Volume 7. 1859—1861. Harper's Ferry; Lincoln's inauguration.

JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER. History of American politics. 2d edition. New York: H. Holt & Co. 1881.

Parties and party politics in the United States sketched with a brevity which spoils neither the instructiveness nor the interest.

History of the United States for schools. New York: H. Holt & Co. 1885.

The United States; its history and constitution. New York: C. Scribner s Sons. 1889.

Originally written for the latest edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, the remarkable excellence of this compact account of the history and constitution of the United States caused its republication separately.

LALOR. J. J., editor. Cyclopædia of political science, political economy, and of the political history of the United States. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co. 1881. 3 volumes.

MACLAY, EDGAR STANTON. History of the United States navy from 1775 to 1893. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1894. 2 volumes.

McMASTER, JOHN BACH. History of the people of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1883-95. volumes 1-4.

"Mr. McMaster's book is a valuable contribution to our history, and will be the cause of work better than its own. His industrious collection of materials, and his effective arrangement and courageous presentation of them, cannot fail to stimulate other workers in the same field. But he does not always discriminate as to the value of authorities, and his history suffers somewhat in consequence." Mellen Chamberlain, McMaster's History (Andover Review, June. 1886).

POPULAR HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. 1875-8.

A book which has been successful in interesting young readers in American history.

PRATT, MARA L. American history stories. Boston: Educational Publishing Company. 1890. volumes 1-4.

For readers of the youngest class, and happily adapted to their taste.

PRESTON, HOWARD W. Documents illustrative of American history (1606—1863). New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1886.

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. The Winning of the West. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1889-94. 3 volumes.

"Before Mr. Roosevelt began his work, there was no satisfactory account of our westward expansion as a whole. … Mr. Roosevelt had the historical insight and the good fortune to make use of a vast mass of original material. … These abundant materials [he] has used with the skill of a practised historian." The Nation, March 28, 1895.

SCHOULER, JAMES. History of the United States of America under the Constitution. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. volumes 1-5.

A sound, painstaking piece of historical work, but without much literary attractiveness.

SMITH, GOLDWIN. The United States; an outline of political history, 1492-1871. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1893.

There is probably no other living man who could put so much into a bird's-eye view of American history, and put it into English of such classical fineness, as Professor Goldwin Smith has done in this little book.

STANWOOD, EDWARD. History of Presidential elections. 2d edition, revised. Boston: Ticknor & Co. 1888.

TUCKER, GEORGE. History of the United States. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1856. 4 volumes.

By a southern writer and representing the better-minded southern view of events and movements in the first halt century of American national history.

WASHINGTON, GEORGE. Writings; collected and edited by Worthington C. Ford. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1889-91. 14 volumes.

WILSON, WOODROW. Congressional government: a study in American politics. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1885.

WINSOR, JUSTIN, editor. Narrative and critical history of America. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1886-9. 8 volumes.

"With its chapters of historical narrative by our most learned and able historical scholars, each writing upon his own special field, and with its critical essays upon the sources of information, it seems without doubt to be the most important and useful contribution over yet made to American historical science. It splendidly sums up the historical labors of a century." J. F. Jameson, History of Historical Writing in America, p. 156.

UNITED STATES: TO THE CIVIL WAR.

ADAMS HENRY. History of the United States of America [during the administrations of Jefferson and Madison]. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 1889-90. 9 volumes.

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Lives of James Madison and James Monroe, with historical notices of their administrations. Buffalo: G. H. Derby & Co. 1850.

Memoirs, comprising portions of his diary from 1795 to 1848; edited by Charles Francis Adams. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1874-5. 12 volumes.

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY and CHARLES FRANCIS. Life of John Adams; revised and corrected. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1871. 2 volumes.

ARNOLD, SAMUEL G. History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1859. 2 volumes.

BANCROFT, GEORGE. History of the formation of the Constitution of the United States. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1882. 2 volumes.

BEER, GEORGE LOUIS. The commercial policy of England toward the American colonies. New York 1893.

One of the "Studies in History, Economics and Law," edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia College.

BENTON, THOMAS H. Thirty Years' View; or a history of the working of the American government from 1820 to 1850, chiefly taken from the Congress debates, private papers of General Jackson and speeches of Senator Benton. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1856. 2 volumes.

