INDEX
Adventure-Galley, The (ship), [170], [171], [172], [173]
Albany, name of Fort Orange changed to, [137]; refuses to send delegates to Fort James, [153]; preëminently Dutch, [154]; refuses to recognize Leisler, [154], [156]; Leisler sends troops to assistance of, [156]; congress (1754), [219], [220-21]; court-house, [220]; see also Orange, Fort
Alexander, James, supports Van Dam, [196]; contributes to New York Weekly Journal, [197]; counsel for Zenger, [198-99]
Amersfort, [77]
Amsterdam, Fort, established, [54]; condition in 1638, [61]; becomes Fort James, [137]; see also James, Fort
Andros, Sir Edmund, Governor of New York, [144]; asserts authority in New Jersey, [146-147]; recalled, [147]; appointed Governor-General of "Dominion of New England" (1688), [149]; imprisoned in Boston, [151]; instructed to suppress piracy, [167]
Angola, Paul d', one of the first negro slaves, [25]
Archer, John, [140]
Arlington, Lord, [139]
Arms of Amsterdam, The (ship), [26]
Avery, buccaneer, [173]
Barents, Reymier, [156]
Barentsen, Pieter, [54]
Bayard, Mrs., sister of Stuyvesant, [86]
Bayard, Nicholas, [154], [155], [159], [160], [163]
Bear Mountain, replica of Half Moon at foot of, [16]
Bears Island fortified, [45]
Beaver, The (ship), [161]
Beeren (Bears) Island fortified, [45]
Bellomont, Earl of, in stock company to fit out privateer, [170]; succeeds Fletcher as Governor of New York, [170-71], [180-181]; Captain Kidd communicates with, [174]; royal Governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, [175] (note); uprightness, [181]; espouses Leislerian cause, [181-83]; death (1701), [183]; revenues under, [191]
Berkeley, Lord, [145]
Beverwyck, [72]
Birds of Hudson region, [28]
Bissels, associate of Van Rensselaer, [40]
Blagge, Captain, defense of Leisler, [157-59]
Block, Adriaen, [135]
Blucker, of Albany, [156]
Bogardug, Rev. Everardus, [88-90]
Bradford, William, printer, [193]
Bradley supports Cosby, [196]
Brant, Molly, [223]
Breuckelen (now Brooklyn), [77]
Burnet, William, Governor of New York, [190]
Burton, Mary, [213]
Cabots, The, explorations in Hudson region, [16]
Canada, expeditions against, [185-86], [188]
Carey (Kerry), Peggy, [213]
Carleton, Sir Dudley, English ambassador at The Hague, [132]
Caroline, niece of Mohawk chief Hendrick, [223]
Carteret, Sir George, part of New Jersey granted to, [145]; death (1680), [146]
Carteret, Philip, Governor of New Jersey, [146], [147]
Casimir, Fort, [130]
Catholics, Roman, oppose Leisler, [153-154]; accused of inciting negro plots, [212], [213-17]
Chambers, John, [199]
Charter of Liberties and Privileges, [148]
Christina, Fort, [127]
Clarke, George, Governor of New York, letter on negro plots, [214-15]; suspicions of, [215-17]
Clinton, George, Governor of New York, quoted, [191-92], [219]
Coates, Edward, [166]
Cod, Cape, [135]
Colden, Cadwallader, [196], [197]
Colman, John, [6-7]
Colve, Captain Anthony, Dutch Governor of New York, [143]
Commerce, aim of Dutch in America, [18]; with Holland, [24]; dubious sea ventures, [168-169]
Congo, Simon, one of the first negro slaves, [25]
Connecticut River, [22], [65], [135]
Coorn, Nicholas, [45-46]
Cornbury, Edward Hyde, Lord, Governor of New York, [183-185]; revenues under, [191]
Cornelissen, Jan, [95]
Cosby, William, Governor of New York, [190], [194-96]
"Cosby's Manor," [195]
Curtius, Alexander Carolus, [101]
Cuyler, Johannes, of Albany, [156]
De Lancey, James, supports Cosby, [196]; Chief Justice, [199]; Lieutenant-Governor, [219]
De la Montagne, J. M., [95]
De la Noy, Peter, [162], [169]
Delaware, Swedish colony in, [127-28]; see also New Sweden
Delaware Bay, [36]
Delaware (or South) River, [22], [51], [59]
De Neger, Jan, [35]
