The Master of the Strong Hearts: a Story of Custer's Last Rally

The master of the strong hearts: a story of Custer's last rally
Author Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Publisher E.P. Dutton and Company, 1898
Length 314 pages
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Historic Boys: Their Endeavors, Their Achievements and Their Times/Google Books

Historic boys: their endeavors, their achievements and their times
Author Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Publisher G. P. Putnams̓ Sons, 1885
Length 259 pages
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Manual of Geography Combined with History and Astronomy: Designed For Intermediate Classes in Public and Private Schools/Google Books

Manual of Geography Combined with History and Astronomy: Designed For Intermediate Classes in Public and Private Schools
Author James Monteith
Published 1877
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Richly illustrated, and still useful despite being outdated in places.

Boy and Girl Heroes/Google Books

Boy and Girl Heroes
Everychild's series
Author Florence Virginia Farmer
Publisher Macmillan Co., 1912
Length 137 pages
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The Land of the Long Night/Project Gutenberg

Good for learning geography of the Northern Europe(mid-elementary school level).

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The Children of the Cold(Eskimos)/Google Books

The children of the cold
Author Frederick Schwatka
Publisher Educational Pub. Co., 1899
Length 212 pages
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Geographical Readers for Elementary School/Google Books, Internet Archives & Project Gutenberg

Marta in Holland

Rafael in Italy

Boris in Russia

Fritz in Germany

Colette in France

Josefa in Spain

Umé San in Japan

Manuel in Mexico

Hassan in Egypt

Betty in Canada

Donald in Scotland

Kathleen in Ireland

Gerda in Sweden

Intermediate History of the United States: for Use in the Fifth and Sixth Grades of Catholic Schools/Google books

Intermediate history of the United States: for use in the fifth and sixth grades of Catholic schools
Volume 1270 of Harvard social studies textbooks preservation microfilm project
Authors Frank X. Sadlier, William H. Sadlier
Publisher William H. Sadlier, 1915
Length 301 pages
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New Geographies/Google Books

New Geographies
Author Ralph Stockman Tarr
Publisher The Macmillan Co., 1920
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Various History and Geography Readings: Mexico

Late elementary, early middle school. Click here.

The Story of the American Flag/ Google Books

The story of the American flag
Author Wayne Whipple
Publisher Altemus, 1910
Length 125 pages

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A Child's History of Ireland/Google Books

A Child's History of Ireland
Author Patrick Weston Joyce
Publisher Longmans, Green, 1897
Length 507 pages

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Famous Men of Modern Times

"This easy to read text will be not only be a delight for your child to read, but also provide a great insight to the foundations of the modern world. You can experience the adventurous times of the birth of the modern era through the eyes of such men as Lorenzo de Medici, Christopher Columbus, Galileo, Newton, Napoleon, Gladstone, and George Washington."

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Authors John Henry Haaren, Addison B. Poland
Publisher American Book Co., 1909
Length 352 pages

Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony/Project Gutenberg

Click here. Ages 8-10.

Our Hero, General U. S. Grant/Google Books

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Our Hero, General U. S. Grant: When, Where, and how He Fought. In Words of One Syllable
Authors Josephine Pollard, Edwin Forbes
Illustrated by Edwin Forbes
Publisher McLoughlin brothers, 1885
Length 167 pages

History of Russia for Younger Children/Google Books

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History of Russia in words of one syllable
Author Helen Ainslie Smith
Illustrated by Joseph L. Blamire, Edgar Barclay, Alexander De Rar, J. K.
Publisher A.L. Burt Co., 1898
Length 228 pages

Boys of Other Countries/Internet Archives

BOYS OF OTHER COUNTRIES
STORIES FOR AMERICAN BOYS
BY BAYARD TAYLOR
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
182 FIFTH AVENUE
1876


STORY I.
THE LITTLE POST-BOY
STORY II.
THE PASHA'S SON
STORY III.
JON OF ICELAND
STORY IV.
THE Two HERD-BOYS
STORY V.
THE YOUNG SERF

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Heroes of Progress: Stories of Successful Americans/Google books

Heroes of Progress: Stories of Successful Americans

By Eva March Tappan

Published by Houghton Mifflin company, 1921

263 pages

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CONTENTS

John James Audubon, Lover and Student of Birds i

Mark Hopkins, President of Williams College . . . .11

Cyrus H. McCoRM1CK, Inventor of the Reaper .... 20

Charles Goodyear, a Man who Persevered .... 30

William T. G.morton, Master of Pain 39

Elias Howe, Inventor of the Sewing-Machine .... 47

Maria Mitchell, Astronomer and Teacher 54

Henry Oscar Houghton, Printer and Publisher . . .61

Cyrus W. Field, the Manwho Laid the Atlantic Cable. . .71

Jean Lou1s Rodolphe Agassiz, Beloved Teacher of Science . 79

Julia Ward Howe, Author of the "Battle Hymn of the Repub-

lic" 91

George Thorndike Angell, Knight of Kindness to Animals 97

Luther Burbank, Plant-Breeder 106

Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the Telephone . .115

John Wanamaker, Founder of the Departme.nl Store . . .122

Frances E. Willard, Temperance Reformer 132

Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross . . . 140

Booker T. Washington, Founder of Tuskegee Institute . . 147

Augustus Saint-gaudens, Greatest American Sculptor . .157

James Jerome Hill, Builder of Railroads 168

John Muir, the Man who Loved Trees and Mountains . .179

Theodore Thomas, the Man who Taught us to Love Music . 189

Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor 199

Edwin Austin Abbey, Illustrator and Painter .... 208

Samuel Pierpont Langley, Inventor of the First Heavier-than-

Air Flying Machine 217

Andrew Carnegie, the Man who Would not Die Rich . . 228

William Crawford Gorgas, who Made the Canal Zone

Safe 237

Robert E. Peary, Discoverer of the North Pole .... 245

George Washington Goethals, Builder of the Panama Canal 254

Hero Stories of France/Google Books

Hero Stories of France

By Eva March Tappan

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920

204 pages

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A Practical System of Modern Geography/Google Books

Another interesting geography book, pre-Civil War. It's actually general enough to still be of use, and interesting for historical period study. The language suggests middle elementary school, easy to read and understand. Lovely illustrations throughout which could be used for projects and time lines. Comprehension questions included.


A practical system of modern geography, or A view of the present state of the world ...: Revised and illustrated by a new enlarged atlas
By Jesse Olney
Edition: 60
Published by Pratt, Woodford & co., 1849

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