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This Country of Ours

H. E. Marshall

Book Overview: 

Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with accounts of exploration and settlement, and ends with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson.

Part 1: Stories of Explorers and Pioneers, from Leif Ericson to Sir Walter Raleigh.

Part 2: Stories of Virginia, from chapter 13 (Captain John Smith) to chapter 21 (The Knights of the Golden Horseshoe).

Part 3: Stories of New England, from chapter 22 (The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers) to chapter 34 (The Witches of Salem).

Part 4: Stories of the Middle and Southern Colonies, from chapter 35 (The Founding of Maryland) to chapter 44 (The Founding of Georgia).

Part 5: Stories of the French in America, from chapter 45 (How the Mississippi was Discovered) to chapter 50 (The Rebellion of Pontiac).

Part 6: Stories of the Struggle for Liberty, from chapter 51 (The Boston Tea-Party) to chapter 63 (A Turning Point in the World's History).

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Book Excerpt: 
. . ., an island to the south which he had heard was very fertile. But the weather was stormy, and before they had gone far the Delight was wrecked, and nearly all on board were lost.

"This was a heavy and grievous event, to lose at one blow our chief ship freighted with great provision, gathered together with much travail, care, long time, and difficulty. But more was the loss of our men to the number almost of a hundred souls." So wrote Master Edward Hay who commanded the Golden Hind, and who afterwards wrote the story of the expedition.

After this "heavy chance" the two ships that remained beat up and down tacking with the wind, Sir Humphrey hoping always that the weather would clear up and allow him once more to get near land. But day by day passed. The wind and waves continued as stormy as ever, and no glimpse of land did the weary sailors catch.

It was bitterly cold, food was growing scarce, and day by. . . Read More

Community Reviews

A wonderful forest view of American history. This book is of a higher reading level than "Our Island Home", so it can be slower reading. For a book written in 1917, it has aged well, though students will need to be reminded that the book was written during WWI and references to "of all the president

A three year journey through this book as one of our history books taught me so much. There’s some outdated and racist language but was an opportunity to discuss the thinking of the time it was written.

Not the best book we used for our homeschool history studies. Being a British author, Marshal brought her biases into American history skewing the story of our own country. The chapters were quite rushed when we were looking for a deeper dive into details.
President Wilson was put into a far better l

Mostly Excellsnt.

I learned more about American history than I knew from school. The early history of
the various colonies is never taught. School texts jump straight to the Mayflower and Thanksgiving the revolution, the constitution, the civil war, a nd the world wars, which leaves out so much other

After reading her other books: our island story, story of Europe and story of Scotland it lends perspective to this book. She calls people savages and barbarians in those books all of the time, including original Britons. So, her using that term in this book isn't so bad. It is a product of it's tim

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