COMMITTEES APPOINTED TO ADVISE AND CONSULT WITH THE EDITOR

THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Charles Francis Adams, LL.D., President
Samuel A. Green, M.D., Vice-President
James Ford Rhodes, LL.D., 2d Vice-President
Edward Channing, Ph.D., Prof. History Harvard

Univ.

Worthington C. Ford, Chief of Division of MSS. Library of Congress

THE WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Reuben G. Thwaites, LL.D., Secretary and Superintendent

Frederick J. Turner, Ph.D., Prof. of American History Wisconsin University

James D. Butler, LL.D., formerly Prof. Wisconsin

University

William W. Wight, President
Henry E. Legler, Curator

THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

William Gordon McCabe, Litt.D., President

Lyon G. Tyler, LL.D., Pres. of William and Mary

College

Judge David C. Richardson

J. A. C. Chandler, Professor Richmond College
Edward Wilson James

THE TEXAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Judge John Henninger Reagan, President

George P. Garrison, Ph.D., Prof. of History Uni

versity of Texas

Judge C. W. Raines

Judge Zachary T. Fullmore

THE AMERICAN NATION: A HISTORY

VOLUME 26

NATIONAL IDEALS

HISTORICALLY TRACED

1607-1907

BY

ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

WITH MAPS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

1907

Copyright, 1907, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

All rights reserved.

Published December, 1907.