Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-21
WRITER'S OF HISTORY
American Historical Association Soon to
Meet Here.
Papers to Be Read mt the Sessions
Officers and Members of
the Organization.

The American Historical Association Will
hold its eleventh annual meeting in this
city Thursday and Friday, December 20
and 81. The sessions will be held in the
hall of Columbian University and at the
Arlington Hotel. The association now
numbers els members, with 100 life men,
bers. The officers for 1895 are: President,
Senator Geo. F. Hoar; vice presidents,
Richard s. Storrs of Brooklyn and James
Schouler of Boston; secretary, Herbert b.
Adams of Johns Hopkins University; A.
Howard Clark of Washington; treasurer,
Clarence Winthrop Bowen of New York;
members of the executive council, Andrew
d. White of Ithaca, Juston Winsor of Cam
bridge, Mass: Charles Kendall Adams.
president of Wisconsin University; VIM.
Writ Henry of Richmond, Va; James B.
Angel, president of the University of
Michigan; Henry Adams of Washington,
Dr. G. Brown Goode of the Smithsonian,
Geo. b. Adams of Yale University, ]. L.
NJ Curry, DID,, of Washington, and Theo-
dore Roosevelt of New York.
Many papers of interest will be read at
the coming meeting. The program Is as
follows:
Opening session. Thursday, December 90.
Columbian University, pm. !. Inaugural
addre ss. Popular Discomfort With Repre-
sentative Government, by George F. Hoar,
president Of the association.
3 Leopold Won Ranke, by Prof. Edward
G. Bourne of New Haven, Conn.
3. Tributes to deceased members. by Gen.
James Grant Wilson of New York city.
Appointment of committees.
Friday morning session, December q.
Columbian University, 10 am. Section l.
American colonial history. /. Gov. Edward
Winsiow; His Part and Place in Plymouth
Colony, by Rev. VIM. c. Winslow, DID,, OF
Boston. Mass.
Q Political Activity of Massachusetts
n,,rirc fha Parn1 nv a
Gushing, AM, of Columbia College.
8. Assent Van Corlear and His Journal of
1884, by Gen. James Grant Wilson of New
York city.
f. Classification Of Colonial Government,
by Prof. H. L. Osgood of Columbia College.
s. Electoral College for the Senate of
Maryland by DIR. +. c. Steiner, associate
in history. Johns Hopkins University.
G. The Land System of Provincial Penn
sylvania, by VIM. r. Shepherd of Brook
Ign, NY.
by DR.. ]. S. Bassett, professor Of history.
s. Colonial Culture in North Carolina, by
DR.. Stephen B. Weeks, bureau Of educa-
ton, Washington, DC.
9. Historical Work in Canada by DR.. J.
G. Bourinot. clerk Of the Canadian house
10. Colonies of North America and the
Genesis of the Commonwealth of the
United States, by DIR. j. NJ. Toner, library
of Congress.
American political history. 1. The Journals
of the Continental Congress, by Herbert
Friedenwald of Philadelphia, Pa.
2. Loca ting the Capitol, by Gailard Hunt.
Department of State, Washington, DC.
3. Commodore John Barry, by Martin I.
j. Griffin, American Catholic Historical
Society of Philadelphia.
4. The Employment of Indians in the War
Of 1872. by Ernest Cruikshank of Fort Erie,
Ontario.
g. The Agreement of 1917: Reduction of
he 7 alya
by ]. NJ. Callahan of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity.
8. Light on the Underground Railroad. by
Prof W. H. Siebert of Harvard University.
I. The Political Aspects of the Homestead
Law Agitation at Washington, by Prof.
Benjamin S. Ferry of University of Chi
cago
s. some Bold Diplomacy of the United
Statesn 1861. by Gen. Marcus J. Wright
of the War Department, Washington, DC.
8. The Battle of Gettysburg, by Harold
P. Goodnow of Cornell University.
10. The Historical Monograph, by Rev.
Arson Titus of Tufts College, Massachu-
sets.
Friday afternoon session, December q.
History. 1. A Plea for the Study Of the
History of Northern Europe, by DIR. A. c.
Coolidge of Harvard University.
q The French Revolution Seen by the
Dr. Charles d. HaZen, professor of history,
Smith College.
g. Napoleon'S Concordat With Pope Plus
VII, by Prof. Charles L. Wells of Univer-
sity of Minnesota.
4. The German Federal Courts, by o.
valid G. Willard of Harvard University.
Friday evening session, December a. Co
lumbar University, pm. Report Of COM
n,ittees.
J. Democracy VS.. Aristocracy in Virginia
in 1880, by DIR. ]. R. Bracket Of Baltimore.
9. Historical Testimony, by DR.. James
Schouler of Boston.
g. Dismemberment of the Turkish EN-
pire; an Historical Sketch, by Prof Ed
mind K Alden of Packer Institute, Brook
Ign.
L. The French in Mexico and the MONROE
Doctrine, by DR.. Frederic Bancroft Of Co
lumbia College.