American History Leaflets.

COLONIAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL.

EDITED BY

ALBERT BUSHNELL HART and EDWARD CHANNING, Of Harvard University.

Price, per copy, 10 Cents.

These Leaflets are designed to promote the scientific method of studying history from its documents, and furnish in convenient form and at a moderate price copies of original documents that have become famous in our colonial and constitutional history as the outcome of some important crisis, or as exponents of the theories underlying our form of government. Each Leaflet contains a brief historical introduction and bibliography to aid further investigation by the student.

1.-The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel announcing his Discovery, with Extracts from his Journal.

2.-The Ostend Manifesto. 1854.

3.-Extracts from the Sagas describing the Voyages to Vinland.

4.-Extracts from Official Declarations of the United States embodying the Monroe Doctrine. 1789-1891.

5.-Documents illustrating the Territorial Development of the United States. 1763-1769.

6.-Extracts from official Papers relating to the Bering Sea Controversy. 1790-1892.

7.-The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England. 1643-1684.

8.-Exact Text of the Constitution of the United States. From the Original Manuscripts. 1787-1870.

9.-Documents describing the Voyage of John Cabot in 1497. 10.-Governor McDuffie's Message on the Slavery Question. 1835. 11.-Jefferson's Proposed Instructions to the Virginia Delegates, 1774, and the Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence, 1776. 12.-Ordinances of Secession and other Documents. 1860-1861. 13.-Coronado's Journey to New Mexico and the Great Plains. 1540-42. 14.-Plans of Union. 1696-1780.

15. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, with the Alien, Sedition and other Acts. 1798-1799.

16.-Documents illustrating the Territorial Development of the United States. 1584-1774.

17.-Documents relating to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. 1854.

18.-Lincoln's Inaugural and First Message to Congress. 1861.

19.

Extracts from the Navigation Acts.

1645-1696.

20. The Exact Text of the Articles of Confederation, with the Franklin and Dickinson Drafts. From the Original Manuscripts. 1776-1781.

21.-The Stamp Act. 1765.

22.-Documents illustrating State Land Claims and Cessions. 1776-1802. 23.-Extracts from the Dred Scott Decision. 1857.

24.-Documents relative to the Bank Controversy. 1829-1833.

25.-Extracts from the Massachusetts Body of Liberties.

1641.

26.-Extracts from Lincoln's State Papers. Dec. 1861-March 1865. 27.-The Early History of Virginia.

Relation, etc.

Extracts from John Smith's True

28.-Proposals to Amend the Articles of Confederation. 1780-1787. 29.-The Early History of Plymouth. Extracts from Bradford and Mount. 30.-Constitutional Doctrines of Webster, Hayne, and Calhoun. 1828-1833. 31.-Extracts from John Winthrop's History of New England. 32.-Documents relating to Territorial Administration. 1778-1790. 33.-James Otis and the Writs of Assistance.

34.-Extracts from Official Documents embodying the Canal Diplomacy of the United States. 1823-1901.

All of the above numbers are now ready for delivery. Price, 10 Cents per number.

SOME PRESS AND OTHER COMMENTS.

"The Leaflets' which the professors of American History at Harvard have been editing during the past three years afford in every respect the best available material for the study of our national history in preparatory schools and lower college grades. Each Leaflet presents a single document, or group of documents most intimately associated, chosen with the design of affording to the student the means of reading and studying for himself the exact language and meaning of the document in question." Journal of Education.

"A file of these leaflets is a necessity to every library."—New York World. "These extracts from original documents, made by most competent hands, are intended to facilitate the study of American History in the original documents by those unable to reach large libraries, or by school classes without the time or ability to find and consult the State papers."-Book News.

"Designed to encourage the method of studying and teaching History by means of the original sources."—Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science.

"These leaflets are valuable aids to the scientific study of history through its important documents; state papers which have had a distinct influence on the conduct of the state being published in this form at a trifling cost."-Springfield Republican.

"They seem to me to be exactly what was needed."—C. V. Parsell, President, Clinton Liberal Institute, Fort Plain, N. Ÿ.

"It seems to me that your History Leaflets ought to be in the hands of every progressive teacher of American History."--J. D. Dillingham, Principal of Schools, Corona, N. Y.

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