A Parody Outline of History

Donald Ogden Stewart (1894 - 1980)

" Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in the history of these United States. Such omissions I have in this brief volume endeavored to supply. And as American history can possibly best be written by Americans and as we have among us no H. G. Wells, I have imagined an American history as written conjointly by a group of our most characteristic literary figures." - Summary by Donald Ogden Stewart

Genre(s): Humorous Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 INTRODUCTION: A CRITICAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY (In the Manner of William Lyon Phelps) Lisa Greene
00:07:26
Play 02 CRISTOFER COLOMBO, A Comedy of Discovery (In the Manner of James Branch Cabell) nzk13
00:24:34
Play 03 MAIN STREET: Plymouth, Mass. (In the Manner of Sinclair Lewis) roselbex
00:22:15
Play 04 THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH (In the Manner of F. Scott Fitzgerald) Group 00:14:49
Play 05 THE SPIRIT OF '75, LETTERS OF A MINUTE MAN (In the Manner of Ring Lardner) Brian Fullen
00:17:19
Play 06 THE WHISKY REBELLION (In the Bedtime Story Manner of Thornton W. Burgess) Srikar G
00:10:30
Play 07 HOW LOVE CAME TO GENERAL GRANT (In the Manner of Harold Bell Wright) roselbex
00:23:39
Play 08 CUSTER'S LAST STAND (In the Manner of Edith Wharton) roselbex
00:09:19
Play 09 "FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD", A DRAMA OF THE GREAT WAR roselbex
00:27:10