BEVERLEY, ROBERT. History of Virginia [to 1706]; reprinted from the 2d revision edited. (London, 1722). Richmond: J. W. Randolph. 1855.

BRODHEAD, JOHN R. History of the State of New York. New York: Harper & Bros: 1853-71. 2 volumes.

BROWN, ALEXANDER, editor. The Genesis of the United States; a narrative of the movement in England, 1605-1616. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1890.

A collection of historical manuscripts now first printed, with a reissue of rare contemporaneous tracts, accompanied by brief biographies, portraits, etc.

BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY. Effect of the War of 1812 upon the consolidation of the Union. Baltimore: 1887.

Published among the Johns Hopkins University Studies in History and Political Science.

CARRINGTON. HENRY B. Battles of the American Revolution, 1775-1781: historical and military criticism. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. 1876.

A volume of battle-maps and charts, with notes, to supplement the above, was issued by the same publishers in 1881.

COFFIN, CHARLES CARLETON. The boys of '76: a history of the battles of the Revolution. New York: Harper & Bros. 1877.

Old times in the colonies. New York: Harper & Bros. 1880.

CURTIS, GEORGE T. History of the origin, formation and adoption of the constitution of the United States. New York: Harper & Bros. 1854. 2 volumes.

DOYLE, J. A. The English in America: Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas. London: Longmans. 1882.

The English in America: The Puritan Colonies. London: Longmans. 1887. 2 volumes.

DWIGHT, THEODORE. History of the Hartford Convention. New York: N. & J. White. 1833.

ELLIS, GEORGE E. The Puritan age and rule in the colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1685. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1888.

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FISKE, JOHN. The American Revolution. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1891. 2 volumes.

The War of Independence. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1889.

The last named of these two is a small book which preceded Dr. Fiske's larger history of the American Revolution, treating the same subject in a simpler way, especially for young readers. There is the same delightful clearness of narrative, and the same large intelligence of view, in both works, and they easily take the first place among histories of the Revolution.

The beginnings of New England: or the Puritan theocracy in its relations to civil and religious liberty. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1889.

The critical period of American history, 1783-89. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1888.

"It is not too much to say that the period of five years following the peace of 1783 was the most critical moment in all the history of the American people. The dangers from which we were saved in 1788 were even greater than the dangers from which we were saved in 1865.' This proposition Mr. Fiske makes abundantly good and he has turned it into a text for one of the most interesting chapters of history that has been written for many a day." John Morley, Review (Nineteenth Century, August, 1889).

FORCE, PETER. American Archives; a collection of authentic state papers [etc.], forming a documentary history of the North American colonies. Washington 1837-48. 9 volumes.

Only part of the collection, forming the 4th series (1774-1776) and 3 volumes of the 5th series, was published.

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Life, written by himself; now first edited, from original mss. and from his printed correspondence, by John Bigelow; 2d edition revised and corrected. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. 1884. 3 volumes.

FROTHINGHAM, RICHARD. The rise of the Republic of the United States. Boston: Little, Brown &; Co. 1886.

GOODWIN, JOHN A. The Pilgrim republic; an historical review of the colony of New Plymouth. Boston: Ticknor & Co. 1888.

GRAHAME, JAMES. History of the United States of North America from the plantation of the British colonies to their assumption of national independence. 2d edition revised and enlarged. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard. 1846. 2 volumes.

GREENE, GEORGE W. The German element In the War of American Independence. New York: Hurd & Houghton. 1876.

Contains biographical sketches or Baron von Steuben and General John Kalb, and an account of the German mercenaries.

Life of Nathanael Greene, major-general in the army of the Revolution. New York: Hurd & Houghton. 1871. 3 volumes.

HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, JAMES MADISON and JOHN JAY. The Federalist: a commentary on the Constitution of the United States; edited by Henry Cabot Lodge. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1892.

HAMILTON, JOHN C. Life of Alexander Hamilton, by his son. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1840. 2 volumes.

HENRY, WILLIAM WIRT. Patrick Henry: life, correspondence and speeches. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 1891. 3 volumes.

HUTCHINSON, THOMAS. History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1628-1691. Boston. 1764.

History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1691-1750. Boston. 1767.

