American Commonwealths.Edited by Horace E. Scudder.
VIRGINIA. A History of the People. By John Esten Cooke, author of "Life of Stonewall Jackson," etc.OREGON. The Struggle for Possession. By William Barrows, D. D.MARYLAND. The History of a Palatinate. By William Hand Browne, Associate of Johns Hopkins University.KENTUCKY. A Pioneer Commonwealth. By Nathaniel S. Shaler, S. D., Professor of Palæontology, Harvard University.MICHIGAN. A History of Governments. By Thomas McIntyre Cooley, LL. D., formerly Chief Justice of Michigan.KANSAS. The Prelude to the War for the Union. By Leverett W. Spring, formerly Professor in English Literature in the University of Kansas.CALIFORNIA. From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco. A Study of American Character. By Josiah Royce, Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Harvard University, formerly Professor in the University of California.NEW YORK. The Planting and the Growth of the Empire State. By the Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, Editor of the Utica Herald. In two volumes.CONNECTICUT. A Study of a Commonwealth Democracy. By Professor Alexander Johnston, author of "American Politics."MISSOURI. A Bone of Contention. By Lucien Carr, M. A., Assistant Curator of the Peabody Museum of Archæology.INDIANA. A Redemption from Slavery. By J. P. Dunn, Jr., author of "Massacres of the Mountains."OHIO. First Fruits of the Ordinance of 1787. By Hon. Rufus King.VERMONT. By Rowland E. Robinson.
VIRGINIA. A History of the People. By John Esten Cooke, author of "Life of Stonewall Jackson," etc.
OREGON. The Struggle for Possession. By William Barrows, D. D.
MARYLAND. The History of a Palatinate. By William Hand Browne, Associate of Johns Hopkins University.
KENTUCKY. A Pioneer Commonwealth. By Nathaniel S. Shaler, S. D., Professor of Palæontology, Harvard University.
MICHIGAN. A History of Governments. By Thomas McIntyre Cooley, LL. D., formerly Chief Justice of Michigan.
KANSAS. The Prelude to the War for the Union. By Leverett W. Spring, formerly Professor in English Literature in the University of Kansas.
CALIFORNIA. From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco. A Study of American Character. By Josiah Royce, Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Harvard University, formerly Professor in the University of California.
NEW YORK. The Planting and the Growth of the Empire State. By the Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, Editor of the Utica Herald. In two volumes.
CONNECTICUT. A Study of a Commonwealth Democracy. By Professor Alexander Johnston, author of "American Politics."
MISSOURI. A Bone of Contention. By Lucien Carr, M. A., Assistant Curator of the Peabody Museum of Archæology.
INDIANA. A Redemption from Slavery. By J. P. Dunn, Jr., author of "Massacres of the Mountains."
OHIO. First Fruits of the Ordinance of 1787. By Hon. Rufus King.
VERMONT. By Rowland E. Robinson.
In Preparation.
NEW JERSEY. By Austin Scott, Ph. D.ILLINOIS. By E. G. Mason.SOUTH CAROLINA. By Edward McCrady, Jr.
NEW JERSEY. By Austin Scott, Ph. D.
ILLINOIS. By E. G. Mason.
SOUTH CAROLINA. By Edward McCrady, Jr.
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American Men of Letters.Edited by Charles Dudley Warner.
WASHINGTON IRVING. By Charles Dudley Warner, author of "In the Levant," etc.NOAH WEBSTER. By Horace E. Scudder, author of "Stories and Romances," "A History of the United States of America," etc.HENRY D. THOREAU. By Frank B. Sanborn.GEORGE RIPLEY. By Octavius Brooks Frothingham, author of "Transcendentalism in New England."JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. By Thomas R. Lounsbury, Professor of English in the Scientific School of Yale College.MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson, author of "Malbone," "Oldport Days," etc.RALPH WALDO EMERSON. By Oliver Wendell Holmes, author of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," etc.EDGAR ALLAN POE. By George E. Woodberry, author of "A History of Wood Engraving."NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS. By Henry A. Beers, Professor of English Literature in Yale College.BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. By John Bach McMaster, author of "History of the People of the United States."WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. By John Bigelow, author of "Molinos the Quietist," etc.WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS. By William P. Trent, Professor of English Literature in the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.
