Six Studies In American History

Author : Mary Sheldon Barnes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330002261
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Studies in American History written by Mary Sheldon Barnes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in American History The distinction of this book is, that Columbus, Washington, Boone, and the other makers of America have been its chief authors, the editors having thrown in only such connections and made such omissions as were necessary to make a short, continuous, and intelligible narrative. The book is thus extracted from the very sources of history, and forms in itself a small collection of these sources. These extracts from the sources are arranged in seven groups of lessons, each group dealing with one of the large aspects of our history. The first group is a mere introduction, teaching something of the history of geographical knowledge and discovery before the time of Columbus; the second is taken from the letters, journals, and stories of the men who discovered one or another part of our great continent; the third group is taken from the records of the days when Englishmen began to settle all along our Atlantic coast; the fourth tells us how it was that these Englishmen in America grew discontented with the rule of their king, fought against him, and finally won their total independence of England, becoming the United States of America; in the fifth group we see the territorial growth of our people westward from the Alleghanies to the Golden Gate, and their constitutional growth from the Confederation to the Union; the sixth group is taken from the records of our great civil strife; and the seventh and last from those of the completed Union. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.