De Peyster, Colonel Abraham, [207]
De Vries, Captain David, quoted, [28]; takes up territory on Delaware Bay, [36]; bouwerie of, [39]; opinion of Van Twilier, [57]; head of committee of twelve, [64]; appearance, [64]; treats with Indians, [65-66]; account of building of church, [92-93]; visits Governor Printz, [129]; opinion of Eelkens incident, [134]
Dongan, Colonel Thomas, Governor of New York, [48], [147], [157]; instructed to suppress piracy, [167]
Drisius, Domine Samuel, [86]
"Duke's Laws," [138]
Dutch East India Company, [17]
Dutch West India Company, [20-22], [30], [32], [33-34], [38], [51], [56], [60], [73]
Dyckman, [72]
Earle, Mrs., overhears negroes plotting, [212]
East Indies, pirates in, [168]
Education in New Netherland, [93-101]
Eelkens, Jacob, [59], [132-35]
Eendragt, The (ship), [40]
Elizabethtown declared a free port, [146]
England, war with Holland (1652), [76-77]; treaty (1654), [77]; sends fleet to New Netherland, [79-82]; war with Holland (1672), [142-43]; treaty (1674), [143-44]; takes steps against buccaneers, [170]
Esopus, Indian troubles at, [74], [79]
Evertsen, Admiral Cornells, [143]
Fenwick, land claimant in West Jersey, [146]
Flatbush, [77]
Fletcher, Colonel Benjamin, Governor of New York, [165]; encourages piracy, [165-66]; revenues under, [191]
Flushing, [77]; religious toleration in, [86]
Food resources, [28]
Fordham Manor, [140]
Fortune, The (ship), [18]
Francisco, John, one of the first negro slaves, [25]
Franklin, Benjamin, at Albany congress, [220]
Frederycke (Fredericksen), Kryn, [54]
Fur trade, [17], [18-19], [27], [41]
Gardiner's Island, Captain Kidd at, [174]
Good Hope, The (ship), [45-46]
Governor's Island, [60]
Grant, Mrs., of Laggan, Memoirs of an American Lady, [48]; on negro servitude in Albany, [209]; describes Albany, [219-220]
Gravesend, [77]
Griffin, The (ship), [127]
Griffis, W. E., defends Van Twiller, [58-59]
Gustavus Adolphus, [126]
Half Moon, The (Halve Maene) (ship), anchors in New York harbor, [1-2]; description of, [2-5]; effect on Indians, [4-5], [7-10]; journeys up Hudson, [10-12]; homeward course, [13]; Hudson's cabin, [14]; puts to sea, [15]; replica, [16]
Hamilton, Andrew, defends Zenger, [200-05]
Harrison, Francis, [196], [198]
Hartford, Treaty of, [77]
Heckwelder, Rev. John, Moravian missionary, account of arrival of Half Moon, [7-9], [10]
Hempstead, [77]
Heyn, Peter, [55]
Hill, Rowland, quoted, [114]
Hobocan Hackingh, [37]
Hoboken, [74]
Hodgson, Robert, [85]
Holland, see United Netherlands
Holmes, Sir Robert, [168]
Horsmanden, Judge, [217]
Housatonic River discovered, [135]
Hudson, Captain Henry, explores Hudson River in Half Moon, [1-16]; barters with Indians, [4-5], [10]; entertains Indians, [4-5], [8-10], [13-14]; at West Point, [10-11]; Irving's description of, [12]; fights with Indians, [15]; held at Dartmouth, [17]
Hudson River, explored, [1-16]; "the River of the Steep Hills," [11]; called Mauritius, [22], [23], [29], [132]; commerce on, [28-29]; overflows, [79]; pirates on, [180]
Hughson, tavern-keeper, [213], [215-16]
Hunter, Robert, Governor of New York, [186]; brings Palatines to New York, [186-88]; resigns, [189]; quoted, [191]
Hutchiuson, Anne, [65]
Huyck, Jan, [90]
Indians, effect of Half Moon on, [4-5], [7-10]; attack Colman, [6]; friendly at West Point, [10]; on Half Moon, [13]; attempt theft, [14-15]; conflict with, [15], [62-66], [74-75]; legal ceremony toward, [36]; paid for lands, [37-38], [53]; servants of Minuit kill friendly Indian, [55]; Kieft's troubles with, [62-66]; attack New Amsterdam, [74]; as neighbors of Dutch, [124-26]; treaty signed on Norman's Kill, [125]; friendship of the "Six Nations," [218]; take warpath, [219]; Sir William Johnson as friend of, [226-27]
