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APPENDIX XII.

A SHORT LIST OF WORKS FOR TEACHERS AND READERS.

NOTE. The references at the beginning of every chapter of the foregoing History being full, only general works are given in this list. References to advanced works, such as Von Holst's Constitutional History of the United States, have been purposely omitted. A vast amount of useful and important information is contained in the Periodical Literature of the past few years; most libraries possess Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, with its supplements, by means of which consultation of periodicals is made easy.

I. BOOKS, ETC., CONTAINING ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, AND SOURCES OF

AMERICAN HISTORY.

Howard W. Preston, Documents illustrative of American History, 1606– 1863. New edition. $2.50. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

Old South Leaflets, edited by Edwin D. Mead. Five and ten cents a number. Directors of the Old South Work, Boston. Seventy-five numbers already issued; others to follow. An invaluable collection of original documents illustrative of American History. List furnished on application to the publishers.

American History Leaflets, edited by Albert B. Hart and Edward Channing. Ten cents per number. A. Lovell & Co., New York. A series similar to the Old South Leaflets. Twenty-four numbers issued; others to follow. Another excellent series. List furnished on application to publishers.

Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen M. Hutchinson. 11 vols. 8vo. $3.00 per volume. W. E. Benjamin, New York, 1891.

Representative American Orations to illustrate American Political History, edited by Alexander Johnston. 4 vols. New edition. $5.00. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Cover the period 1775-1881. Valuable introductions. Mary Sheldon Barnes and Earl Barnes, Studies in American History. $1.25. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston, 1892. Has many extracts from original sources, and can be used to great profit with a narrative History.

American Almanac, 1830-1861; Spofford's American Almanac, 1878-1889; Tribune Almanac (begun as the Whig Almanac), New York, 1838–1897; the World Almanac, New York, 1887-1897. For general statistics, etc., of

the world, The Statesmen's Year Book.
Macmillan & Co., London and New York.
1896. $1.00 per volume.
volume.

$3.00 per volume. 1863-1896.

Whitaker's Almanack. 1869Hazell's Annual, 1886-1896, London. $1.50 per

II. BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND AIDS.

Charles Kendall Adams, Manual of Historical Literature. New edition. New York, Harper's, 1889. $2.50.

W. F. Allen, History Topics for the Use of High Schools and Colleges. Paper, thirty cents. Boston, D. C. Heath & Co., 1890.

W. E. Foster, References to History of Presidential Administrations, 1789-1885. Paper, twenty-five cents. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. E. E. Sparks, Topical Reference Lists in American History. Columbus, O., A. H. Smythe, 1893.

Epochs of American History. Valuable bibliographies prefixed to each volume, and also to each chapter. See page lv.

Justin Winsor, The Reader's Handbook of the American Revolution. 1761-1783. $1.00. Boston, 1880. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America. 8 vols. Royal 8vo. $40.00. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1885-1889. Valuable bibliographies, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. A great storehouse of facts.

Methods of Teaching and Studying History, edited by G. Stanley Hall. Second edition. $1.50. Boston, D. C. Heath & Co.

W. F. Gordy and W. I. Twitchell, A Pathfinder in American History, Parts I. and II. $1.20. Boston, 1893. Lee and Shepard. Containing special reference lists for various grades, outline courses, topics, bibliog raphies, suggestions. A valuable help to the teacher.

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Hannah A. Davidson, Reference History of the United States for High Schools and Academies. Ninety cents. Boston, Ginn & Co., 1892. topical analysis, with exact references to various works.

John F. Sargent, Reading for the Young. $1.00. Boston, Library Bureau. 1890. Contains bibliography of American History for youth of all ages. E. Channing and A. B. Hart, Guide to the Study of American History. $2.00. Boston, Ginn & Co., 1896. By far the most complete work on the subject. Chiefly for advanced classes.

B. A. Hinsdale, How to teach and study History, with particular reference to the History of the United States. $1.50. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1894. An excellent work.

Mary Sheldon Barnes, Studies in Historical Method. Ninety cents. Boston, D. C. Heath & Co., 1896. A valuable and very suggestive little work.

Carl Ploetz, Epitome of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern History. Trans

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lated, with extensive additions, by William H. Tillinghast. Second edition. $3.00. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1884. The best book of its class, and invaluable for reference.

Annie E. Wilson, Compendium of United States History and Literature. Forty cents. Boston, D. C. Heath & Co., 1896.

III. MAPS.

(Reference; and Outline for Pupil's Use.)

A. B. Hart, Epoch Maps illustrating American History. Fifty cents. Longmans & Co., New York, 1891. An excellent series of fourteen maps prepared for Epochs of American History. Illustrates "The Historical Geography of the United States and of the Previous Colonies."

Townsend MacCoun, An Historical Geography of the United States. New edition. $1.00. Silver, Burdett & Co., Boston, 1890. A series of forty-five maps, illustrating American History from the earliest times to 1890. Accompanied by an explanatory text; a very useful little book.

A. B. Hart and Edward Channing, Outline Maps of the United States. The large map is in four sections, each 26 × 42 inches. Price, fifteen cents one section; fifty cents, complete. The small map is 11 × 18 inches. Price, two cents; $1.50 per hundred. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston. Messrs. Heath & Co. also publish a series of Progressive Outline Maps, United States, New England, Middle Atlantic States, Southern States, Eastern Division; Southern States, Western Division; Central States, Eastern Division; Central States, Western Division; Pacific States; the Great Lakes. Two cents each; $1.50 per hundred; also an Intermediate Outline Map of the United States for Historical and Geographical study, 28 × 40 inches. Thirty cents.

IV. GENERAL HISTORIES, ETC.

George Bancroft, A History of the United States from the Discovery of America. Author's last revision. D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1886-1888. 6 vols. $15.00. Very full. Ends with 1789.

Richard Hildreth, A History of the United States (to 1821). 6 vols. $18.00. Harper's, New York. One of the best accounts of the period.

James Schouler (Skool'er), History of the United States under the Constitution, 1789-1861. 5 vols. $11.25. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1880-1891. The best account of the period. Forms, with either Bancroft or Hildreth, a continuous history from the earliest period. A supplementary volume, covering the Civil War, is announced.

William C. Bryant and Sydney H. Gay, Popular History of the United States. 4 vols. $24.00. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Sold by subscription. Profusely illustrated. Particularly strong on colonial history.