Frank Burt Freidel

Discusses the history and development of the United States and spotlights numerous cities to illustrate changes within the nation.

A textbook on American history and government which draws heavily on primary and secondary source materials. Includes maps, drawings, and photographs.

Bibliographical footnotes. Causes of the American Civil War / John L. Motley -- Right of secession / Joel Parker -- Great drama; an appeal to Maryland / John P. Kennedy -- The War : its cause and remedy; immediate emanipation : the only wise and safe mode / Lewis Tappan -- Letter of Archbishop Hughes to Bishop Lynch, of South Carolina / John J. Hughes -- Brownson on the rebellion / Orestes A. Brownson -- Captain Maury's letter on American affairs. Also the address of Hon. John C. Breckinridge to the people of Kentucky / Matthew F. Maury & John C. Breckinridge -- Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus under the Constitution / Horace Binney -- Personal liberty and martial law: a review of some pamphlets of the day / Edward Ingersoll -- War for the Union; a lecture / Wendell Phillips -- Tracts for the times. Courage! / Mary A. Dodge -- Contest in America / John Stuart Mill -- Via media : a peaceful and permanent settlement of the slavery question / Emma Willard --^ Relation of the national government to revolted citizens defined / Anna E. Carroll -- How a free people conduct a long war : a chapter from English history / Charles J. Stillé --Facts for the people -- Executive power / Benjamin R. Curtis -- The Commander-in-Chief; a defence upon legal grounds of the Proclamation of Emancipation / Grosvenor P. Lowrey -- Desert and the promised land / Edward E. Hale -- Unconditional loyalty / Henry W. Bellows -- The Constitution. Addresses of Prof. Morse, Mr. Geo Ticknor Curtis, and Mr. S.J. Tilden, at the organization / Samuel F.B. Morse [et al.] -- About the war. Plain words to plain people by a plain man / Ezra M. Hunt. Vol.2. The great Union meeting. Held at Indianapolis, February 26th, 1863. Speeches of Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, Gen. Samuel F. Carey, of Ohio, and others -- Copperheads under the heel of an Illinois farmer -- The future of the North-West : in connection with the scheme of reconstruction without New England / Robert D. Owen --^ Letter of a Republican...and Prof. Morse's reply... / Edward N. Crosby & S.F.B. Morse -- General Washington and General Jackson on Negro soldiers / Henry C. Baird -- Bible view of slavery / John H. Hopkins -- To churchmen -- The great Civil War in America / Clement L. Vallandigham --Truth from an honest man / Abraham Lincoln -- Reply to President Lincoln's letter / John V.L. Pruyn -- A few words in behalf of the loyal women of the United States -- The draft, or, conscription reviewed by the people -- Daniel O'Connell and the Committee of the Irish Repeal Association of Cincinnati -- Rebel conditions of peace and the mechanics of the South -- Our domestic relations : or, how to treat the rebel states / Charles Sumner -- Ye book of copperheads / Charles G. Leland & Henry P. Leland -- "Let us reason together" / George F. Comstock -- Abraham Lincoln -- The President's policy / James R. Lowell -- Our burden and our strength / David A. Wells -- Growler's income tax / Timothy S. Arthur --^ The Lincoln catechism -- The great surrender to the rebels in arms. The armistice -- A few plain words with the rank and file of the Union armies -- Report of the Judge Advocate General, on the "Order of American Knights," or "Sons of Liberty" / U.S. Bureau of Military Justice -- Great speech...at New London, Conn. / Robert C. Winthrop -- Hear Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton / George H. Pendleton --Lincoln or McClellan. Appeal to Germans in America / Francis Lieber -- The coward's convention / Charles A. Bristed -- Abraham Lincoln; his life and its lessons / Joseph P. Thompson.

Illustrated biographies of the first forty presidents of the United States.

A brief biography of the first President and information on the construction of the Washington Monument.

A well-told narrative of US participation in the most godawful and useless of modern wars. In 1917, on the eve of its entry into WWI, the US was without a single army division. Nineteen months later, the nation’s armed and naval forces had grown to 4 million people, and their deployment had tipped the balance of war in Europe against the Central Powers. Farwell, a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars (Armies of the Raj: From Mutiny to Independence, 1989, etc.), here describes that extraordinary build-up of American armed might and what it wrought. It’s hard to imagine a better, and better-written, tale of the US’s first military venture on European soil. What the book lacks in fresh insights or perspective it makes up for in compactness, comprehensiveness, balance, and style. Perhaps never before have so many topics about this Great War been covered with such economy and to such effect. We learn of storied generals and unknown doughboys, preparedness and weaponry, trench warfare and African-Americans in battle, and campaigns and peace maneuvers—as well as the horrors of the battlefront. And we learn of them always with an apt story, a telling statistic, or a sharp portrait’such as of the fabled Sergeant Alvin York or the “Lost Battalion.” It’s regrettable, however, that little of the stupidity and absurdity of war (so brilliantly brought to life in the works of Paul Fussell) finds its place in Farwell’s account.Nevertheless, someone looking for an introduction to this part of American history will find the basics of what should be known in this book. A fine place to go for a narrative history of its subject.

For the men who fought in it, the Spanish American War was far from "splendid." Here is the story of those men, both soldiers and correspondents. Here, also, are more than 300 photographs and line drawings made on the spot by noted artists.