The Story of Liberty (Illustrated Edition)

This "Story of Liberty" is a true narrative. It covers a period of five hundred years fight for liberty, from the Magna Carta (1215) up to the landing of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts (1620)

Contents:

John Lackland and the Barons

The Man Who Preached After He Was Dead

The Fire That Was Kindled in Bohemia

What Laurence Coster and John Gutenberg Did for Liberty

The Men Who Ask Questions

How a Man Tried to Reach the East by Sailing West

The New Home of Liberty

A Boy Who Objected to Marrying His Brother's Widow

The Man Who Can Do No Wrong

The Boy Who Sung for His Breakfast

What the Boy Who Sung for His Breakfast Saw in Rome

The Boy-Cardinal

The Boy-Emperor

The Field of the Cloth of Gold

The Men Who Obey Orders

Plans That Did Not Come to Pass

The Man Who Split the Church in Twain

The Queen Who Burned Heretics

How Liberty Began in France

The Man Who Filled the World With Woe

Progress of Liberty in England

How the Pope Put Down the Heretics

The Queen of the Scots

St. Bartholomew

How the "Beggars" Fought for Their Rights

Why the Queen of Scotland Lost Her Head

The Retribution That Followed Crime

William Brewster and His Friends

The Star of Empire

The "Half-Moon"

Strangers and Pilgrims



Charles Carleton Coffin (1823 – 1896) was an American journalist, American Civil War correspondent, author and politician. Coffin was one of the best-known newspaper correspondents of the American Civil War. He has been called "the Ernie Pyle of his era."