"WESTWARD THE COURSE OF EMPIRE TAKES ITS WAY' A fresco on a staircase in the Capitol at Washington, by Emanuel Leutze. AMERICAN HISTORY BY S. E. FORMAN AUTHOR OF "ADVANCED CIVICS," "A HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1918 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY MINNEAPOLIS, MINN PREFACE The three greatest achievements of the American people have been these: they have transformed a continent from a low condition of barbarism to a high state of civilization; they have developed a commercial and industrial system of vast proportions; and they have evolved the greatest democracy the world has yet seen. In this text, therefore, it has been my aim to present fully and clearly these three aspects of our growth: to show the forces of civilization pressing ever westward upon the wilderness and extending the boundaries of the white man's domain; to show an industrious and ingenious people moving ever forward to make new conquests in the economic world; and to show a liberty-loving nation struggling with new problems of government and advancing ever nearer to a complete realization of popular rule. The manuscript was read by Max Farrand of Yale University; James Morton Callahan of the West Virginia University; W. J. Kerby of the Catholic University of America; James Curtis Ballagh of the University of Pennsylvania; General John C. Black, former President of the Civil Service Commission; H. R. Tucker of the McKinley High School, St. Louis, Missouri; Lynn J. Barnard of the School of Pedagogy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; E. E. Hill of the Chicago Normal School, Chicago, Illinois; William Fairley, Principal of the Commercial High School, Brooklyn, New York; David H. Holbrook of the East High School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; W. A. Lewis of the Central High School, Kansas City, Missouri; John R. Todd of the College of the City of New York; and William A. Wetzel, Principal of the High School, Trenton, New Jersey. To these gentlemen I am greatly in V 288380 |