Ingoldesby, Major Richard, [161], [185-86]
Irving, Washington, see Knickerbocker, Diedrich
James, Duke of York and Albany, Lord Proprietor of New York, [137], [144-45]; becomes King of England, [148]
James, Fort, [137], [143], [153]; see also Amsterdam, Fort; Willem Hendrick, Fort
Jogues, Isaac, Jesuit missionary, describes Rensselaerswyck, [40-41]
Johnson, Sir William, at Albany congress, [220]; formulates Indian policy, [221]; born in Ireland, [221]; described by his uncle, [221]; life, [222-24]; home, [224-25]; hospitality, [225-26]; in French and Indian War, [227]; knighted, [227]; appearance, [227-28]; activities, [228]; personal characteristics, [228-29]
Joris, Adriaen, [22]
Juet, Robert, of Limehouse, quoted, [2], [9]
Kalm, Peter, describes courthouse at Albany, [220]
Key of Kalmar, The (ship), [127]
Kidd, Captain William, [170-179]
Kieft, William, succeeds Van Twiller, [45]; as Governor of New Netherland, [61-67]; character, [61]; activities, [61-62]; relations with Indians, [62-66]; recalled (1647), [66]; drowned, [66]; Kuyter and Melyn against, [69]; upheld by Stuyvesant, [69]; opposed by Bogardus, [89-90]; raises money for church, [92-93]; letter to Minuit, [127-128]
Knickerbocker, Diedrich (Irving), description of Henry Hudson, [12]; description of Van Twiller, [58]; quoted, [121-122]
Knight, Sarah Kemble, quoted, [206-07]
Krol, Sebastian, [54], [56-57], [90]
Kuyter, Jochem Pietersen, [69]
Labor in New Netherland, [27]
Leisler, Jacob, [150]; calls convention at Fort James, [153]; appointed "Captain of the fort at New York...", [153]; Catholics and aristocracy oppose, [153-54]; temporary victory, [154-55]; assumes title of Lieutenant-Governor, [155]; demands recognition, [155-56]; calls convention to discuss defense, [156-57]; controversy about, [157-60]; refuses surrender of fort, [161-63]; finally yields, [163]; sentenced to death, [163-64]; attainder removed, [164]; Bellomont causes reburial, [181-82]
Little Fox, The (ship), [18]
Livingston, Robert, [48], [154], [155], [170], [186], [196]
Livingston Manor, [48]
Long Island, SO; Dutch on, [22]; English on, [78], [135-36]; becomes county of Yorkshire, [138]
Loockermans, Govert, [45-46]
Lovelace, Colonel Francis, succeeds Nicolls as Governor of New York, [139-40]; establishes first mail service, [140-42]
Lovelace, Lord, Governor of New York, [185]
Luyck, Ægidius, [101]
Maasen, Cornelis, [109]
Madagascar, meeting place for pirates and merchants, [168-169], [170]; Kidd reaches, [172]
Manhattan Island, [29]; Hudson leaves, [10]; settlers in, [22]; purchased from Indians, [25], [53]; reserved for Dutch West Indian Company, [33]; surrendered to England, [80-82]; life on, [103]
"Mannahattanik," [9]
Manors in New York, [32], [34-35], [47-49]
Mauritius, (Hudson) River, [22], [23], [29], [132]
Maverick, Samuel, [139]
May, Cornelis Jacobsen, of Hoorn, [22]; first Director-General of New Netherland, [51]
Meeuwken, The (ship), [52]
Megapolensis, Rev. Johannes, Jr., [40], [86], [87-88], [90], [109]
Michaelius, Domine Jonas, [26], [88], [96-97], [109]
Middleburgh, [77]
Milborne, Jacob, [155-56], [162], [163], [181-82]
Minuit, Peter, Director-General of New Netherland, [25], [52]; recalled (1632), [45], [56]; buys Manhattan Island, [53]; builds Fort Amsterdam, [54]; preparations for war, [55]; shipbuilding, [66]; enters service of Sweden, [56], [126-27]; establishes Swedish colony in Delaware, [127-28]
Montgomerie, John, Governor of New York, [195]
Moore, William, [172-73]
Morris, Lewis, Chief Justice, [196], [197]
Motley, J. L., quoted, [30-31], [99]
Moussart, associate of Van Rensselaer, [40]
