The Democratic Republic, 1801-1815. The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1848. The Civil War in Retrospective. Hampden-Sydney, Va. 1959. The Cultural Life of the American Colonies, 1607-1763.
History is so alive and growing that it is hard to see how anyone can think of it as dead and dry.
It is, in reality, little more than a study of the present in terms of the past. Those who condemn history as a mere rattling of ancient skeletons only betray their unfamiliarity with the subject. At least for a democracy, history is the most practical of subjects. Colonial America Discovery and colonization Establishment of the American colonies. The Colonial Wars.