A PARTIAL LIST OF AMERICAN VIEWPOINT AUTHORS JEREMIAH WHIPPLE JENKS, Ph. D., LL. D., Research Professor of Government and Public Administration, New York University; Chairman, Board of Directors, Alexander Hamilton Institute. ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, Ph. D., LL.D., Professor of Government, Harvard University. JOSEPH FRENCH JOHNSON, D. C. S., LL. D., Dean ASHLEY H. THORNDIKE, A. M., Ph. D., Professor of EUGENE LYMAN FISK, M. D., Vice-President and RUFUS DANIEL SMITH, M. A., Associate Professor RUDOLPH M. BINDER, Ph. D., Professor of Sociology, ILLUSTRATIONS FOR "WE AND OUR HISTORY" The photographs for this book were secured from (1) the Departments and Bureaus of the Federal Government, (2) the Library of Congress, (3) New York Public Library, (4) Underwood and Underwood, and The publishers are Ewing Galloway, New York, and (5) the private collection of Albert Bushnell Hart. Congress, for his valued cooperation, and indebted to David E. Roberts, Division of Prints, Library of "Hart American History Series " also to the Denoyer-Geppert Company, Chicago, for permission to use its maps as a basis for those on pages 74, 152 and 210. FEDERAL COOPERATION The American Viewpoint Society is authorized by the Secretary of the U. S. Department of Labor to the citizenship state that the work it is undertaking in the production of books and educational films for classes throughout the United States is done in cooperation with and in furtherance of the policies and plans of the Department in its citizenship training work. PART ONE. Foundations of the Republic (1492-1789) Page Chapter 1.-THE LAND WE LIVE IN... Columbus, First American Geographer. Chapter 3.-CONQUEST OF THE WILDERNESS (1492-1750) Benjamin Franklin, Colonial Statesman... Chapter 4.-HOW THE COLONIES BECAME A NATION (1750-1783)... George Washington, Father of His Country... PART TWO. The Young United States (1789-1865) Chapter 6.-GETTING UNDER WAY (1789-1815).. Thomas Jefferson, Apostle of Popular Government. Chapter 7.-POPULAR GOVERNMENT (1815-1829). PART THREE. Welding the Nation (1865-1897) Chapter 11.-REUNION OF THE PEOPLE (1865-1897) Ulysses S. Grant, the Plain Man..... Chapter 12.-POLITICS AND PUBLIC MEN (1877-1885). Grover Cleveland, Self-Educated President. Chapter 13.-IMMIGRANTS AND EMIGRANTS (1877-1897). William McKinley, Self-Made Man... PART FOUR. Twentieth-Century Americans (1898-1923) Chapter 15.-PARTIES AND PRESIDENTS (1898-1923).. Theodore Roosevelt, the Great Mixer..... Chapter 16.-WESTWARD AND EASTWARD (1898-1917)... Julia Ward Howe, Writer, Reformer, Homekeeper. Chapter 17.-CARE OF THE PEOPLE (1898-1923)... Samuel L. Clemens, the Author for the People.. Chapter 18.-IN THE WORLD WAR (1914-1919)... Woodrow Wilson, War President.. PART FIVE. Appendix MAP OF THE KNOWN WORLD BEFORE COLUMBUS DISCOVERED AMERICA Norsemen led by Leif Ericson had found strange lands across the Atlantic about five hundred years before Columbus discovered America, but their discoveries were forgotten. Therefore the real discovery of the New World must be credited to Christopher Columbus, the famous Italian navigator PART I Foundations of the Republic 1492-1789 WE hold these truths to be self-evident, that |