History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1749-1774. London: J. Murray. 1828.

IRVING, WASHINGTON. Life of George Washington. New York: G. P. Putnam. 5 volumes.

Life of Washington; abridged for schools, with a brief outline of United States history, by John Fiske. Boston: Ginn & Co. 1887.

JOHNSON, ROSSITER. History of the French war, ending in the conquest of Canada. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. [1882.]

History of the war of 1812-1815. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. [1882.]

JOHNSTON, HENRY P. The campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn. Brooklyn: Long Island Historical Society. 1878.

The Yorktown campaign and the surrender of Cornwallis, 1781. New York: Harper & Bros. 1881.

JONES, THOMAS. History of New York during the Revolutionary War, and of the leading events in the other colonies at that period; edited by E. F. De Lancey. New York: New York Historical Society. 1879. 2 volumes.

A loyalist history of the Revolution, by one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the Province of New York, who wrote his account soon after the close of the war, being then in exile.

KAPP, FRIEDRICH. Life of Frederick William von Steuben. New York: Mason Bros. 1859.

LADD, HORATIO O. History of the War with Mexico. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. 1883.

LODGE, HENRY CABOT. Life and letters of George Cabot. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1877.

Short history of the English colonies in America. New York: Harper & Bros. 1881.

LOSSING, BENSON J. Life and times of Philip Schuyler. New York: Sheldon & Co. 2 volumes.

Pictorial field book of the War of 1812. New York: Harper & Bros. 1868.

Chiefly valuable for its descriptions and illustrations of the scenes of the war, personally visited by the writer.

LOWELL, EDWARD J. The Hessians, and the other German auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War. New York: Harper & Bros. 1884.

MANSFIELD, E. D. The Mexican War. 10th edition. New York: Barnes & Co. 1819.

MOORE, FRANK, editor. Diary of the American Revolution, from newspapers and original documents. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 1860. 2 volumes.

MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR. Diary and letters; edited by Anne C. Morris. London: K. Paul, Trench & Co. 1889. 2 volumes.

MORSE, JOHN T., JR. Life of Alexander Hamilton. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1876. 2 volumes.

O'CALLAGHAN, E. B. History of New Netherland; or New York under the Dutch. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1846-8. 2 volumes.

PALFREY, JOHN G. History of New England during the Stuart dynasty. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1858-64. 3 volumes.

History of New England, from the revolution of the 17th century to the revolution of the 18th. Boston: Little. Brown & Co. 1875-90. 2 volumes.

PARKMAN, FRANCIS. Works [historical]. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 11 volumes.

Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits in North America. La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West. The Old Regime in Canada. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half century of conflict (2 volumes). Montcalm and Wolfe (2 volumes.). The conspiracy of on Pontiac.

QUINCY, EDMUND. Life of Josiah Quincy, by his son. Boston: Ticknor & Field. 1868.

RANDALL, HENRY S. Life of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Derby & Jackson. 1858. 3 volumes.

RHODES, JAMES FORD. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850. New York: Harper & Bros. 1893. 2 volumes.

RIEDESEL, Major General. Memoirs, letters and journals; translated from the German by W. L. Stone. Albany: J. Munsell. 1868. 2 volumes.

RIEDESEL, Mrs. General. Letters and journals relating to the War of the American Revolution; translated from the German by W. L. Stone. Albany: J. Munsell. 1867.

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. The naval war of 1812. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1882.

SABINE, LORENZO. The American Loyalists. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1864. 2 volumes.

SCHUYLER, GEORGE W. Colonial New York: Philip Schuyler and his family. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 1885. 2 volumes.

SCOTT, EBEN G. Development of constitutional liberty in the English colonies of America. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1882.

SEWARD, F. W. Story of the life of William H. Seward. New York: Derby & Miller. 1891. 3 volumes.

SHEA, JOHN G. Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley. New York: Redfield. 1852.

SOLEY, JAMES RUSSELL. The boys of 1812 and other naval heroes. Boston: Estes & Lauriat. 1887.

For young readers.

STEDMAN, C. History of the origin, progress and termination of the American War. London. 1794. 2 volumes.

A contemporary history of the war of the Revolution written from the British standpoint, by one who served under Howe, Clinton and Cornwallis.

