Nye's History of the United States

Interesting idea to illustrate the history with humour and comic illustrations. 

From Introduction:

Facts in a nude state are not liable crim lally, any more than bright and beautiful children commit a felony by being born thus; but it is the solemn duty of those having these children in charge to put appropriate, healthful, and even attractive apparel upon them at the earliest possible moment. It is thus with facts.

 They are the framework of history, not the drapery. They are like the cold, hard, dishevelled, damp, and uncomfortable body under the knife of the demonstrator, not the bright and bounding boy, clothed in graceful garments and filled to every tingling capillary with a soul. We, each of us, the artist and the author, respect facts. We have never, either of us, said an unkind word regarding facts. But we believe that they should not be placed before the public exactly as they were born. We want to see them embellished and beautified. 

That is why this history is written. Certain facts have come into the possession of the artist and author of this book regarding the history of the Republic down to the present day. We find, upon looking over the records and documents on file in the various archives of state and natio^, that they are absolutely beyond question, and it is our object to give these truthfully. 

These rough and untidy, but impregnable truths, dressed in the sweet persuasive language of the author, and fluted, embossed, embroidered, and embellished by the skilful hand of the artist, are now before you. History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished, and died ; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs. If we succeed in this way and administer his- torical truth in the smooth capsule of the cartoonist and the commentator, we are content. If not, we know whose fault it will be, but will not get mad and swear about it.

Some contents:

The Discovery of America 13
CHAPTER II.
Other Discoveries — Wet and Dry 23
CHAPTER III.
The Thirteen Original Colonies 36
CHAPTER IV.
The Plymouth Colony 47

CHAPTER V.
Drawbacks of being a Colonist 55
CHAPTER VI.
The Episode of the Charter Oak 62
CHAPTER VII.
The Discovery of New York 72
CHAPTER VIII.
The Dutch at New Amsterdam 82
CHAPTER IX.
Settlement of the Middle States 02
CHAPTER X.
The Early Aristocracy 102
CHAPTER XI.
Intercoloni \l and Indian Wars no
CHAPTER XII.
The personality of Washington 124
CHAPTER XIII.
Contrasts with the Present Day 131
CHAPTER XIV.
The Revolutionary War 142
CHAPTER XV.
Benjamin Franklin,  etc 152
CHAPTER XVI.
The Critical Period 160
CHAPTER XVII.
The Beginning of the End 170

the book details :

Author: Bill Nye

Illustrator:  Frederick Burr Opper,

Publication dated: 1894

Company: Chicago: Thompson & Thomas

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