[p v ] PREFACE

[p vii ] CONTENTS

[p ix ] HISTORY

HISTORY 1

[p 25 ] CONCERNING THE WRITING OF HISTORY

[p 27 ] CONCERNING THE WRITING OF HISTORY

[p 47 ] THE PROFESSION OF HISTORIAN

[p 49 ] THE PROFESSION OF HISTORIAN

[p 81 ] NEWSPAPERS AS HISTORICAL SOURCES

[p 83 ] NEWSPAPERS AS HISTORICAL SOURCES

[p 99 ] SPEECH PREPARED FOR THE COMMENCEMENT DINNER AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

[p 101 ] SPEECH PREPARED FOR THE COMMENCEMENT DINNER AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

[p 105 ] EDWARD GIBBON

[p 107 ] EDWARD GIBBON

[p 141 ] SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER

[p 143 ] SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER

[p 151 ] WILLIAM E. H. LECKY

[p 153 ] WILLIAM E. H. LECKY

[p 159 ] SIR SPENCER WALPOLE

[p 161 ] SIR SPENCER WALPOLE

[p 169 ] JOHN RICHARD GREEN

[p 171 ] JOHN RICHARD GREEN

[p 175 ] EDWARD L. PIERCE

[p 177 ] EDWARD L. PIERCE

[p 183 ] JACOB D. COX

[p 185 ] JACOB D. COX

[p 189 ] EDWARD GAYLORD BOURNE

[p 191 ] EDWARD GAYLORD BOURNE

[p 201 ] THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE

[p 203 ] THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE

[p 243 ] A REVIEW OF PRESIDENT HAYES'S ADMINISTRATION

[p 245 ] A REVIEW OF PRESIDENT HAYES'S ADMINISTRATION

[p 265 ] EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN

[p 267 ] EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN

[p 299 ] WHO BURNED COLUMBIA?

[p 301 ] WHO BURNED COLUMBIA?

[p 315 ] A NEW ESTIMATE OF CROMWELL

[p 317 ] A NEW ESTIMATE OF CROMWELL

[p 325 ] INDEX

AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 TO THE FINAL RESTORATION OF HOME RULE AT THE SOUTH IN 1877

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1909
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Copyright, 1909,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.