Historical Essays is a collection of essays by the American historian James Ford Rhodes, known for his multivolume history of the United States from 1850 to 1877. The pieces reflect on American political and social history, especially the sectional conflict and Civil War era. They offer measured, well-informed historical perspective for listeners interested in nineteenth-century America.
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iiiHISTORICAL ESSAYS BY JAMES FORD RHODES, LL.D., D.LƗǵǵ. AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 TO THE FINAL RESTORATION OF HOME RULE AT THE SOUTH IN 1877 New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1909 All rights reserved iv Copyright, 1909, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published December, 1909.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.-Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
vPREFACE
Iƿ offering to the public this volume of Essays, all but two of which have been read at various places on different occasions, I am aware that there is some repetition in ideas and illustrations, but, as the dates of their delivery and previous publication are indicated, I am letting them stand substantially as they were written and delivered.
I am indebted to my son, Daniel P. Rhodes, for a literary revision of these Essays; and I have to thank the editors of the Atlantic Monthly, of
Scribner’s Magazine, and of the Century Magazine for leave to reprint the articles which have already appeared in their periodicals.
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