The American Nation, a History (Volume 23); From Original Sources by Associated Scholars

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1907. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX CRITICAL ESSAY ON AUTHORITIES BIBLIOGRAPHIES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL aids in the shape of reference lists and guides, so valuable for earlier periods of American history, are wanting for the decade assigned to this volume. J. N. Larned, Literature of American History (1902), contains under the title, American Development (Nos. 2687-2821), notes on occasional volumes bearing on this period; and the Library of Congress has issued lists on the Isthmian Canal, the Monroe Doctrine, TradesUnions, and other subjects. Brookings and Ringwalt, Briefs for Debate (1897), contains topics and references of value; as does Ringwalt, Briefs on Public Questions (1905). See also the Critical Essay at the end of J. H. Latan6, America the World Power {Am. Nation, XXV.). GENERAL SECONDARY WORKS None of the standard historians covers the field of this volume. James Ford Rhodes closes his admirable History of the United States with the contested election of 1876. E. Benjamin Andrews, History of the Last Quarter-Century of the United States, 1870-1895 (2 vols., 1896), enlarged by added chapters to The United States in Our Own Time (1903), covers in a popular way the entire period, although it is hastily written amid other duties, and omits industrial features. Among the popular histories covering this period may be mentioned Woodrow Wilson, History of the American People (s vols., 1902), and Edwin Erie Sparks, The United States of America (2 vols., 1904). Of the single volumes, the Cambridge Modem History, Vol. VII., The United States (1903), gives in chaps, xx.-xxii. a scholarly treatment of modern industrial and economic questions. Henry William Elson, History of the United States (1904), (somewhat enlarged edition, 5 vols., 1905), mentions the principal events of this period, alth...