STEVENS, B. F. Facsimiles of manuscripts in European archives relating to America, 1773-1783; with descriptions, editorial notes, collations, references and translations. London. 1889-05. 25 volumes.

STEVENS, CHARLES ELLIS. Sources of the Constitution of the United States considered in relation to colonial and English history. London and New York: Macmillan & Co. 1894.

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STILLÉ, CHARLES J. Major-General Anthony Wayne and the Pennsylvania Line in the Continental Army. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1893.

Life and times of John Dickinson, 1732-1808. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1891.

STONE, WILLIAM L. Life and times of Sir William Johnson. Albany: J. Munsell. 1865. 2 volumes.

STORY, JOSEPH. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. Boston: Hilliard, G. & Co. 1833. 3 volumes.

SUMNER, WILLIAM G. The financier [Robert Morris] and the finances of the American Revolution. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. 1891.

TARBOX, INCREASE N. Life of Isreal Putnam. Boston: Lockwood, B. & Co. 1876.

Same [under the title of "American Institutions"]; revised and edited by F. Bowen. 7th edition. Boston: J. Allyn., 1874.

UNITED STATES, DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Documentary history of the Constitution of the United States of America, 1787-1870; derived from the records, manuscripts and rolls deposited in the Bureau of Rolls and library of the Department of State. Washington. 1894. volume 1.

WELLS, WILLIAM V. Life and public services of Samuel Adams. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1865. 3 volumes.

WHARTON, FRANCIS. editor. The Revolutionary diplomatic correspondence of the United States. Washington. 6 volumes.

WINSOR, JUSTIN. Reader's handbook of the American Revolution, 1761-1783. Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co. 1880.

It seems safe to say that no period in the history of any other country has so perfect a guide to the literature relating to it as this which Mr. Winsor has prepared for the period of the American Revolution.

WINTHROP ROBERT C. Life and letters of John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company. 2d edition. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1869. 2 volumes.

UNITED STATES: THE CIVIL WAR AND AFTER.

BADEAU, ADAM. Military history of Ulysses S. Grant, 1861-65. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1868-81. 3 volumes.

BATTLES AND LEADERS OF THE CIVIL WAR; contributions by Union and Confederate officers; edited by R. U. Johnson and Clarence C. Buell. New York: Century Co. 1887-9. 4 volumes.

BLAINE, JAMES G. Twenty years of Congress: from Lincoln to Garfield; with a review of the events which led to the political revolution of 1860. Norwich, Connecticut: The Henry Bill Publishing Co. 1884-6. 2 volumes.

Mr. Blaine's contribution to the history or his own time is unquestionably to be counted among the works of permanent value.

BOWMAN, Colonel S. M., and Lieutenant Colonel R. B. IRWIN. Sherman and his campaigns: a military biography. New York: C. B. Richardson. 1865.

BOYNTON, CHARLES B. History of the navy during the Rebellion. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1868. 2 volumes.

CAMPAIGNS OF THE CIVIL WAR. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 1881-8. 13 volumes.

1. The outbreak of rebellion; by J. G. Nicolay. 2. From Fort Henry to Corinth; by M. F. Force. 3. The Peninsula: McClellan's campaign of 1862; by Alexander S. Webb. 4. The Army under Pope; by J. C. Ropes. 5. The Antietam and Fredericksburg; by F. W. Palfrey. 6. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; by Abner Doubleday. 7. The Army of the Cumberland; by Henry M. Cist. 8. The Mississippi; by F. V. Greene 9. Atlanta; by Jacob D. Cox 10. The March to the Sea; by Jacob D. Cox. 11. The Shenandoah Valley in 1864; by George E. Pond. 12. The Virginia campaign of '61 and '65; by A. A. Humphreys. (Supplementary volume) Statistical record of the armies of the United States.

CHAMPLIN, JOHN D., JR. Young folks' history of the War for the Union. New York: H. Holt & Co.

COFFIN, CHARLES CARLETON. The drum-beat of the nation. New York: Harper & Bros. 1888.

Marching to victory. New York: Harper & Bros. 1889.

Redeeming the Republic. New York: Harper & Bros. 1890.

Freedom triumphant. New York: Harper & Bros. 1891.

