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Excerpt from The Narragansett Planters: A Study of Causes Misunderstandings were frequent and charges of corruption or worse have been urged. In 1672 a truce was made. Richard Smith became a Rhode Island assistant and the Atherton deeds were confirmed by that colony in the most positive manner. In 1708, however, this confirmation was disregarded by Rhode Island. Nor do the Atherton proprie tors seem to' have adhered much better to their side ...

Excerpt from Guide to the Study and Reading of American History As to the general scope of the work a paragraph may be quoted from the preface to the first edition: N 0 one can be better aware than the authors of the inadequacy of this work, the immense mass of rich material on American history cannot be condensed into a single volume, and doubtless much has been omitted that ought to go in, or inserted that might well be left out. It is to b...

Excerpt from A History of the United States, Vol. 5 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 imperfec...

Excerpt from A History of the United States, Vol. 4 Up to 1800, house warming was by means of wood fires in the old-fashioned fireplaces, although Franklin and Count Rumford had already designed more effective means for util izing the heat of burning wood and coal. About 1809 adver tisements of stoves and furnaces begin to appear in the news papers.l Jefferson used coal brought from Richmond by water to heat the presidential mansion during a ...

Excerpt from The United States of America: 1765-1865 European For those who wish to carry their studies further, the bibliography appended to each volume will act as a guide to original sources of information and works more detailed and authoritative. Considerable attention will be paid to geography, and each volume will be furnished with such maps and plans as may be requisite for the illustration of the text. About the Publisher Forgotte...

Excerpt from A History of the United States, Vol. 3: The American Revolution 1761-1789 "Government is a conditional compact between king and people. ... A violation of the covenant by either party discharges the other from its obligation." "An Act [of Parliament] against the Constitution is void." In these thirty words Patrick Henry and James Otis denied the divine origin of the British kingship and the legislative supremacy of the British Pa...

Excerpt from The Story of the Great Lakes For three hundred years the Great Lakes have been the centre of an immensely varied and interesting history. They were originally the home of savages, they were discovered and explored by Frenchmen, they became the scene of a century-long struggle for possession by Indians of many tribes and white men of three nations, and they have been finally occupied and developed by Americans. In every epoch they...

Excerpt from The Barrington-Bernard Correspondence: And Illustrative Matter, 1760-1770, Drawn From the "Papers of Sir Francis Bernard" (Sometime Governor of Massachusetts-Bay) The letters printed in this volume are drawn from the collection of original documents and transcripts which Jared Sparks brought together in the course of his extended editorial career. For years he was Professor of American History in Harvard University and, for some ...

Excerpt from First Lessons in United States HistoryThe artist who drew this picture had some queer ideas as to the size of Columbus and of the Santa Maria.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the ori...

Excerpt from Lectures: Read to the Seniors in Harvard CollegeI have not attempted a systematic view of rhetoric, either in compliance with the statutes of the professor ship, or according to any idea of my own. So obvious will this be, that the lectures may Often be more justly regarded as essays upon subjects suggested by rhetoric than as orderly treatises upon its proper topics. As I have taken but a part of the course for publication, and, ...

This 1930 history of the United States of America between 1765 and 1865 forms part of the Cambridge Historical Series. Many of the major historical events and contexts of the period are covered, beginning with the status of the colonists in 1765 and moving through to the Civil War.

Excerpt from Guide to the Study of American HistoryIn Part I we have therefore placed in type a body of informa tion for teachers, students, readers, and librarians. This includes a set of lists of related books, which may serve investigators, purchasers of libraries, instructors, and workers among them are selected lists of state, town, county, and city histories, national, colonial, state, and local records and statutes, biographies, writ in...