PREFACE
Allied Nations in the War.
Alsace-Lorraine.
Americans Not An English People.
Americans Saved from Mexican Mob at Tampico by German Cruiser "Dresden.
Armstadt, Major George.
American School Children and Foreign Propaganda.
American School Children and English Propaganda.
Astor, John Jacob.
Titled Americans.
Atrocities.
Bancroft, George Treaty with Germany Vancouver Boundary Line.
Baralong.
Berliner, Emile.
The Boers England's Record of Infamy.
"Illegal, Ineffective and Indefensible Blockades."
Brest-Litovsk Treaty.
"Bombing Maternity Hospitals."
Creel and the "Sisson Documents."
Cromberger, Johann.
Custer, General George A.
Cavell, Edith.
Concord Society, The.
Christiansen, Hendrick.
DeKalb.
Declaration of Independence.
Dorsheimer, Hon. William.
Dutch and German.
Dual Citizenship.
Earling, Albert J.
Eckert, Thomas.
Eliot, Prof. Charles W.
England Plundered American Commerce in Our Civil War.
English Tribute to Germany's Lofty Spirit.
Election of 1916 and the League of Nations Covenant.
English Opinion of Prussians in 1813-15.
Espionage Act, Vote on.
Exports and Imports to and from the Belligerent Countries, 1914.
Under the Espionage Act A Chapter of Persecution.
England Threatens the United States.
France's Friendship for the United States.
Benjamin Franklin.
Frederick the Great and the American Colonies.
The "Fourteen Points."
Fritchie, Barbara.
First Germans in Virginia.
First German Newspapers.
German Americans in Art, Science and Literature.
German-American Captains of Industry.
The German American Vote.
The German Element in American Life.
Germany and England During the Civil War.
Germans in Civil War.
Germans in the Confederate Army.
Germantown Settlement.
Why Germany Strengthened Her Army, Told by Asquith.
Hagner, Peter.
Hartford Convention, The.
Hempel.
New York Herald Urges Hanging of German Americans.
Hereshoffs and Cramps.
Herkimer, General Nicholas.
The Hessians.
Hillegas, Michael.
House, Col. E. M.
The Humanity of War.
Illiteracy.
Immigration.
Indians, Tories and the German Settlements.
Inventions.
English View of Paul Jones.
Jefferson on English Hyphenates and English Perfidy.
Jefferson's Tribute to German Immigration.
Kultur" in Brief Statistical Form.
Knobel, Caspar.
Know Nothing or American Party.
Koerner, Gustav.
Kudlich, Dr. Hans, the Peasant Emancipator.
Langlotz, Prof. C. A.
Lehman, Philip Theodore.
Lehmann, Frederick William.
Leisler, Jacob.
Lieber, Francis.
Light Horse Harry Lee.
Lincoln of German Descent.
Leutze, Eugene Henry Cozzens.
Long, Francis L.
Ludwig, Christian.
Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
Ideals of Liberty.
Marix, Adolph.
Massachusetts Bay Colony Contained Germans.
Massow, Baron Von.
McNeill, Walter S.
Memminger, Christoph Gustav.
Mergenthaler, Ottmar.
Military Establishments of Warring Nations.
Minuit, or Minnewit, Peter.
Morgan, J. Pierpont.
Missouri, How Kept in the Union.
Muhlenberg, Frederick August.
Muhlenberg, Heinrich Melchior.
Muhlenberg, Johann Gabriel Peter.
Nagel, Charles.
Nast, Thomas.
National Security League.
Neutrality "The Best Practices of Nations."
New Ulm Massacre.
Lord Northcliffe Controls American Papers.
Osterhaus, Peter Joseph.
Palatine Declaration of Independence.
Franz Daniel Pastorius and German, Dutch and English Colonization.
Propaganda in the United States.
Pitcher, Molly.
Press Attacks in Congress.
Pathfinders.
Poison Gas.
Penn, William.
Pilgrim Society.
Quitman, Johan Anton.
Representation in Congress, 1779-1912.
Rhodes' Secret Will and Scholarships, Carnegie Peace Fund and Other Pan-Anglican Influences.
Ringling, Al.
Rittenhouse, David.
Roebling, John August.
Rassieur, Leo.
Roosevelt, Col. Theodore.
Roosevelt and Taft Praise the Kaiser as an Agent of Peace.
Scraps of Paper.
Schleswig-Holstein.
Submarine Sinkings of Enemy Merchant Ships.
Schurz, Carl.
Scheffauer, Herman George.
Schell, Johann Christian and His Wife.
Schley, Winfield Scott.
Steinmetz, Charles P.
Sauer, Christopher.
Starving Germany.
Steuben, Baron Frederick William von.
Sulphur King, Herman Frasch.
Sutter, the Romance of the California Pioneer.
"Swordmaker of the Confederacy."
Tolstoy on American Liberty.
Commercial Treaty with Germany and How it Was Observed.
Villard, Henry.
Vote on War in Congress.
War of 1870-71.
War Lies Repudiated by British Press.
Washington's Bodyguard.
Washington's Tribute.
Weiser, Conrad.
Wetzel, Lou.
Wirt, William.
Wirtz, Captain H., of Andersonville Prison.
Wistar, Caspar.
Zane, Elizabeth.
Ziegler, David, Revolutionary Soldier and Indian Fighter.
Zenger, John Peter, and the Freedom of the Press.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Transcriber's Notes
Transcriber’s Notes
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Punctuation has been standardized.
In the main text, several of the topics are not listed in alphabetical order. These have been left as printed.
In the concluding Table of Contents, the alphabetical order of topics has been corrected, but no topics omitted by the author have been added.
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COPYRIGHT BY
FREDERICK FRANKLIN SCHRADER
1920
PUBLISHED BY
CONCORD PUBLISHING COMPANY
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NEW YORK, U. S. A.
“1683-1920”
The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How it Worked—“Illegal and Indefensible Blockade” of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—Germantown Settlement of 1683
And a Thousand Other Topics
by
Frederick Franklin Schrader
Former Secretary Republican Congressional Committee
and Author “Republican Campaign Text Book, 1898.”