General Note:
Part of the reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1896 and 1897.
Formatted Contents Note:
Report of proceedings of twelfth annual meeting in New York .. -- Report of the treasurer -- Inaugural address by Dr. Richard S. Storrs -- Leopold von Ranke -- The journal and papers of the continental congress -- The antirent episode in the State of New York -- A know-nothing legislature -- Peale's original whole-length portrait of Washington -- Political science and history -- The use of history made by the framers of the constitution -- Schemes for Episcopal control in the colonies -- The teaching of history -- The teaching of European history in the college -- The west as a field for historical study -- A plea for the study of votes in Congress -- The northern lake frontier during the Civil War -- Langdon Cheves and the United States bank -- The influence of the American Revolution on England's government -- The government of federal territories in Europe -- The value of maps in boundary disputes -- Report of the historical manuscripts commission of the American Historical Association -- Letters of Phineas Bond, British Consul at Philadelphia, to the Foreign Office of Great Britain, 1787-1794 -- Intercepted letters to the Duke of Mirepoix, 1756 -- Letters of Stephen Higginson, 1783-1804 -- Diary of Edward Hooker, 1805-1808 -- Selections from the Draper Collection in the possession of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Public documents of early congresses -- List of books relating to American in the Register of the London Company of Stationers from 1562 to 1638 -- An essay toward a bibliography of Leopold von Ranke.
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