﻿HISTORY STUDY IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 15 



Local history, embracing also adjoining states 1 



Eggleston's 'Great Americans for Little Americans' 2 



Tappaii's 'American Hero Stories' 1 



Indian stories 3 



Stories of the Revolution 1 



Committee of Eight course 2 



History stories in connection with United States geography 1 



History of the Flag and stories of Hiawatha 1 



Eggleston's 'Elementary United States History' as a reader 1 



Mateeial eelating to Old Woeld Histoey — 



Harding's 'City of the Seven Hills' 86 



Life of the Romans 15 



Stories of the Romans 14 



Story of Horatius, in 'Ten Boys' 5 



Greek life 21 



Greek myths 5 



Roman myths 2 



Hebrew life 3 



Bible stories 3 



Norse stories 1 



Ancient and Mediaeval stories 3 



General history stories 2 



Stories of Bible lands, Greece, and Rome 1 



Greek and Roman biography 1 



World Heroes — Joseph, Moses, David, Homer, Caesar, Charles the 

 Great, Alfred the Great, William the Conquerer, and Joan of 



Arc 1 



English history stories 1 



Stories of the Old World 1 



Material not dieectly Included in the Above Divisions — 



Historical stories selected by teacher 5 



Stories as supplementary reading 5 



Childhood of noted characters 1 



Short stories in history and legend 1 



Hunter life, shepherd life, and development of agriculture. 1 



Work correlated with literature and reading 1 



'The Cave-Boy', 'Children of the Cliff' 1 



Work correlated with language and geography 2 



Biographical stories 11 



Oral history stories 4 



Fables and folk lore 1 



Mythology 5 



In order to show the prevailing tendency in this grade a sum- 

 mary of the material given ahove follows. 



Fields Included Frequency 



I. Old Woeld Histoey — 



Roman history, biography, and myths 125 



Greek history, biography, and myths 29 



