First published in 1885, "Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans" is the charming and engaging American history book for children by Edward Eggleston. Best known for his "Hoosier" series, which depicted the life of a school teacher in rural Indiana in the mid-1800s, Eggleston was an American historian, Methodist preacher, and prolific author. Written to be accessible and engaging for elementary school children, Eggleston introduces many famous...

Presents twenty stories, including such titles as "Bobby and the Key-Hole," "Simon and the Garuly," "The Story of a Flutter-Wheel," and "Flat Tail the Beaver."

Published in 1893, this collection of eleven short stories includes "Sister Tabea," "The Gunpowder Plot," "The Story of a Valentine," "Talking for Life," and "The Christmas Club." Eggleston writes in his preface, "By these I am willing to be judged."

Based on the author's own life as well as the life of Ohio itinerant preacher Jacob Young, this 1874 novel of a frontier Methodist minister and Bible agent presents a rollicking yet realistic view of early American life in the Midwest. Corn-shuckings, camp meetings, revivals, revels, and highwaymen color this novel-as-social-history.

Published in 1871, this was Eggleston's first and most successful novel. Eggleston's use of authentic regional dialect was highly influential on the subsequent course of American literature. Based on the experiences of Eggleston's brother George, the novel follows a young schoolmaster in his first year of teaching at a backwoods Indiana school.

Published in 1872, this novel sets a love story amidst the utopian Millerite sect in pioneer Indiana with its belief in a coming apocalypse "sometime between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844," (in the words of its charismatic leader, William Miller).

This juvenile history, published in 1878, and cowritten by Eggleston's daughter, Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye, is a dramatic rendition of the life of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh (1768-1813) and his brother Tenskwatawa (1775-1836), known as the Shawnee Prophet.

Published in 1872, this novel sets a love story amidst the utopian Millerite sect in pioneer Indiana with its belief in a coming apocalypse sometime between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, (in the words of its charismatic leader, William Miller).