Broad Stripes and Bright Stars: Stories of American History (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Broad Stripes and Bright Stars: Stories of American HistoryI have written this book because I believe that the story Of the American people as it is embodied in the history of our United States supplies the most important material for character building in the entire field of elementary education, and should be Offered to children in a new, humanitarian way as a means of helping them to understand the present.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.