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Poetry.

- Longfellow's "John Endicott," "Giles Corey," and "Courtship of Miles Standish."

Whittier's "Changeling," "Wreck of Rivermouth," "Exiles," and "Cassandra Southwick."

Pierpont's "Pilgrim Fathers."

Mrs. Hemans's "Landing of the Pilgrims."

History.

COLONIAL HISTORY OF MIDDLE STATES.

State Histories: Brodhead's and O'Callaghan's "New York."
Whitehead's "New Jersey."

Sypher's "Pennsylvania."

Irving's "Knickerbocker's New York."
Biography.-Clarkson's and Dixon's "Penn."

Sparks's "American Biographies:" Cleveland's "Hudson (vol. x.),
Ellis's "Penn" (xxii.).

Fiction. - Irving's "Wolfert's Roost" and "Rip Van Winkle" (in "Sketch Book ").

Paulding's "Dutchman's Fireside" and "Book of St. Nicholas."

Cooper's "Last of the Mohicans," "Water-Witch," and "Satanstoe."
Mrs. Grant's "Memoirs of an American Lady."

Myers's "First of the Knickerbockers" and "Young Patroon."

Bird's "Hawks of Hawk-Hollow."

COLONIAL HISTORY OF SOUTHERN STATES.

History. Smith's "True Relation of Virginia" (reprinted, Boston,

1866).

State Histories: McSherry's "Maryland."

Campbell's "Virginia."

Williamson's "North Carolina."

Ramsay's "South Carolina."

Jones's "Georgia."

Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia."

Meade's "Old Churches of Virginia."

Biography."Sparks's "American Biographies:" Smith (i.), Ogle

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INDIAN WARS.

History. Drake's "Book of the Indians" and "Indian Wars."

Parkman's "Conspiracy of Pontiac."

Morgan's "League of the Iroquois."

Warburton's "Conquest of Canada."

Biography.- Sparks's "American Biographies:" Lives of Eliot (v.).
Brainerd (viii.), Mason (xiii.).

Fiction.-Cooper's "Last of the Mohicans" [Fort William Henry].
Thackeray's "Virginians" [Braddock and Quebec].

James's "Ticonderoga."

Tiffany's "Brandon."

Hall's "Twice Taken" [Louisburg].

Poetry. Longfellow's "Evangeline."

Whittier's "Pentucket," "St. John," "Mary Garvin," "Mogg Megone."

History.

REVOLUTION.

Winsor's "Reader's Handbook of the Revolution."
Lossing's "Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution."

Frothingham's "Siege of Boston" and "Rise of the Republic."
Biography. Sparks's "Washington" and "Franklin."

Irving's "Washington."

Franklin's "Autobiography."

Parton's "Franklin," "Jefferson," and "Burr."

Parker's "Historic Americans."

C. F. Adams's "Life of John Adams," and "John Adams's Diary."
Goodrich's "Lives of Signers of the Declaration."

G. W. Greene's "Life of General Greene."

Wirt's "Patrick Henry." Mackenzie's "Paul Jones."

Sparks's "American Biographies:" Lives of Stark (i.), Allen (i.),
Arnold (iii.), Pulaski (xii.).

Fiction. Cooper's "Spy," "Pilot," "Lionel Lincoln," "Wyandotte," and "Chain-Bearer."

Motley's "Morton's Hope."

Mrs. Child's "Rebels."

Thompson's "Rangers."

Miss Sedgwick's "Linwoods."

Kennedy's "Horse-Shoe Robinson."

Simms's "Mellichampe" and "Partisan."

Paulding's "Old Continental."

Winthrop's "Edwin Brothertoft."

Hawthorne's "Septimius Felton."

Poetry. Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride."

Bryant's "Song of Marion's Men."

Poetry. Whittier's "Rangers."

Trumbull's" McFingal."

Calvert's "Arnold and André."

Moore's "Songs and Ballads of the Revolution."

History.

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FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR.

Cooper's "History of the Navy of the United States."
Griswold's "Court of Washington."

