Historical Essays

James Ford Rhodes, american industrialist and historian born in Cleveland (1848-1927)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

-01- ABOUT THIS BOOK

-02- PREFACE

-03- HISTORY

-04- CONCERNING THE WRITING OF HISTORY

-05- THE PROFESSION OF HISTORIAN

-06- NEWSPAPERS AS HISTORICAL SOURCES

-07- SPEECH PREPARED FOR THE COMMENCEMENT DINNER AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

-08- EDWARD GIBBON

-09- SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER

-10- WILLIAM E. H. LECKY

-11- SIR SPENCER WALPOLE

-12- JOHN RICHARD GREEN

-13- EDWARD L. PIERCE

-14- JACOB D. COX

-15- EDWARD GAYLORD BOURNE

-16- THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE

-17- A REVIEW OF PRESIDENT HAYES’S ADMINISTRATION

-18- EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN

-19- WHO BURNED COLUMBIA

-20- A NEW ESTIMATE OF CROMWELL