Murray, John, [212]
Myndertsen, Myndert, [36]
Nanfan, John, Lieutenant-Governor of New York, [180]
Narragansett Bay, [135]
Nassau, Fort, [19]
Navesink Heights, Hudson passes, [1]
Neger, Jan de, [35]
Negroes, plot of 1712, [210-11]; alleged plots of 1741, [211-17]; see also Slavery
Netherlands, see United Netherlands
New Amsterdam, established (1626), [25], [54]; growth of, [29]; "staple right" established at, [61]; Indian troubles at, [62-66], [74]; municipal rights given to, [73]; in Stuyvesant's time, [75-76]; fortification of, [77]; church building in, [91-93]; in seventeenth century, [102], [103]; development of, [104-06]; class distinction in, [107-08] (note); becomes New York, [137]; see also New York City
New Castle (Del.), [130]
New Gottenburg, [129]
New Jersey, [65]; granted to Berkeley and Carteret, [145-46]; enters "the Dominion of New England," [149]
New Netherland, Dutch claim, [17]; commerce, [18-19]; New Netherland Company, [19-20]; Dutch West India Company, [20-22], [30], [32], [33-34]; colonization, [21-23]; settlers, [23-24]; supplies from Holland, [24-25]; slavery, [25-27]; resources, [28]; patroonship, [32-47]; "Privileges and Exemptions," [33-35]; English take possession of (1664), [47]; small proprietors in, [49-50]; demands made to States General, [72-73]; convention to consider defense, [77-79]; The Humble Remonstrance, [78]; becomes New York, [82]; religion in, [83-93]; religious liberty in, [83-85]; religious tyranny, [85-87]; education, [93-101]; burghers in, [102-22]; pioneer living conditions, [103-04]; fire protection, [104-05]; public sanitation, [105]; improvement in living conditions, [105-06]; "great burghers," [107-08]; dress, [108]; children, [109-20]; holidays, [114-18]; christenings, [118]; spirit of mystery, [120-21]; neighbors, [123] et seq.; relations with New Sweden, [128-31]; relations with English, [131-36]; question of boundaries, [136]; bibliography, [231-33]; see also New York
New Netherland, The (ship), [56]
New Netherland Company, [19-20]
New Netherland, The Representation of, [68], [70]
New Orange, [143]
New Sweden, established, [127-128]; relations with Dutch, [128-131]
New York, government changed, [137-38]; surrenders to Dutch (1674), [143]; name changed to New Orange, [143]; returned by treaty to English, [144]; Charter of Liberties and Privileges, [148]; becomes royal province, [148]; enters "The Dominion of New England," [149]; piracy, [165-79]; see also New Netherland
New York City, market for pirates, [168]; becomes cosmopolitan, [206]; in 1729, [206-07]; public buildings, [207]; luxury, [207-08]; negro slaves, [208-17]; bibliography, [231-33]; see also New Amsterdam
New York Weekly Gazette, [197]
New York Weekly Journal, [197-198]
Nicholson, Francis, Lieutenant-Governor of New York, [151-152], [157]; leaves for England, [154]; imprisons pirates, [168]
Nicolls, Colonel Richard, expedition against New Netherland, [80-81]; first English Governor of New York, [137-138], [139], [144]; warns against division of territory, [145]
Nicolls, William, [159]
Nieu Nederlandt, The (ship), [22]
Nightingale, The (ship), [18]
Nooten (Nut) Island, old name for Governor's Island, [60]
Norman's Kill, treaty with Indians at, [125]
Nysen, Wolf, [35]
Olfertsen treats with Indians, [65]
Orange, Fort, [39]; established, [19]; colonists, [23], [25], [40]; supplies brought up Hudson to, [29]; in 1626, [54]; Stuyvesant's orders concerning, [71-72]; strengthened, [77]; town on Hudson, [102]; Eelkens lands near, [134]; becomes Albany, [137]; see also Albany
Oxenstiern conducts government of Sweden, [126]
Oxford, Earl of, [170]
Palatines in New York, [186-88]
Patroons, [32] et seq.
