The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-04-08
American History in u. S. Course

guldeQ IL they are TO wOrk Wisely
for the future. To read extensively
and deeply in the history of the coun-
try becomes, therefore, a patriotic
duty. Only thus can one love his
land with love far brought out of
the storied past" used within the
present" and transferred through
future time by power OF thought"
History Interesting.
Those who have learned to read his
tory find it the most interesting form
of literature. The story of any coun-
try or of any great movement of any
people, fifty told, is entertaining, es-
pecially when the reader has learned
to understand the relation to each
other of the thought and feeling and
purpose and action of the people
No country has a more interesting
history than the United States, which.
from its beginnings in the scattered
settlements of immigrants from Euro
pean shores 800 years ago and less,
has grown, through colonial and ma
tional life, till 1t has become the great
est, wealthiest, most powerful and
most prosperous. the freest, the most
self-controlled and sedf-restrained. the
most cosmopolitan, and the most firm
ly united nation the world has ever
known.
The story Of the United States 10
the story. not of dynasties and courts,
but OF the people, their life, their in
dustries, their aspirations, and the
democratic institutions through which
they have sought to attain these aspir-
ations, and every line of the story
throbs with present interest and flu
ture meaning
1t is with the hope that many boys
and girls, young men and women, and
older persons, too, may be stimulated
by it to learn more of the story than
they otherwise would, and thereby be-
come more intelligent and better citi-
zens, while experiencing the Joy Of liv-
ing in the past and learning to know
those who have made the present, that
the Bureau Of Education issue through
its Division of Home Education this
list of books on American history as
Reading Course No. 1O.' In making
up the the list the bureau has had the
assistance of DR.. w. H. Mace, pro-
lessor Of history, Syracuse Univers-
ity; DR.. Wilbur F. Gordy, teacher and
author; DR.. Franklin l.. Riley, pro-
fessor of history, Washington and Lee
University; DR.. William Starr Myers,
professor of history, Princeton Uni
versity.
To any person giving satisfactory
evidence of having read any IS Of
the % books Of the list there will be-
| awarded certificate bearing the seal
of the United States Bureau Of Educa-
ton and signed by the commissioner
of education. All who wish to know
more of the story of their country
and who can find time to read a few
hours week are invited to join the
national reading circle and take this
| course. No one, however, who has
| already begun another of the courses
of this circle should begin this until
| that is finished.
Libraries Cooperating
Many public libraries in all parts of
the country are cooperating with this
bureau in promoting the work of the
national reading circle, and libra rians
VIII be glad to supply these books to
their readers upon request
In writing about this course please
address the Bureau of Education
Washington, D. c., and refer to it as
Home Edua ton Division, Reading
Course No. 10, or as the American
History Course.
Books in American History Course
l. European Background of Ameri
can History. BY E. P. Cheyney.
2. The Colonies. BY Reuben Gold
Thwaites.
8. Montcalm and Wolfe. By Francis
Parkman.
4. Old Virginia and Her Neighbors
By John Fiske.
5, Beginnings of New England. By
John Fiske
6. Men, Women and Manners in
Colonial Times. By Sidney George
Fisher.
7. Dutch and Quaker Colonies in
America. By John Fiske.
8. The American Revolution. BY
John Fiske.
9. Lecky's American Revolution
James Albert WOODBURY. (editor).
10. Story of the Revolution. BY
Henry Cabot Lodge.
II. Critical Period of American His
tory. By John Fiske.
II. Henry Clay. By Carl Schurz
10 Life of George Washington. BY
Woodrow Wilson.
IA. Rise of the New West By Fred
erick jackson Turner
Is. Winning of the West By Theo
dore Roosevelt.
Is. Economic History of the United
States. By E. l.. Bogart.
II. Division and Reunion. By Wood
row Wilson.
IS. The Lower South in American
History. BY William Carrot Brown.
10. Abraham Lincoln. By John It
Morse
20. Reconstruction, Political ant
Economic. By William Archibald
Duning.
81 National Problems 1SS41S9D
By Davis r. Dewey
%. America as a World Power. By
John Holiday Latane.