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The Middle Group of
American Historians
Cloth, 12mo, $2.00
Back in the middle of the last century there was a greater demand for history than today, when there are more historians. Sparks, Bancroft, Prescott and Motley as well as Col. Peter Force, the compiler, brought to their work a patriotic fervour touched with literary genius which made their histories works of literature and themselves distinguished figures in a distinguished past. It is of them and their conception of the historical tradition that Prof. Bassett writes, linking their lives to what they lived to make—the history of their country’s early days.
Because a new conception of the study of history has come into being in recent years, and we now have the product of research in endless archives replacing the fervent eloquence of the nineteenth century historians, Professor Bassett’s book will be welcome as an appreciative study of a worthy fragment of our national growth, a history of history.
A Short History of the United States
By JOHN SPENCER BASSETT, Ph.D.
With maps, 8vo, $2.50