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The Memorial Story of America : comprisisng the important events, episodes, and incidents which make up the record of four hundred years from Columbus to the Present Time / by Hamilton W. Mabie, LLD., Lit. D., editor of "The Outlook," N.Y., "The Makers of America" series, etc. ; with special chapters written for this book by Hon. John Sherman and Hon. J. K. Upton, U. S. Senator Henry L. Dawes, Bishop John H. Vincent, Miss Frances E. Willard, Col. A. K. McClure, Hon. Wm. C. Breckinridge, Prof. Francis N. Thorpe, Ph.D., Prof. T. S. Doolittle, LL.D., Albert Shaw, LL.D., and others.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States--Economic conditions.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- [2], xxvii, [1], 21-851, [3] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- Authors Edition
- Other Title:
- Story of America
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : John C. Winston & Co., 1895.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Hamilton W. Mabie, Marshal H. Bright
- Finding the New Country
- Post-Columbian Explorers and Discoverers
- Settling the New Country
- Making the New People
- Old Colony Days and Ways
- Story of the Buccaneers and Pirates
- Cutting Loose from Europe
- The War for Independence
- Struggle for Liberty and Government / Francis Newton Thorpe, Ph.D., Professor of School of American History and Institutions, University of Pennsylvania
- Pathfinders and Pioneers
- Pushing Back the Boundaries
- The Second War for Independence, or The War of 1812
- The Story of the Indian
- The Indian of the Nineteenth Century / Hon. Henry L. Dawes, Chairman Committee of Indian Affairs, U.S. Senate
- Story of the Negro
- The Story of the Civil War
- Some Forgotten Lessons of the War / Alexander K. McClure, Editor and Proprietor of the Philadelphia Times
- Our Flag at Sea
- Difficulties with Foreign Powers
- Arctic Adventurers
- Religion Under New Conditions
- The People Under New Conditions
- Gold and Silver Mining
- The Problem of Our National Currency / Hon. John Sherman, Its History and Evolution / J. K. Upton
- School, College, and University / Professor T. S. Doolittle, D.D., LL.D., Vice-President Rutgers College
- The Farmer and His Farm
- Some Great American Industries
- Great Inventions and Their Inventors
- The Saving of Life
- From Cave to Palace
- Trapping and Hunting
- Hunting and Fishing
- Our American Literature
- Newspapers and Journalism
- How We Govern Ourselves
- Our Presidents
- Travel in Old Times and New
- Manufacturing and Milling
- Our American Railroads
- Life on the Frontier
- World's Fairs
- The Metropolitan City
- The New England Capital
- The City of American Independence
- The City of the World's Fair
- The Northwest / Albert Shaw, LL.D., Editor of Review of Reviews
- The Old South and the New / Hon W. C. P. Breckinridge, Member of Congress from Kentucky
- Women in America / MIss Frances E. Willard, President of the World's W.C.T.U.
- The American Church / Bishop J. H. Vincent, LL.D., Chancellor of the Chautauqua University
- The Outlook / Hamilton W. Mabie.
- Notes:
- Edition statement from cover.
- Title page printed in red and black.
- "With Over 350 Illustrations Mostly by Noted American Artists"--Title page.
- "Every chapter in this volume being original matter prepared expressly for this work, all persons are warned not to infringe upon our copyright by using either the matter or the pictures, without express permission."--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- E178.M13 1895: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by the Gerald Weales Estate has teal cloth boards decorated and stamped in black with gold title label on front cover. Autograph of Herald? Clifford Weales on front pastedown. Front cover, front free endpaper and preliminary page detached from text.
- OCLC:
- 1594046823
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