The magazine of history with notes and queries (Vol. I, No. 2)

PORTRAITS—Lorenzo Dow Thompson, Jonathan Moore _Frontispiece_ SOME POPULAR MYTHS OF AMERICAN HISTORY THOMAS ADDIS EMMET, M.D. 61 ILLUSTRATIONS: Account of Negro School-House Cos...

This letter, however, does not appear in Sparks’ work, who states in a foot-note that very few of the letters to Lund Washington existed. If this statement is true, it is possib...

For some time I have endeavoured to make an annual visit to Fort Ticonderoga and its neighborhood. September, October and November, before the ground freezes, when the lake is u...

But having meted out the blame that of right belonged to the “low-country” in this matter, justice demands the statement that—as in all family disputes—the provocation was by no...

As a rule the Indian depended on corn and beans to support him during his long excursions, whether in peace or war. In the account of the capture of the Hall girls, which occurr...

“Congress does not seize hard upon me ... much gab, great fear of public opinion; plenty of low business talent, but no masterful man in Congress (probably best so)—I THINK WELL...

These two incidents were, first: the month-late start of the expedition, because of which the terrible flood in the Dead River, with the resultant hardships, was encountered by...