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| I. | History | 1 |
| President’s Inaugural Address, American Historical Association, Boston, December 27, 1899; printed in the Atlantic Monthly of February, 1900. |
| II. | Concerning the Writing of History | 25 |
| Address delivered at the Meeting of the American Historical Association in Detroit, December, 1900. |
| III. | The Profession of Historian | 47 |
| Lecture read before the History Club of Harvard University, April 27, 1908, and at Yale, Columbia, and Western Reserve Universities. |
| IV. | Newspapers as Historical Sources | 81 |
| A Paper read before the American Historical Association in Washington on December 29, 1908; printed in the Atlantic Monthly of May, 1909. |
| V. | Speech prepared for the Commencement Dinner at Harvard University, June 26, 1901. (Not delivered) | 99 |
| VI. | Edward Gibbon | 105 |
| Lecture read at Harvard University, April 6, 1908, and printed in Scribner’s Magazine of June, 1909. |
| VII. | Samuel Rawson Gardiner | 141 |
| A Paper read before the Massachusetts Historical Society at the March Meeting of 1902, and printed in the Atlantic Monthly of May, 1902. |
| VIII. | William E.H. Lecky | 151 |
| A Paper read before the Massachusetts Historical Society at the November Meeting of 1903. |
| IX. | Sir Spencer Walpole | 159 |
| A Paper read before the Massachusetts Historical Society at the November Meeting of 1907. |
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X. | John Richard Green | 169 |
| Address at a Gathering of Historians on June 5, 1909, to mark the Placing of a Tablet in the Inner Quadrangle of Jesus College, Oxford, to the Memory of John Richard Green. |
| XI. | Edward L. Pierce | 175 |
| A Paper read before the Massachusetts Historical Society at the October Meeting of 1897. |
| XII. | Jacob D. Cox | 183 |
| A Paper read before the Massachusetts Historical Society at the October Meeting of 1900. |
| XIII. | Edward Gaylord Bourne | 189 |
| A Paper read before the Massachusetts Historical Society at the March Meeting of 1908. |
| XIV. | The Presidential Office | 201 |
| An Essay printed in Scribner’s Magazine of February, 1903. |
| XV. | A Review of President Hayes’s Administration | 243 |
| Address delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, on October 8, 1908; printed in the Century Magazine for October, 1909. |
| XVI. | Edwin Lawrence Godkin | 265 |
| Lecture read at Harvard University, April 13, 1908; printed in the Atlantic Monthly for September, 1908. |
| XVII. | Who Burned Columbia? | 299 |
| A Paper read before the Massachusetts Historical Society at the November Meeting of 1901, and printed in the American Historical Review of April, 1902. |
| XVIII. | A New Estimate of Cromwell | 315 |
| A Paper read before the Massachusetts Historical Society at the January Meeting of 1898, and printed in the Atlantic Monthly of June, 1898. |
| Index | | 325 |
