Product Description

In This Country of Ours H. E. Marshall tells the story of America from the start of the settlements, to 1912, ending with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. She tells it in a fashion that children are able to understand, and that will keep them interested. Marshall has filled this book with about 100 years of history, breaking them down by regions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #213109 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 380 pages

About the Author
Henrietta Elizabeth (H.E.) Marshall is famous for her 1905 children's history of England, Our Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls, illustrated by A.S. Forrest. In the USA the book was entitled An Island Story. The book was a bestseller, was printed in numerous editions, and for fifty years was the standard and much-loved book by which children learned the history of England.

Customer Reviews

This Country of Ours
This is a great book. I am homeschooling and am using this book for supplemental history for my eight and eleven year old. I love H. Marshall's style and would recommend this book to anyone who is tired of the dry textbook style of historical writings. You will not be disappointed. Beautiful engravings also.

Well written history book
It seems to me that since the other reviewer is so coy about this subject he or she knew so much about, we have to take an anonymous stranger's word for it that an unknown subject had some unknown errors that rendered the entire book unreadable. If we were allowed to know for ourselves what the topic was, then perhaps we could judge for ourselves.

IMO, Mrs. Marshall tells a riveting story of America's history that cannot help but engage the attention and hearts of young readers. Because she wrote a hundred years ago she sometimes uses terms I would not (savages)- I just change the word.

She did her homework well but the best historical research available to her at the time is not always the best historical research available to us at this time- so I explain that. It's a great way to help children learn that perspectives in history change and that point of view influence the retelling.

I have yet to see a history book which does not have a viewpoint or historical information with which I differ. I can fix those things. H.E. Marshall's engaging, delightful, interesting writing style needs no alteration, and I can't fix tepid writing as easily as I can an errant fact.

Her book is available online as an etext, and I suggest those interested look it up and read a few pages and make up their own minds.

This Country of Ours
A great book easy for children ages 8 yrs old to adults to read. It presents the facts about history and the lives of the men and women that is often lost in history books in this present day. There are Christian morals and Biblical truths discussed in the lives of our forefathers. I highly recommend this interesting book.