MARY SHELDON BARNES ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MODERN HISTORY IN LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR Teacher's Manual BOSTON, U.S.A. PUBLISHED BY D. C. HEATH & CO. 1892 TABLE OF CONTENTS. PART II.-SUMMARIES, SPECIAL NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS, AND TEACHER IN CONNECTION WITH EACH LESSON. STUDIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 1. AIM AND PLAN OF STUDIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY. THE distinction of this book is, that Columbus, Washington, Boone, and the other makers of America have been its chief authors, the editors having thrown in only such connections and made such omissions as were necessary to make a short, continuous, and intelligible narrative. The book is thus extracted from the very sources of history, and forms in itself a small collection of these sources. These extracts from the sources are arranged in seven groups of lessons, each group dealing with one of the large aspects of our history. The first group is a mere introduction, teaching something of the history of geographical knowledge and discovery before the time of Columbus; the second is taken from the letters, journals, and stories of the men who discovered one or another part of our great continent; the third group is taken from the records of the days when Englishmen began to settle all along our Atlantic coast; the fourth tells us how it was that these Englishmen in America grew discontented with the rule of their king, fought against him,. and finally won their total independence of England, becoming the United States of America; in the fifth group we see the territorial growth of our people westward from the Alleghanies to the Golden Gate, and their constitutional growth from the Confederation to the Union; the sixth group is taken from the records of our great civil strife; and the seventh and last from those of the completed Union. At the close of each group are placed reference maps and chronological lists in the period covered, by means of which the student can gain more general views than from the special studies 1 |