Source-book of American History: Ed. for Schools and ReadersAlbert Bushnell Hart Macmillan, 1899 - 408 страница This book offers a survey of American history, from the earliest colonial times through the Spanish-American War. The source book is directed at an adolescent crowd, and contains further explanations in the margins. The subject matter is rather balanced between political, military, and societal events and trends. |
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... hand - writing could be found than the Mayflower Compact of 1620. The two pieces of Continental currency show the rude engraving and printing of the time , as well as the financial devices of the Revolution . Charles Carroll of ...
... hand - writing could be found than the Mayflower Compact of 1620. The two pieces of Continental currency show the rude engraving and printing of the time , as well as the financial devices of the Revolution . Charles Carroll of ...
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... hand ; and that the knowledge of the writer of history goes no farther than the sum of his sources . On the Revolution , for instance , the pupil must realize that the books quote only a few out of hundreds of sources , and that ...
... hand ; and that the knowledge of the writer of history goes no farther than the sum of his sources . On the Revolution , for instance , the pupil must realize that the books quote only a few out of hundreds of sources , and that ...
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... hand can possibly do . The stories they have to tell are often quaint in style , but they are easy to comprehend , and never so long in any case as to be tedious . The hard thing , indeed , will be not to read them all at a sitting ...
... hand can possibly do . The stories they have to tell are often quaint in style , but they are easy to comprehend , and never so long in any case as to be tedious . The hard thing , indeed , will be not to read them all at a sitting ...
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... hand acquaintance with even a few sources was not possible for schools , even for Normal Schools , because it was a long and costly task to get together a sufficient library of sources to be really representative . Such books as this ...
... hand acquaintance with even a few sources was not possible for schools , even for Normal Schools , because it was a long and costly task to get together a sufficient library of sources to be really representative . Such books as this ...
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... hands of each pupil , with the understanding that they are to be studied , not merely read . Text - books or good secondary histories , up - to - date narratives , should always be used in connection with the Source Book ; for each ...
... hands of each pupil , with the understanding that they are to be studied , not merely read . Text - books or good secondary histories , up - to - date narratives , should always be used in connection with the Source Book ; for each ...
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