Massachusetts, Its Historians and Its History: An Object Lesson (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Charles Francis Adams

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0483123862 ISBN 13: 9780483123861

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Massachusetts, Its Historians and Its History<br/><br/>While occupied last winter on historical work in connection with a forthcoming publication of the prince society on antinomianism IN the colony OF massachusetts bay, 1636 — 1638, I found my self led into an investigation the results of which were, in character, generally radical and somewhat iconoclastic. As I went on I became curious to see how those results would impress a class of students just entering upon history as a study. You were kind enough to offer me, being an Over seer of the College, one of your classes to experiment on; and, as you remember, in April I occupied your desk for two morning hours. What I wished to say had to be greatly compressed to get it within the allotted time but my audience, I thought, took rather kindly to views, general and particular, which would hardly have been encouraged in the Cambridge of forty years ago....

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0483123862
• ISBN 13: 9780483123861
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120