Excerpt from Heroes of Early American History This is a history reader for the Fourth Grade. Written primarily for Pennsylvania school children, there is an emphasis on characters and incidents connected with the early history of Pennsylvania that would be overbearing in a book of more general appeal. The report of the Committee of Eight of the American Historical Association outlining a course of study in History for the elementary grades was promptly recognized as a sound basis for the development of modern and progressive curricula. The Pennsylvania state course of study as well as the more detailed syllabus prepared for the Philadelphia schools, with the preparation of which it was my pleasure and privilege to be closely identified, both show the influence of this report. This book is, first, a testimony to my firm belief in and hearty approval of the new point of view expressed in these syllabi and my intense interest in its successful operation; and, second, is an effort to gather in one book all the material, widely scattered and in some cases obscure, which this grade requires. That most children have a strong dislike for the study of history is a severe criticism of the methods employed in the past with a subject that should be of transcendent interest to all boys and girls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.