... , the muse of American history descended from her stump, and recounting her narrative in a key adapted to our own ears. An historian who did not liberate himself entirely from patriotic bias was John Gorham Palfrey (1798-1881). Although he falls slightly without the limits of time assigned to this chapter, he was by nature and purpose a member of what has been called the filio-pietistic group. Bred a Unitaria...