Contents

Introduction: A critical survey of American history, in the manner of William Lyon Phelps -- Cristofer Colombo: A comedy of discovery, in the manner of James Branch Cabell -- Main Street: Plymouth, Mass., in the manner of Sinclair Lewis -- Courtship of Miles Standish, in the manner of F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Spirit of '75: Letters of a Minute Man, in the manner of Ring Lardner -- The Whiskey Rebellion, in the bedtime story manner of Thornton W. Burgess -- How love came to General Grant, in the manner of Harold Bell Wright -- Custer's last stand, in the manner of Edith Wharton -- For the freedom of the world: A drama of the Great War. Act I in the manner of Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews; Act 2 in the manner of Eugene O'Neill.