SUGGESTIONS FOR READERS AND

TEACHERS.

EACH of the volumes in the series is intended to be complete in itself, and to furnish an account of the period it covers sufficient for the general reader or student. The paragraph numbers may be used in assigning lessons. Those who wish to supplement this book by additional reading or study will find useful the bibliographies at the heads of the chapters. For the use of teachers the following method is recommended. A chapter at a time may be given out to the class for their preliminary reading. From the references at the head of the chapter a report may then be prepared by one or more members of the class on each of the topics included in that chapter; these reports may be filed, or may be read in class when the topic is reached in the more detailed exercises. Pupils take a singular interest in such work, and the details thus obtained will add a local color to the necessarily brief statements of the text.

The following brief works will be found useful for reference and comparison, or for the preparation of topics. The set should cost not more than ten dollars.

I. DANIEL C. GILMAN: James Monroe in his Relations to the Public Service during Half a Century (American Statesmen). Boston Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1883. — Covers the period 1776-1826.

2 ALEXANDER JOHNSTON: History of American Politics. 2d ed. New York: Holt, 1885. Lucid account of political events in brief space.

3, 4. HENRY CABOT LODGE: George Washington (American Statesmen). 2 vols. Boston & New York: Houghton,

Mifflin & Co., 1889. Covers the period 1732-1799.

5. JOHN T. MORSE, JR.: Thomas Jefferson (American Statesmen). Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1883.- Covers the period 1750-1809.

6. CARL SCHURZ: Life of Henry Clay, vol. i. (American Statesmen). Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1887. Covers the period 1777-1833. Lodge's Washington, Morse's Jefferson, Gilman's Monroe, and Schurz's Clay, together, supply the place of a brief narrative history.

7. EDWARD STANWOOD: A History of Presidential Elections. 4th ed. revised. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1892. — An account of the political events of each presidential campaign, with the platforms and a statement of the

votes.

8. SIMON STERNE: Constitutional History and Political Development of the United States. 4th ed. revised. New York: Putnam's, 1888. - · An excellent brief summary of the development of the Constitution.

9.

HERMANN VON HOLST: The Constitutional and Political History of the United States. Vol. i. 1750-1833. State Sovereignty and Slavery. Chicago: Callaghan & Co., 1877. Not a consecutive history, but a philosophical analysis and discussion of the principal constitutional events.

The following books make up a serviceable library on the formation of the Union. They should cost not more than thirty dollars.

1-9. The brief works enumerated in the list above.

IO.

GEORGE TICK NOR CURTIS: Constitutional History of the United States from their Declaration of Independence to the Close of their Civil War. Vol. i. New York: Harpers, 1889 This is the only volume yet published; it is a reprint of Curtis's

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earlier History of the Constitution, in two volumes, and covers the period 1774-1790.

II.

RICHARD FROTHINGHAM: The Rise of the Republic of the United States. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1872. — A careful study of the progress of independence, from 1750 to 1783. Indispensable.

12. JUDSON S. LANDON: The Constitutional History and Government of the United States. A Series of Lectures. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1889. — The only recent brief constitutional history, except Sterne.

13-15. JOHN BACH MCMASTER: A History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War. New York: Appleton, 1883–1892. -The three volumes published cover the period 1784-1812. The point of view in the first volume is that of social history; in later volumes there is more political discussion.

16-19. JOHN T. MORSE, JR., EDITOR: American Statesmen Series. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1883-1889. SIDNEY HOWARD GAY: James Madison, 1884; Henry Cabot LODGE: Alexander Hamilton, 1882; JOHN T. MORSE, JR.: John Adams, 1885, and John Quincy Adams, 1882.

20-22. JAMES SCHOULER: History of the United States of America under the Constitution. Vols. i.-iii. Washington: Morrison, 1880-1885 [now published, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.]. This is the only recent and complete history which systematically covers the whole period from 1781 to 1861. The style is very inelegant, but it is an excellent repository of facts.

Beyond these select libraries, the bibliographies at the heads of the chapters lead the way to the most useful literature. The following are standard books upon the period of the formation of the Union. With the two sets enumerated above, they form a fair reference library. They should cost about one hundred and twenty dollars, in addition to thirty dollars for the briefer set (Nos. 1–22).

23-31. HENRY ADAMS: History of the United States of America. 9 vols. New York: Scribners, 1889-1891.- Period, 1801-1817.- Divided into four sets, for the first and second administrations of Jefferson and of Madison; each set obtainable separately. The best history of the period.

32-41. GEORGE BANCROFT: History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent. 10 vols. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1838-1874. — Vols. iv.-x. cover the period 1748-1783. Of the third edition, or "author's last revision," in six volumes (New York: Appleton, 1883-1885), vols. iii.-vi. cover the period 1763-1789. The work is rhetorical and lacks unity, but is invaluable for facts.

42, 43. JOHN FISKE: The American Revolution. Boston Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891.

2 vols.

44. JOHN FISKE: The Critical Period of American History, 1783-1789. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1888.- Remarkable narrative style.

45-50. RICHARD HILDRETH: The History of the United States of America. Two series, each 3 vols. New York: Harpers, 1849-1856 (also later editions from the same plates). Vols. ii.-vi. cover the period 1750-1821. Very full and accurate, but without foot-notes. Federalist standpoint.

51-53. JOHN J. LALOR: Cyclopædia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the United States. 3 vols. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1882-1886. — Very valuable articles on American history and politics, by Professor Alexander Johnston.

54-60. JOHN T. MORSE, JR., EDITOR: American Statesmen Series. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1883-1889. The following are the most useful volumes, besides those already mentioned: HENRY ADAMS: John Randolph, 1882; JAMES K. HOSMER: Samuel Adams, 1885; JOHN T. MORSE, JR.: Benjamin Franklin, 1889; GEORGE Pellew: John Jay, 1890; THEODORE ROOSEVELT: Gouverneur Morris, 1888; MOSES COIT TYLER: Patrick Henry, 1887; JOHN AUSTIN STEVENS: Albert Gallatin, 1884.

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61, 62. TIMOTHY PITKIN: A Political and Civil History of the United States of America, from the Year 1763 to the Close of the Administration of President Washington, in March, 1797. 2 vols. New Haven: Howe and Durrie & Peck, 1828. - An old book, but well written, and suggestive as to economic and social conditions.

63-66. GEORGE TUCKER: The History of the United States from their Colonization to the End of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in 1841. 4 vols. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1856, 1857.Practically begins in 1774. Written from a Southern standpoint.

67-74. JUSTIN WINSOR: Narrative and Critical History of America. 8 vols. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1885-1889. — Vol. vi. and part of vol. vii. cover the period 1750-1789. The rest of vol. vii. covers the period 1789-1830. Remarkable for its learning and its bibliography, but not a consecutive history.