Tappan’s _Elementary History of Our Country_, Chapters 4 to 9 inclusive.  These deal with the whole period of colonization.

Thwaites and Kendall’s History of the United States for Schools.  Chapters 3 to 9 inclusive.  This is a more advanced book which amplifies the story.  There are valuable suggestions for reading in standard literature.

Guitteau’s Preparing for Citizenship.  Chapter 19 is of great inspirational value.

Webster’s _Americanization and Citizenship_.  The following paragraphs set forth American ideals in their origin and development:  44, 52, 53, 54, 55, 63, 73, 117-121.

Tappan’s _Our European Ancestors_.  Chapters 16-20 inclusive.  These describe the European rivalries which influenced the colonization of America.

Tappan’s _Little Book of Our Flag_.  Particularly chapters 1 and 2 respectively, “The Flags that Brought the Colonists,” and “The Pine Tree Flag and Others.”

Griffis’s Young People’s History of the Pilgrims.  The conditions which led to the sailing of the Pilgrims are clearly sketched and emphasis is laid on the viewpoint of the Pilgrim boys and girls.

Griffis’s _The Pilgrims in Their Three Homes:  England, Holland, and America_.  The life of the Pilgrims in church and school, at work and play, including their flight and refuge, is fully described.

Tappan’s _American Hero Stories_.  Five stories center around the colonists, of whom, of course, Miles Standish is one.

Tappan’s _Letters from Colonial Children_.  These letters give an idea of life in representative American colonies seen through a child’s eyes.  They present a vivid and historically accurate picture of the times.

Hawthorne’s _Grandfather’s Chair_.  These stories have never grown old or tiresome to children—­and probably never will.  No stories ever gave a better introduction to our history from the settlement of New England to the War for Independence.

Deming and Bemis’s _Stories of Patriotism_.  A series of stirring tales of patriotic deeds by Americans from the time of the Colonists to the present.

Bemis’s _The Patriotic Reader_.  The selections cover the history of our country from the discovery of America to our entrance into the Great War.  They give one a familiarity with literature—­new and old—­that presents the highest ideals of freedom and justice.

Longfellow’s _Courtship of Miles Standish_.  A well annotated edition is published in the Riverside Literature Series.

Jane G. Austin’s The Old Colony Stories.  These novels, dealing with the early settlers of Plymouth, have taken their place among the American classics, and their combination of romantic interest, real literary quality, and historical accuracy has won for them wide popularity.  The titles alone bring before the mind a vision of the most famous colonists:  Betty Alden, A Nameless Nobleman, Standish of Standish, Dr. LeBaron and his Daughters, David Alden’s Daughter and Other Stories.