Philipse, Judge Adolphe, [196], [199]
Philipse, Frederick, [184]
Philipse Manor, [47]
Pietersen, Evert, [95]
Piracy, [165-79]
Portuguese, Anthony, one of the first negro slaves, [25]
Postal service established, [140-42]
Princess, The (ship), [66]
Printz, Johan, Governor of New Sweden, [128-29]
Quakers, pay Indians for land, [37-38]; Stuyvesant's dealings with, [70], [85-86]
Quedagh Merchant, The (ship), [172], [174], [177]
Raritan Indians, [63]
Religion in New Netherland, [83-93]
Rensselaer's Stein (Castle Rensselaer), [45]
Rensselaerswyck, typical patroonship, [39]; settlement, [39-41]; life in, [41-46]; library, [42]; cost of living, [42-43]; terms of leases, [43-44]; hostility between patroon and tenants, [44]; relation of patroon and Company, [45]; Stuyvesant and, [71-72]
Roelantsen, Adam, [94]
Romney, Earl of, [170]
Rondout, [102]
Rysing, Governor of New Sweden, [130]
St. John, The (slaver), [26]
San Salvador, victory of Dutch over Spanish off (1627), [55]
Schenectady, massacre at, [156]
Schoharie, Palatines at, [188]
Schuyler estate near Albany, [48-49]
Sewall, Samuel, [168]
Shipbuilding at New Amsterdam, [56]
Shrewsbury, Duke of, [170]
Slavery, Dutch introduce, [25-26]; treatment of slaves in New Netherland, [26-27]; in New York, [208-09]; ordinance regulating slaves (1684), [209-10]; see also Negroes
Sleepy Hollow, church at, [47-48]
Sloughter, Colonel Henry, Governor of New York, [160], [161], [162], [163], [165], [191]
Smith, William, [197], [198-99]
Smits, Claes, [63]
Somers, Lord Chancellor, [170]
Soutbergh, The (ship), [57]
South (now Delaware) River, [22], [51], [59]
Spain, truce with Holland, [17], [30]; plots against Holland, [30]; defeat by Holland, [55]
Spuyten Duyvil, [120]
Stanwix, Fort, Treaty of, [228]
"Staple right" at New Amsterdam, [61]
Staten Island, [36], [50], [63]; purchased by Pauw, [39]; transferred to Melyn, [39]; Indians attack, [74]; becomes part of Yorkshire, [138]; Dutch fleet off, [143]
Steenwyck, Cornelis, [139]
Stevensen, Jan, [95]
Stony Point, Half Moon becalmed at, [13]
Stuyvesant, [196]
Stuyvesant, Petrus (Pieter), made Director-General, [45]; appearance, [67]; as Director-General, [68]; upholds Kieft, [69]; arraigned by burghers, [69]; defense of, [69-70]; character of, [70-71]; contest with Van Slichtenhorst, [71-72]; arbitrariness, [72]; opposes local self-government, [72-73]; treatment of Indians, [74]; warns Company of lack of defense, [76]; treatment of Convention, [77-79]; begs for reinforcements, [79]; surrenders to English, [81-82]; religious tyranny under, [85-87]; builds Fort Casimir, [130]; tries to settle boundary disputes, [136]
Swannendael, [36]
Sweden, plans expedition to New World, [126]; entrance into Thirty Years' War, [126]; establishes colony in America, [127-28]
Tarrytown, [47]
Tew, Thomas, [166-67]
Thirty Years' War, [83], [126]
Tienpont, associate of May, [61]
Tiger, The (ship), [18]
Trevor, Captain of the William, [132]
Trinity Church founded, [165]
Ulster refuses to send delegates to Fort James, [153]
United Netherlands, gains foothold in America, [2], [17]; colonists from, [22-29]; relations with Spain, [30], [55]; character of people, [30-31]; relations with England, [76-77], [79-82]; takes possession of New York in 1674, [143]; see also New Netherland
Usselinx, William, [126]
Van Buren, A. H., cited, [23] (note)
Van Cortlandt, Stephanus, [154]
Van Cortlandt Manor, [47]
Van Curler, Arendt, [44]
Van Dam, Rip, [195-97]
Van der Donck, Adrian, [68], [72]; Representation, [68], [70]
Van Dyck, Hendrick, [74]
Van Hoboocken, Harmanus, [95]; Reverential Request, [100]
Van Rensselaer, Jan, [43]
Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen, system of patroonship suggested by, [32-33]; establishes Rensselaerswyck, [39-40]; born (1580), [59] (note)
Van Rensselaer, Maria, [59] (note)
Van Slichtenhorst, Brandt, [71]
Van Tienhoven, Cornelis, [69-70], [103]
