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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... Present Time . Edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson ( 11 volumes , New York , 1888-90 ) . Extracts selected rather for their literary value than for their historical contents , but con- taining some of the ...
... Present Time . Edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson ( 11 volumes , New York , 1888-90 ) . Extracts selected rather for their literary value than for their historical contents , but con- taining some of the ...
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... present volume is a direct and com- petent response . The most important element in the change is doubtless the emphasis now laid on the disciplinary aims of the study of history . It has always been held , and is yet held , that a body ...
... present volume is a direct and com- petent response . The most important element in the change is doubtless the emphasis now laid on the disciplinary aims of the study of history . It has always been held , and is yet held , that a body ...
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... present , the tendency to see all things in historical perspective . Certainly there are few richer gifts which these schools have to bestow . A natural result of this enlargement of purpose is a change to methods more adequate and more ...
... present , the tendency to see all things in historical perspective . Certainly there are few richer gifts which these schools have to bestow . A natural result of this enlargement of purpose is a change to methods more adequate and more ...
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... present written summaries of the incidents mentioned or the personal characteristics described . Later on this written work may take the form of comparisons and of inferences drawn from them . For instance , in the Secondary Schools xxvii.
... present written summaries of the incidents mentioned or the personal characteristics described . Later on this written work may take the form of comparisons and of inferences drawn from them . For instance , in the Secondary Schools xxvii.
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... present time . The reader of the Source Book will at once be struck by the live- liness of American history . The accounts of the discoverers and explorers are not less exciting than the tales of the Arabian Nights . The effects of ...
... present time . The reader of the Source Book will at once be struck by the live- liness of American history . The accounts of the discoverers and explorers are not less exciting than the tales of the Arabian Nights . The effects of ...
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