Excerpt from Writings on American History, 1902: An Attempt at an Exhaustive Bibliography of Books and Articles on United States History Published During the Year 1902 and Some Memoranda on Other Portions of AmericaThis volume was occasioned by an inquiry among various members of the American Historical Association on behalf of its Bibliographical Committee as to what was the bibliographical aid most needed by American students of history at the present time. The answers were various, but the one which impressed the present editors most was the demand for an annual bibliography. This was in part because one of them had for a num ber of years been providing each year for his own use something of this sort. Having ex perience of the need and having a certain basis of material, the most practical thing to do seemed to be to work out a method more fully and arrange if practicable for continuous publication. Thanks to the enthusiasm and industry of Mr. Morse, then a post-graduate student at Princeton, now at the University of Wisconsin, it was possible to carry out the method with some fulness, and thanks to a fund given to the Princeton University Library by John L. Cadwalader, Esq., and used for the purchase of American Historical Periodicals and Proceedings, it was possible to do most of the work at first hand.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 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.