Historical essays
By: by James Ford Rhodes ...
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1909
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: History; United States -- History
Table of contents: title: History.-  Concerning the writing of history.-  The profession of historian.-  Newspaper as historical sources.-  Speech prepared for the commencement dinner at Harvard university, June 26, 1901.-  Edward Gibbon.-  Samuel Rawson Gardiner.-  William E.H. Lecky.-  Sir Spencer Walpole.-  John Richard Green.-  Edward L. Pierce.-  Jacob D. Cox.- Edward Gaylord Bourne.-  The presidential office.-  A review of President Hayes's administration.-  Edwin Laurence Godkin.-  Who burned Columbia?- A new estimate of Cromwell.