Public opinion and the teaching of history in the United States

by Bessie Louise Pierce

[415] The United States Telegraph, October 5, 1836, in which appeared Duff Green’s prospectus for the American Literary Company, which was to have a capital of $500,000 to print the Telegraph, manufacture paper, publish books, prepare a new series of elementary school textbooks, elevate the general standing of literature, and “render the South independent of Northern fanatics.”

[416] De Bow’s Review, Vol. XVIII (1855), pp. 660-661.

[417] De Bow’s Review, Vol. XXVIII (1860), p. 435 et seq.

[418] “Southern School Books,” De Bow’s Review, Vol. XIII (1852), pp. 258-266.

[419] Ibid., p. 265.

[420] Ibid., Vol. XV (1853), p. 268.

[421] Ibid., Vol. XVII (1854), p. 508.

[422] Ibid.

[423] Ibid., Vol. XXI (1856), p. 553.

[424] Ibid., Vol. XXII (1857), p. 104. Committee was composed of J. D. S. De Bow, of Louisiana; H. Gourdin, of South Carolina; and D. McRae, of North Carolina.