# The American Historical Review/Volume 6

THE
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
BOARD OF EDITORS
| GEORGE B. ADAMS ALBERT BUSHNELL HART HARRY PRATT JUDSON | ANDREW C. McLAUGHLIN WILLIAM M. SLOANE H. MORSE STEPHENS |
MANAGING EDITOR J. FRANKLIN JAMESON
VOL. VI OCTOBER 1900 TO JULY 1901
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd. 1901
Copyright, 1901
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
PRESS OF THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY, LANCASTER, PA.
* CONTENTS OF VOL. VI
* Number 1. October, 1900.
* ARTICLES
* Albert E. McKinleyThe English and Dutch Towns of New Netherland................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
* John B. SanbornSome Political Aspects of Homestead Legislation................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................19
* Walter L. FlemingThe Buford Expedition to Kansas................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38
* George L. BurrThe Guiana Boundary................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................49
* DOCUMENTS—Diary of John Harrower, 1773–1776................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................65
* REVIEWS OF BOOKS................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................108
* COMMUNICATIONS................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................181
* NOTES AND NEWS................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................183
Number 2. January, 1901.
ARTICLES
Charles F. Adams The Sifted Grain and the Grain-Sifters
R. M. Johnston Mirabeau's Secret Mission to Berlin
James B. Angell The Turkish Capitulations
Carl Becker Nominations in Colonial New York
Edward G. Bourne The Legend of Marcus Whitman
DOCUMENTS— Diary of Samuel Cooper, 1775, 1776; Letter of John Quincy Adams, 1811 301
REVIEWS OF BOOKS
Number 3. April, 1901.
ARTICLES
The Meeting of the American Historical Association at Detroit and Ann Arbor 413
George L. Burr The Year 1000 and the Antecedents of the Crusades 429
Charles Gross The Political Influence of the University of Paris in the Middle Ages . . . 440
Charles H. Levermore The Rise of Metropolitan Journalism, 1800-1840 446
James F. Rhodes Sherman's March to the Sea .... 466
Paul S. ReiNiCH French Experience with Representative Government in the West Indies . . . 475
DOCUMENTS— The Society of Dissenters founded at New York in 1769; Mi- randa and the British Admiralty, I S04-1806 498
REVIEWS OF BOOKS 531
NOTES AND NEWS 615
Number 4. July, 1901.
ARTICLES
William Miller The Republic of San Marino . . .633
Norman M. Trenholme The Risings in the English Monastic Towns in 1327 650
H. P. BiGGAR The French Hakluyt ; Marc Lescarbot of Vervins 671
Albert E, McKinley The Transition from Dutch to English Rule in New York 693
DOCUMENTS— Letters of Dr. Thomas Cooper, 1825-1832; Letters on the Nullification Movement in South Carolina, 1S30-1834, I.; A Ministerial Crisis in France, 1876 725
REVIEWS OF BOOKS 770
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL— A Trial Bibliography of American Diplomacy, by Albert Bushnell Hart 848
NOTES AND NEWS 867
INDEX 885