WASHINGTON IRVING. By Charles Dudley Warner, author of "In the Levant," etc.
NOAH WEBSTER. By Horace E. Scudder, author of "Stories and Romances," "A History of the United States of America," etc.
HENRY D. THOREAU. By Frank B. Sanborn.
GEORGE RIPLEY. By Octavius Brooks Frothingham, author of "Transcendentalism in New England."
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. By Thomas R. Lounsbury, Professor of English in the Scientific School of Yale College.
MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson, author of "Malbone," "Oldport Days," etc.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON. By Oliver Wendell Holmes, author of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," etc.
EDGAR ALLAN POE. By George E. Woodberry, author of "A History of Wood Engraving."
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS. By Henry A. Beers, Professor of English Literature in Yale College.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. By John Bach McMaster, author of "History of the People of the United States."
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. By John Bigelow, author of "Molinos the Quietist," etc.
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS. By William P. Trent, Professor of English Literature in the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.
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American Statesmen.Edited by John T. Morse, Jr.
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. By John T. Morse, Jr., author of "A Life of Alexander Hamilton," etc.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON. By Henry Cabot Lodge, author of "The English Colonies in America," etc.
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JOHN RANDOLPH. By Henry Adams, author of "New England Federalism," etc.
JAMES MONROE. By D. C. Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
THOMAS JEFFERSON. By John T. Morse, Jr.
DANIEL WEBSTER. By Henry Cabot Lodge.
ALBERT GALLATIN. By John Austin Stevens, recently editor of "The Magazine of American History."
JAMES MADISON. By Sydney Howard Gay, author (with William Cullen Bryant) of "A Popular History of the United States."
JOHN ADAMS. By John T. Morse, Jr.
JOHN MARSHALL. By Allan B. Magruder.
SAMUEL ADAMS. By James K. Hosmer, author of "A Short History of German Literature," etc.
THOMAS HART BENTON. By Theodore Roosevelt, author of "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman," etc.
HENRY CLAY. By Hon. Carl Schurz. 2 vols.
PATRICK HENRY. By Moses Coit Tyler, author of "History of American Literature," etc.
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. By Theodore Roosevelt.
MARTIN VAN BUREN. By Edward M. Shepard.
GEORGE WASHINGTON. By Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge. In two volumes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. By John T. Morse, Jr.
JOHN JAY. By George Pellew, author of "Woman and the Commonwealth."
LEWIS CASS. By Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, of the University of Michigan.
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American Religious Leaders.
A Series of Biographies of Men who have had great influence onReligious Thought and Life in the United States.
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JONATHAN EDWARDS. By Professor A. V. G. Allen, author of "The Continuity of Christian Thought."
DR. MUHLENBERG. By Rev. William Wilberforce Newton.
WILBUR FISK. By Professor George Prentice, of Wesleyan University.
FRANCIS WAYLAND. By Professor J. O. Murray, of Princeton.
CHARLES G. FINNEY. By Professor G. Frederick Wright.
MARK HOPKINS. By President Franklin Carter, of Williams College.
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HENRY BOYNTON SMITH. By Professor L. F. Stearns, of Bangor Theological Seminary, Bangor, Me.
ARCHBISHOP HUGHES. By John G. Shea, LL. D., author of "The Catholic Authors of America," etc.
CHARLES HODGE. By President Francis L. Patton, of Princeton.
THEODORE PARKER. By John Fiske, author of "The Idea of God," "Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy," etc.
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This series includes biographies of eminent men who represent the theology and methods of the various religious denominations of America. The Series when completed will not only depict in a clear and memorable way several great figures in American religious history, but will indicate the leading characteristics of that history, the progress and process of religious philosophy in America, the various types of theology which have shaped or been shaped by the various churches, and the relation of these to the life and thought of the Nation.
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