The first of the four books last named narrates the history of the Civil War to the close of 1862; the second relates the events of 1863, the third those of 1864, and the fourth to the end of the war. They are great favorites among young readers.

The boys of '61, or four years of fighting; personal observation with the army and navy. Boston: Estes & Lauriat. 1831.

COOKE, JOHN ESTEN. Stonewall Jackson; a military biography. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1876.

DAVIS, JEFFERSON. The rise and fall of the Confederate Government. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1881. 2 volumes.

DODGE, THEODORE A. A bird's-eye view of our Civil War. Boston: Osgood & Co. 1888.

DOUBLEDAY, A. Gettysburg made plain. New York: Century Co. 1888.

DRAPER, JOHN W. History of the American Civil War. New York: Harper & Bros. 1867. 3 volumes.

FAMOUS ADVENTURES AND PRISON ESCAPES OF THE CIVIL WAR. New York: Century Co. 1893.

FARRAGUT, LOYALL. Life of David Glasgow Farragut. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1879.

GIDDINGS, JOSHUA R. History of the Rebellion, its authors and causes. New York: Follett, Foster & Co. 1864.

Really a Congressional history of the years preceding the Rebellion.

GORDON, GEORGE H. History of the campaigns of the Army of Virginia under John Pope, 1862. Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co. 1880.

GRANT, ULYSSES S. Personal memoirs. New York: C. L. Webster & Co. 1885-6. 2 volumes.

"Nine-tenths of the value of autobiography is in the revelation of the writer himself to the world. This book is no exception to the rule. The history of his campaigns may be got elsewhere. Badeau's book is more full and has scarcely less of Grant's authority, for he revised its statements and certified that it contained his views. … It is, then, for the new light which they throw upon Grant himself that these memoirs will be prized. His personality was too strong to be hidden. When he took his pen to tell the story of his career, the things which flowed most easily from his mind were the judgments and opinions of men and of events in the gross and not the detailed incidents which the experienced writer would use to fill and color his narrative. … As to his style, it has the principal element of thoroughly good writing, since we are made to feel that the writer's only thought, in this regard, is how to express most directly and simply the thing he has to say." J. D. Cox, Review (Nation, February 25. 1886).

GREELEY, HORACE. The American conflict: a history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, its causes, incidents and results. Hartford: O. D. Case & Co. 1867. 2 volumes.

A hurried and careless piece of work: poor in style and quite unworthy of the eminent journalist who produced it, but valuable as a document representing the views and feelings of the time.

HALE, EDWARD E., editor. Stories of war, told by soldiers. Boston: Roberts Bros. 1879.

HARRIS, T. M. The assassination of Lincoln: a history of the great conspiracy, trial of the conspirators by a military commission, and a review of the trial of John H. Surratt; by a member of the commission. Boston: American Citizen Co. 1892.

HIGGINSON, THOMAS W. Army life in a black regiment. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co. 1870.

HUGHES, ROBERT M. General [Joseph E.] Johnston. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1893.

HUMPHREYS, ANDREW A. From Gettysburg to the Rapidan: the Army of the Potomac, July, 1863, to April, 1864. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 1888.

IRWIN, RICHARD B. History of the Nineteenth Army Corps. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1892.

JOHNSON, ROSSITER. Short history of the War of Secession. Boston: Ticknor & Co. 1888.

KIEFFER, HARRY M. Recollections of a drummer-boy. 7th edition revised and enlarged. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1890.

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Complete works; comprising his speeches, letters, state papers, and miscellaneous writings; edited by John G. Nicolay and John Hay. New York: Century Co. 1894.

LIVERMORE, MARY A. My story of the War: a woman's narrative of experience as nurse in the Union Army. Hartford: A. D. Worthington & Co. 1868.

LONG, A. L. Memoirs of Robert E. Lee. New York: Stoddard & Co. 1886.

McCLELLAN, GEORGE B. McClellan's own story: the war for the Union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to it and to them. New York: C. L. Webster & Co. 1887.

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MAHAN, Captain A. T. Admiral Farragut. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1892.

McPHERSON, EDWARD. Political history of the United States during the great Rebellion. Washington: Philip & Solomon. 1865.

A valuable collection of state papers, Congressional enactments and other documents of the Rebellion history.

MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. Papers read, 1876-&1. Boston: 1881-86. 2 volumes.