Van Twiller, Wouter, Governor of New Netherland, [45], [56], [57-61]; nephew of Van Rensselaer, [45], [59] (note); De Vries's opinion of, [57]; Irving's description of, [58]; Griffis defends, [58-59]; birth, [59] (note); lavish expenditure of, [59-60]; Eelkens incident, [59], [132-35]; recalled, [60]
Van Wassenaer, Nicholas Janszoon, account of shipment of live stock, [24]; of colony under Minuit, [52-53]; of settlement of Fort Orange, [53-54]
Verhulst, William, Director-General of New Netherland (1625-1626), [51]
Verhulsten Island, [51]
Verrazano visits Hudson River region, [16]
Verstius (Vestens), William, [95]
Warren, Anne, mother of Sir William Johnson, [221]
Warren, Captain Peter, [221]
Warrensbush, [222]
Weckquaesgeecks, [55], [63-66]
Wendell, Captain, [156]
Westchester, New Englanders in, [138]; becomes part of Yorkshire, [138]
West Point, Hudson reaches, [10]
Willem Hendrick, Fort, [143]
William of Orange and Mary, sovereigns of England, [149] et seq.
William, The (ship), [132], [133], [134], [135]
Wiltwyck, [23]
Wisenberg, Catherine, wife of Sir William Johnson, [223]
Yorkshire, [138]
Zenger, John Peter, apprentice to Bradford, [193]; collects subscription for playing organ, [193-94]; publisher of New York Weekly Journal, [197]; arrested for libel, [198]; trial, [199-205]
AN OUTLINE OF THE PLAN OF
THE CHRONICLES OF AMERICA
The fifty titles of the Series fall into eight topical sequences or groups, each with a dominant theme of its own—
I. The Morning of America
TIME: 1492-1763
The theme of the first sequence is the struggle of nations for the possession of the New World. The mariners of four European kingdoms—Spain, Portugal, France, and England—are intent upon the discovery of a new route to Asia. They come upon the American continent which blocks the way. Spain plants colonies in the south, lured by gold. France, in pursuit of the fur trade, plants colonies in the north. Englishmen, in search of homes and of a wider freedom, occupy the Atlantic seaboard. These Englishmen come in time to need the land into which the French have penetrated by way of the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes, and a mighty struggle between the two nations takes place in the wilderness, ending in the expulsion of the French. This sequence comprises ten volumes:
1. THE RED MAN'S CONTINENT, by Ellsworth Huntington
2. THE SPANISH CONQUERORS, by Irving Berdine Richman
3. ELIZABETHAN SEA-DOGS, by William Wood
4. CRUSADERS OF NEW FRANCE, by William Bennett Munro
5. PIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTH, by Mary Johnston
6. THE FATHERS OF NEW ENGLAND, by Charles M. Andrews
7. DUTCH AND ENGLISH ON THE HUDSON, by Maud Wilder Goodwin
8. THE QUAKER COLONIES, by Sydney G. Fisher
9. COLONIAL FOLKWAYS, by Charles M. Andrews
10. THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE, by George M. Wrong
II. The Winning of Independence
TIME: 1763-1815
The French peril has passed, and the great territory between the Alleghanies and the Mississippi is now open to the Englishmen on the seaboard, with no enemy to contest their right of way except the Indian. But the question arises whether these Englishmen in the New World shall submit to political dictation from the King and Parliament of England. To decide this question the War of the Revolution is fought; the Union is born: and the second war with England follows. Seven volumes:
11. THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION, by Carl Becker
12. WASHINGTON AND HIS COMRADES IN ARMS, by George M. Wrong
13. THE FATHERS OF THE CONSTITUTION, by Max Farrand
14. WASHINGTON AND HIS COLLEAGUES, by Henry Jones Ford
15. JEFFERSON AND HIS COLLEAGUES, by Allen Johnson
16. JOHN MARSHALL AND THE CONSTITUTION, by Edward S. Corwin
17. THE FIGHT FOR A FREE SEA, by Ralph D. Paine
III. The Vision of the West
TIME: 1750-1890
The theme of the third sequence is the American frontier—the conquest of the continent from the Alleghanies to the Pacific Ocean. The story covers nearly a century and a half, from the first crossing of the Alleghanies by the backwoodsmen of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Carolinas (about 1750) to the heyday of the cowboy on the Great Plains in the latter part of the nineteenth century. This is the marvelous tale of the greatest migrations in history, told in nine volumes as follows:
18. PIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST, by Constance Lindsay Skinner
19. THE OLD NORTHWEST, by Frederic Austin Ogg
20. THE REIGN OF ANDREW JACKSON, by Frederic Austin Ogg
21. THE PATHS OF INLAND COMMERCE, by Archer B. Hulbert
22. ADVENTURERS OF OREGON, by Constance Lindsay Skinner
23. THE SPANISH BORDERLANDS, by Herbert E. Bolton
24. TEXAS AND THE MEXICAN WAR, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson
25. THE FORTY-NINERS, by Stewart Edward White
26. THE PASSING OF THE FRONTIER, by Emerson Hough
IV. The Storm of Secession
TIME: 1830-1876
The curtain rises on the gathering storm of secession. The theme of the fourth sequence is the preservation of the Union, which carries with it the extermination of slavery. Six volumes as follows:
27. THE COTTON KINGDOM, by William E. Dodd
28. THE ANTI-SLAVERY CRUSADE, by Jesse Macy
29. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE UNION, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson
30. THE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson
31. CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR, by William Wood
32. THE SEQUEL OF APPOMATTOX, by Walter Lynwood Fleming
V. The Intellectual Life
Two volumes follow on the higher national life, telling of the nation's great teachers and interpreters:
33. THE AMERICAN SPIRIT IN EDUCATION, by Edwin E. Slosson
34. THE AMERICAN SPIRIT IN LITERATURE, by Bliss Perry
VI. The Epic of Commerce and Industry
The sixth sequence is devoted to the romance of industry and business, and the dominant theme is the transformation caused by the inflow of immigrants and the development and utilization of mechanics on a great scale. The long age of muscular power has passed, and the era of mechanical power has brought with it a new kind of civilization. Eight volumes:
35. OUR FOREIGNERS, by Samuel P. Orth
36. THE OLD MERCHANT MARINE, by Ralph D. Paine
37. THE AGE OF INVENTION, by Holland Thompson
38. THE RAILROAD BUILDERS, by John Moody
39. THE AGE OF BIG BUSINESS, by Burton J. Hendrick
40. THE ARMIES OF LABOR, by Samuel P. Orth
41. THE MASTERS OF CAPITAL, by John Moody
42. THE NEW SOUTH, by Holland Thompson
VII. The Era of World Power
The seventh sequence carries on the story of government and diplomacy and political expansion from the Reconstruction (1876) to the present day, in six volumes:
43. THE BOSS AND THE MACHINE, by Samuel P. Orth
44. THE CLEVELAND ERA, by Henry Jones Ford
45. THE AGRARIAN CRUSADE, by Solon J. Buck
46. THE PATH OF EMPIRE, by Carl Russell Fish
47. THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND HIS TIMES, by Harold Howland
48. WOODROW WILSON AND THE WORLD WAR, by Charles Seymour
VIII. Our Neighbors
Now to round out the story of the continent, the Hispanic peoples on the south and the Canadians on the north are taken up where they were dropped further back in the Series, and these peoples are followed down to the present day:
49. THE CANADIAN DOMINION, by Oscar D. Skelton
50. THE HISPANIC NATIONS OF THE NEW WORLD, by William R. Shepherd
The Chronicles of America is thus a great synthesis, giving a new projection and a new interpretation of American History. These narratives are works of real scholarship, for every one is written after an exhaustive examination of the sources. Many of them contain new facts; some of them—such as those by Howland, Seymour, and Hough—are founded on intimate personal knowledge. But the originality of the Series lies, not chiefly in new facts, but rather in new ideas and new combinations of old facts.
The General Editor of the Series is Dr. Allen Johnson, Chairman of the Department of History of Yale University, and the entire work has been planned, prepared, and published under the control of the Council's Committee on Publications of Yale University.