Concise Dictionary Of American History

Very Large Size Book."During the last few decades, our history has been almost completely rewritten," the late James Truslow Adams noted in the preface to the Dictionary of American History, the last of his principal works. "New facts have been discovered; new interests have developed. A generation ago, historians had done the merest spade work in many departments of our national life. They were still chiefly concerned with political and military events. Today, our whole culture is their province and the public which read history has widened with the widening of the historians' vision. Until now the facts of the new history have not been readily available. They are scattered through thousands of volumes of general history or special studies. There has been an increasingly insistent demand for some one source to which an inquirer might go to find, and quickly, what he wishes to know as to specific facts, events, trends, or policies in our American past. It is this need which the Dictionary of American History is intended to fill." Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.…