Category: History - American
The author wishes to acknowledge the great assistance he has received from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, of which he has been a member for twenty-eight years,--whose library consisting of biographies and genealogies is the most complete in America. Other autho...
THE ADDRESSES TO GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON. THE CONSPIRACY ACT; AND RESOLUTION, RELATING TO THE BANISHING AND CONFISCATION OF THE ESTATES OF THE ABSENTEES, AND REFUGEES, AND A LIST OF...
11. CHAPTER VI.The American Revolution, like most other revolutions, was the work of an energetic minority who succeeded in committing an undecided and fluctuating majority to courses for whic...
9. CHAPTER IV.After the adoption in Massachusetts of Patrick Henry's resolves, the people, brooding over the injuries which Adams made them believe they were receiving under the Stamp Act, be...
10. CHAPTER V.At the outbreak of the American rebellion the great majority of men in the colonies could be regarded as indifferent, ready to stampede and rush along with the successful party....
8. CHAPTER III.One of the principal causes that led to the American Revolution was the question of what was lawful under the constitution of the British empire, and what was expedient under th...
7. CHAPTER II.Charles II. died Feb. 6th, 1685, and was succeeded by his brother, James II. News of this was brought to Boston by private letter, but no official notification was made to the g...
14. CHAPTER IX.When the Revolutionary War had ended came the long twenty-three years' war in which Great Britain, for the most part, single-handed, fought for the freedom of Europe against the...
6. CHAPTER I.A nation's own experience should be its best political guide, but it is not certain that as a people we have improved by all the teachings of our own history, for the reason tha...
16. CHAPTER XI.It is well known and now acknowledged that for the past hundred years it has been the deliberate and well considered policy of the United States to eradicate everything British...
15. CHAPTER X.For the first fifty years after the Revolution, the wealthy aristocratic slave-holding Southern states governed the Union and controlled its destiny. The acquisition of Florida...
13. CHAPTER VIII.The Moors were well treated when banished from Spain; the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes was civil death to all Huguenots; the Americans made the treaty of peace of 1783 wors...
5. PART IIThe author wishes to acknowledge the great assistance he has received from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, of which he has been a member for twenty-eight years,--...
12. CHAPTER VII.The writers of American histories severely condemn the British government for employing Indians in the war of the Revolution as well as in 1812, and give unstinted praise to the...
4. CHAPTER XI3. CHAPTER X1. CHAPTER VIII2. CHAPTER IX