American History Told by Contemporaries: Welding of the Nation 1845 - 1900Albert Bushnell Hart The ground covered by this volume includes many stirring events. It begins with the Mexican War and the consequent renewal of the slavery contest, and it leads through the exciting AFifties. Then comes the Civil War which is treated in detail; on the causes, conditions, and progress of that titanic struggle, the participants, both civil and military, speak with directness and cogency. The troubled and confused Reconstruction period is illustrated by extracts which bring out the main events and scenes; there is no attempt to restate the wearisome debates, or to bring out the details of party and personal controversy. Our forefathers did interesting things and left entertaining records. The story of our nation=s development is clearer for the suggestions made by these writers. They are prejudiced; they see but a part of what is going on; they leave many gaps; but, after all, they tell the story.The collection was selected and edited in 1900 by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University, and a well-respected and published scholar. |
Contents
PART I | 1 |
A Good Library of Sources | 7 |
Senator Daniel Webster | 52 |
CHAPTER IVCONDITIONS OF SLAVERY | 59 |
CHAPTER VFUGITIVE SLAVES | 80 |
CONTEST RENEWED | 97 |
PART IV | 151 |
President James Buchanan | 196 |
CHAPTER XXIEMANCIPATION | 390 |
CHAPTER XXIIYEAR OF VICTORY | 412 |
PART VII | 445 |
142 | 448 |
147 | 465 |
151 | 479 |
155 | 492 |
CHAPTER XXIXFOREIGN RELATIONS | 542 |
Voice of the Northern Women 1861 | 236 |
84 | 256 |
The Rough Side of Campaigning 1862 | 263 |
CHAPTER XVITHE SOUTHERN ARMIES | 277 |
LieutenantColonel Arthur James Lyon Fremantle | 284 |
CHAPTER XVIIWARTIME GOVERNMENT | 290 |
97 | 293 |
John Bright M P | 296 |
PROGRESS OF THE | 306 |
CHAPTER XXYEAR OF ADVANCE | 359 |
Proposed Intervention in Cuba 1875 | 557 |
President Baron Alphonse de Courcel James Lord Hannen and Senator | 564 |
180 | 573 |
Commodore George Dewey | 579 |
193 | 616 |
196 | 625 |
William Henry McElroy | 629 |
Theodore Roosevelt | 635 |
CHAPTER XXXIVSOCIAL PROBLEMS | 647 |
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