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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 42 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 23 3 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 10 2 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 4 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 4 2 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fiske, John 1842- (search)
Fiske, John 1842- Historian; born in Hartford, Conn., March 31, 1842; graduated at Harvard in 1863 and at its Law School in 1865, but never practised; has since been identified with that institution as instructor, lecturer, assistant librarianthemes. He was the son of Edmund Brewster Green, of Smyrna, Del., and Mary Fiske Bound, of Middletown, Conn. In 1852 John Fiske. his father died and three years later his mother married Edwin W. Stoughton, of New York. The same year the boy, whose name was Edmund Fiske Green, assumed the name of John Fiske, which was that of his maternal grandfather. Professor Fiske's works fall under two heads: philosophical, including the Cosmic Philosophy; Idea of God, etc.; and historical, including TheProfessor Fiske's works fall under two heads: philosophical, including the Cosmic Philosophy; Idea of God, etc.; and historical, including The critical period of American history; Civil government in the United States; The War of Independence; The American Revolution; The beginnings of New England; The discovery of America; Old Virginia and her natives. His three essays, The federal Unio
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), entry manifest-destiny- (search)
Manifest destiny. In a lecture delivered at the Royal Institute of Great Britain in May, 1880, on the subject of The manifest destiny of the Anglo-Saxon race, Prof. John Fiske recalled the story of the three Americans, each of whom proposed a toast. Here's to the United States, said the first speaker— bounded on the north by British America; on the south by the Gulf of Mexico; on the east by the Atlantic, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. The second speaker said: Here's to the Unllow-countryman who has just sat down? I give you the United States —bounded on the north by the aurora borealis, on the south by the precession of the equinoxes, on the east by the primeval chaos, and on the west by the day of judgment. Professor Fiske offered some considerations concerning the future of the United States, which he said might seem unreasonably large to his audience, but which were quite modest, after all, when compared with some other prophecies. A few short extracts fr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Old South Church, (search)
Old South Church, Boston. The opposition to the requirement of church-membership for the exercise of political rights (see half-way covenant) led to the establishment, in 1669, of the Third Church in Boston, known as The old South since 1717, of which Mr. Fiske says: It is a building with a grander history than any other on the American continent, unless it be that other plain brick building in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was adopted and the federal Constitution framed.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Town-meetings, (search)
abstract political principles were debated. By these discussions an intelligent public sentiment was created concerning the rights of man, and particularly the rights of Englishmen in America, which was ready to support, by its power, the champions of freedom in the great struggle for justice, and finally for independence. It was this latter feature of the town-meeting that excited the opposition of the crown officers, who called it a focus of rebellion. They hated and feared it. Prof. John Fiske, in his illuminating essay on the town-meeting, has set forth its origin and relation to German, English, and American history in the most brilliant manner. We give a few short extracts from the same. Immediately on their arrival in New England the settlers proceeded to form for themselves a government as purely democratic as any that had ever been seen in the world. Instead of scattering about over the country, the requirements of education and of public worship, as well as of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vinland (search)
on Pre-Columbian explorations in the Narrative and critical history of America, vol. i. The best popular account of the Norsemen and their voyages is that by Mr. Fiske, in his Discovery of America, vol. i., chap. II. Mr. Fiske is refreshingly sound and sane in his treatment of the whole subject, which with so many writers hasMr. Fiske is refreshingly sound and sane in his treatment of the whole subject, which with so many writers has been a field for the wildest speculations. He shows the absurdity of the earlier writers who used to associate the Old Mill at Newport and the inscriptions on the Dighton rock with the Northmen, and the slight grounds on which, at the present time, enthusiasts like Professor Horsford have attempted to determine details so exactly as to claim that Leif Erikson settled on the banks of Charles River. On the whole, concludes Mr. Fiske, we may say with some confidence that the place described by our chroniclers as Vinland was situated somewhere between Point Judith and Cape Breton; possibly we may narrow our limits, and say that it was somewhere between Cape
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, George (search)
the new national government. The student is referred to vol. XI. of Ford's edition of the writings of Washington for the complete collection of his letters during this period. He will also find in that volume Washington's diary during the constitutional convention, which, although but a skeleton, will give him an insight into Washington's life in Philadelphia from May to September, 1787. In the various Lives of Washington, in the last volume of Bancroft's History of the United States, in Fiske's Critical period of American history, and in other American histories, are good accounts of the disorders following the Revolution, and of the successful measures, so largely directed by Washington, which gradually brought order out of chaos. In the series of Old South leaflets are many which will be of use in this connection. Among these are Washington's circular letter to the governors of the States in 1783 (No. 15), Washington's letter to Benjamin Harrison in 1784 (No. 16), Selections
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilson, James Grant 1832- (search)
Wilson, James Grant 1832- Author; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, April 28, 1832; was brought to the United States in infancy; engaged in the publishing business with his father; served through the Civil War, attaining the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers; and at its close settled in New York City and engaged in literary work. He was author of Bryant and his friends; General Grant; Centennial history of the diocese of New York; Life of Fitz-Greene Halleck; Sketches of illustrious soldiers; editor of Fitz-Greene Halleck's poems; and, with Prof. John Fiske, of Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American biography; Great commanders series; and Memorial history of the City of New York; and president of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society since 1885.