AUTHOR OF "OUR REPUBLIC," "ADVANCED AMERICAN HISTORY," PREFACE Teachers of history are no longer content that the work shall revolve around political and military themes and around these themes alone. As the story moves on the class from time to time turns from the scenes of the senate, the hustings, and the camp to scenes of the farm, the factory, the church, the theatre, the school. The student must learn how the people developed their industries, how they conducted business, how they traveled, how they worshipped, how they educated their children, how they amused themselves, how they managed their household affairs. With the view of helping the class in American history to make fruitful excursions into the life and manners of the past, I have prepared this volume of supplementary material. In order to give the book a distinctive feature of usefulness, I have devoted its pages quite exclusively to social and economic topics. Sidelights are thrown upon the experiences of the farmer and the planter and the pioneer; upon the activities of manufacturers and merchants and bankers; upon the history of the agencies of transportation-highways and canals and steamboats and railroads; upon the lives of the toiling masses-slaves and indentured servants and immigrants and wage-earners; upon the institutions of every day lifereligion and education and amusements and the domestic circle. For the privilege of using some of the selections I am indebted to permissions granted by certain authors and publishers whose kindness is highly appreciated both by myself and by the Century Company. These courtesies have been acknowledged in a specific manner at appropriate places in the book. While preparing the volume I received valuable assistance from the officers of the Library of Congress and for their courtesies also I am truly grateful. Washington, D. C. S. E. FORMAN. 676590 CONTENTS THE RENAISSANCE AND INVENTION. Edward Maslin Hulme . ENGLAND'S MOTIVES FOR FOUNDING COLONIES. Victor S. ΙΟ ENGLAND AND the Slave TRADE. H. E. Garland THE SCOTCH-IRISH IN IRELAND. Samuel Swett Green THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND. Ezra C. Seaman CONDITIONS ON THE CONTINENT AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Henry Eldridge Bourne. AGRICULTURE AND THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT A POET'S FORECAST. Philip Freneau. |