The Westward Movement in American History

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Excerpt from The Westward Movement in American History: Syllabus of a Course of Twelve Lectures So great is the number and complexity of the printed works on American History, that some preliminary classification of the more important in regard to both scope and period seems necessary. No attempt will be made here to estimate critically all of the important works dealing with a part or the whole period of American History from the first discoveries to the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, but it seems worth while to give some indication of those books which are at the same time useful and accessible. Two useful guides to the bibliography of American History are first of all, Channing Hart's "Guide to American History, " (Boston, 1897. Ginn & Co.), and C.K. Adams "Manual of Historical Literature, " (N.Y., 1882. Harper). The last mentioned work is of uneven merit and now somewhat out of date, but the Channing Hart "Guide, " though without critical estimate of the great majority of the works referred to, contains admirably selected bibliographies, both general and special. General Histories. - No historical scholar of reputation has written a complete general history of the United States covering the entire period. The "Cyclopedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the 1 United States, " edited by John J. Lalor (Chicago, 1881 1884), is a comprehensive work, in three volumes, and contains some. extremely valuable articles by Alexander Johnston. A large cooperative work, and like all such efforts suffering from inequalities of merit among the contributors, was completed in 1889 under the editorship of Justin Winsor, the Librarian of Harvard. 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.