Thomas Jefferson: American Encyclopaedist
The third President of the United States had been the first American Minister in Paris; Stuart Andrews describes how, to the end of his life, he was a faithful disciple of the French Enlightenment.
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Alaska: Russia's Folly
Louis C. Kleber describes how the United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Government at a price of just two cents an acre.
The Back-to-Africa Idea
Throughout the nineteenth century, and well into the twentieth, writes Robert G. Weisbord, the idea of a return to Africa stirred the imagination of Negro leaders in the United States.
Spain and France in Florida
In 1513 the Spaniards reached Florida; Louis C. Kleber describes how fifty years later the French followed them.
Two Great Nations: 1815-50
During the first half of the nineteenth century, as Tocqueville perceptively remarked, Russia and the United States had grown to nationhood almost unnoticed. ‘The world learned of their existence and their greatness at almost the same time’. By Paul Dukes.
The Presidential Election of 1876
In the centenary year of the Declaration of Independence, a deeply troubled American Republic went to the polls to elect a new president. A close and bitter election followed, fought in the shadow of scandal and fraud.
South Carolina: Proprietary Colony
Louis C. Kleber traces the early settlement of the Palmetto State.
Canada: The Struggle for the Fourteenth State
For several generations, writes Arnold Whitridge, Americans thought it inevitable that the Canadian provinces would join the United States.
Pulpit Incendiaries in the American Colonies
Robert Cecil describes how the preacher’s influence in the years before the American Revolution was as great as that of the press, and in New England probably greater.
Huey Long: The Louisiana Kingfish
As Governor and Senator, Huey Long, established a radical dictatorship in his native Louisiana; Peter J. King writes how, at the time of his death, Long was nourishing nation-wide ambitions.