Barnes Popular History, of the United States of America, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Barnes Popular History, of the United States of America, Vol. 1 The year 1904, bringing as it does the celebration of the great expansion of our country involved in the Louisiana Purchase, is an obviously opportune time for presenting a new and revised edition of this standard History of the United States designed for popular reading. Barnes' History has been found to fill a want not supplied by brief, didactic text-books on the one hand, or, on the other by cumbersome and expensive sets of volumes, which, moreover, have in many cases treated only of special periods. In this History there is told in convenient form the story of our country from the prehistoric America of the Mound Builders to the treaty with Panama, the preparations for the long delayed Isthmian canal and the launching of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis. It is a narrative full of human interest as well as instruction, proving again that history may offer attractions more inviting than those of fiction. At this time particularly there is an impatience with the purely critical treatment of historical themes. Certain of our broader minded historians have themselves complained that research has killed imagination and the critical spirit has smothered the human interest which a history should have if it is to convey a picture of life. Such an interest pervades the pages of Barnes' History. It affords a convenient, accessible and easily read story of our country's evolution, and in these crowded and strenuous days this new edition will, it is believed, be found to have a usefulness and value immediate and universal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.