Lossing's "Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812."

Wilson's "Rise and Fall of the Slave Power."

Giddings's "Exiles of Florida."

Mayer's "History of the Mexican War."

Jay's "Review of the Mexican War."

Dunlop's "History of the Arts of Design in America."

Duyckinck's "American Literature."

Biography.-C. F. Adams's "Life of J. Q. Adams," "Diary" of J. Q. A. Mrs. Adams's "Letters."

Parton's "Jackson."

E. Quincy's "Josiah Quincy."

Sparks's "American Biographies:" Fulton (x), Fitch (xvi.), Decatur (xxi.), Boone (xxiii.).

Benton's "Thirty Years' View." "American Statesmen " (series).

Frothingham's "Theodore Parker."

Redpath's and Webb's "John Brown." Travels."Lewis and Clarke's Expedition." Fiction.- Wirt's "Letters of a British Spy."

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Judd's "Margaret" [New England].

Paulding's "Westward Ho" [Virginians in Kentucky].

Bird's "Nick of the Woods" [Indians and Kentucky settlers].

Kennedy's "Swallow Barn" [Virginia].

Charles Brockden Brown's Novels.

Smith's "Jack Downing."

Hall's "Legends of the West."

Mrs. Stowe's "Minister's Wooing," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "Dred."
Galt's "Lawrie Todd " [Western emigration].

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Lowell's "Biglow Papers" (first series: Mexican War).

Whittier's " Angels of Buena Vista" and "Anti-slavery Poems."

CIVIL WAR.

History. Moore's "Rebellion Record."

Greeley's "American Conflict."

Draper's "American Civil War."

Pollard's "Lost Cause" (Confederate).

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'Campaigns of the Civil War " (series).

Nichols's "Story of the Great March."

Coffin's "Following the Flag" and "My Days and Nights on the
Battlefield."

Higginson's "Army Life in a Black Regiment."

Biography. Badeau's "Military History of General Grant."
Bowman's and Irwin's "Sherman and his Campaigns."
Headley's "Farragut and our Naval Commanders."

Pollard's "Jefferson Davis."

Nason's "Sumner."

Holland's and Raymond's "Lincoln."

Chesney's "Military Biographies" (Grant, Lee, Farragut).

Higginson's "Harvard Memorial Biographies" (Memoirs of Harvard
Students and Graduates in the War).

Fiction. Mrs. Child's "Romance of the Republic."

Trowbridge's "Cudjo's Cave," "Three Scouts," and "Drummer Boy."
De Forest's "Miss Ravenel's Conversion."

Coffin's "Winning his Way."

Mrs. Austin's "Dora Darling."

Poetry. Moore's "Lyrics of Loyalty" and "Rebel Rhymes."

Simms's "War Poetry of the South."

Whittier's "In War Time."

Lowell's "Biglow Papers" (second series) and "Harvard Commem

oration Ode."

Mrs. Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

LIST OF PRESIDENTS AND VICE-PRESIDENTS.

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George Clinton

Elbridge Gerry

Virginia

John Quincy Adams

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Daniel D. Tompkins
John C. Calhoun .
John C. Calhoun
Martin Van Buren
Richard M. Johnson
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Chester A. Arthur. Grover Cleveland 23 Benjamin Harrison

New York Indiana

Levi P. Morton

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Two terms: 1809-1817.
Two terms: 1817-1825.
One term: 1825-1829.
Two terms: 1829-1837.
One term: 1837-1841.
One month: 1841.

3 yrs. and 11 months: 1841-1845.
One term: 1845-1849.

1 year and 4 months: 1849-1850.
2 yrs. and 8 months: 1850-1853.
One term: 1853-1857.

One term: 1857-1861.

I term and 1 month: 1861-1865.

3 yrs. and 11 months: 1865-1869.
Two terms: 1869-1877.

One term: 1877-1881.
Six and a half months, 1881.
3 years, 5 months: 1881-1885.
One term: 1885-1889.

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