The World Around Us #9

Dates

Cover date

May 1959

On sale

March 6, 1959

Pages

84

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• Follow Old Minick · 6 pages

  True story of Medal of Honor winner John W. Minick who was killed during WWII.

• Here Comes Yankee Doodle! · 5 pages

  Story of the early militia and how George Washington and Baron Von Steuben made them into an army.

• Frontier Forts · 5 pages

  The story of President Washington's struggle to force congress to allow for a standing peacetime army and the building of forts in the Ohio valley.

• The Corps of Cadets · 5 pages

  Story of the founding of West Point Military Academy.

• Two Too Many · 1 pages

  Amusing story about James Whistler as a cadet at West Point during an art class. James Whistler later became a famous artist.

• Rifles and Arrows · 4 pages

  Short history of the Indian Wars.

• Custer's Last Stand · 8 pages

  A typical white man's version of the Battle at Little Big Horn with Custer as hero.

• Northern Raiders · 8 pages

  Re-telling of the story of Mitchell's Raiders during the Civil War. Mitchell's Raiders became the first Medal of Honor winners.

• The Army in War: The War of 1812 · 3 pages

  History of the War of 1812

• The Mexican War · 3 pages

  Story of the Mexican War.

• The Civil War · 3 pages

  Story of the Civil War.

• The Spanish-American War · 3 pages

  Story of the Spanish-American war, and the discovery of the cure for Yellow Fever.

• World War I · 3 pages

  The story of World War I, with its modern technologies.

• World War II · 3 pages

  The story of World War II.

• The Korean War · 2 pages

  Story of the Korean War.

• The Army in Peace · 10 pages

  Sam, Bill and Lee join the peacetime army. They take different career paths. All decide to re-enlist in the army or army reserve.

• Scooter Burke's Peak · 7 pages

  True story of Medal of Honor winner Lloyd Burke.