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Bibliography

 

VERY EARLY in the process of taking down information, and dividing it by year in American history – on or about December 7, 2021, I managed to erase my bibliography. Since I throw most paperbacks away, after taking notes, I am unable to supply sources for every quote. 

Otherwise, if I follow a quote or section of material with the notation: (10/21-23), it means the material is from BOOK 10, pp. 21-23. Books are numbered with no rhyme nor reason, as I finished with them. 

I also supply links to all newspaper and magazine articles, and old books, which can be found online. 

In some rare cases, I have clippings or parts of stories I saved long ago, and cannot identify the source. I mark those accordingly.

 

Finally, where you see: 

NOTE TO TEACHERS: I have suggested ideas I believe might work in a classroom. Many I used myself, during 33 years in teaching. For example, I realized, the last time I visited California, that the tallest redwood trees – which reach 360 feet – are exactly as tall as a football field, including both endzones, stood up on end. So, you could use this picture in your classroom, to make that point. Almost all pictures included in my posts are out of copyright, or I took them myself. 

Feel free to use any you want. 

My wife with the redwood.

All pictures in my blogs are free for use by teachers,
unless marked as from the internet.

 

Ammon, Harry, James Monroe: The Quest for American Identity (McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y.: 1971) BOOK 24 

Andrews, E. Benjamin, History of the United States, Vol. II, Vol. IV (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, N.Y.: 1925) BOOK 2 (II) and BOOK 4 (IV) 

Andrews, E. Benjamin, The History of the Last Quarter-Century om the United States, 1870-1895 Vol. I (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, N.Y.: 1896) BOOK 11 

Bosworth, Allan R., America’ Concentration Camps (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, N.Y.: 1967) BOOK 500 

Bowen, Ezra, ed. This Fabulous Century, 1930 to 1940 (Time-Life Books, New York, N.Y.: 1969) BOOK 1129 

Bowers, Claude G., The Tragic Era: The Revolution after Lincoln (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts: 1929, 1957) BOOK 105 

(Bowers’ book is execrable: Racism masquerading as history.)

 

Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, New York: 1970) BOOK 107

 Cain, Ella M., The Story of Bodie (Fearon Publishers, San Francisco, California: 1956) BOOK 59 

Carson, W.E., Mexico: The Wonderland of the South (Macmillan Company, New York, New York: 1914) BOOK 16 

 

Bodie, California - ghost town.

Carter, Paul A., editor, The Uncertain World of Normalcy: The 1920s (Jerome S. Ozer, Publisher Inc., New York, New York: 1971) BOOK 155 

Catton, Bruce, A Stillness at Appomattox BOOK 1122 

Catton, Bruce, Mr. Lincoln’s Army (Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York: 1951) BOOK 62 

Catton, Bruce, Glory Road (Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York: 1952) BOOK 63 

 

Museum at Gettysburg.

Coffin, Charles, Building a Nation (1882) BOOK 72 

Coe, Fanny E., Makers of the Nation (1914) BOOK 73 

Daniels, Roger, Concentration Camps USA: Japanese Americans and World War II (The Dryden Press, Hinsdale, Illinois: 1971) BOOK 104 

The copyright to Daniels’ book was held by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

 

Depew, Chauncey M., My Memories of Eighty Years (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, N.Y.: 1923) BOOK 123 

DeVoto, Bernard, The Year of Decision: 1846 (Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1943) BOOK 5 

Douglas, Henry Kyd, I Rode With Stonewall (Fawcett Publications, Inc., Greenwich, Conn.: 1961) BOOK 20 

Earle, Alice Morse, Child Life in Colonial Days (The Macmillan Company, New York, N.Y.: 1915) BOOK 226 

Ellis, Edward, The Youth’s History of the United States (1893) BOOK 32 

Ellis, Edward S., Library of American History (The Charles Barrett Co.: 1905) Last copyright listed is for The Jones Brothers, Publishing Co. BOOK 33 

Empey, Guy, First Call: Guide Posts to Berlin (G.P. Putnam’s Sons: New York, N.Y.: 1918) BOOK 18 

Finley, Ruth E., The Lady of Godey’s: Sarah Joseph Hale (J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, Pa.: 1931) BOOK 113 

Franklin, Penelope, Private Pages: Diaries of American Women 1830s – 1970s (Ballantine Books, New York, New York 1986) BOOK 25 

Freeman, Douglas Southall, Lee, abridged by Richard Harwell, (Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, New York: 1961, 1991) BOOK 22 

Friendly, Fred, Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control (Random House, New York, N.Y.: 1967) BOOK 34 

Goldman, Eric F., The Crucial Decade – And After: America, 1946-1960, (notes from my old paperback edition; will have to look for the copyright information) BOOK 1 

Halberstam, David, The Best and the Brightest (Random House, New York, N.Y.: 1969, 1971) BOOK 491 

Halle, Louis J., The Cold War as History (Harper & Row, New York, N.Y.: 1975) BOOK 75 

Halleck, Reuben Post, History of American Literature (American Book Company, Cincinnati, Ohio: 1911) BOOK 30 

Handlin, Oscar, Boston’s Immigrants: A Study in Acculturations (Atheneum, New York, N.Y.: 1974) BOOK 21 

Hartwell, E.C., Story Hour Readings: Fourth Year (American Book Company, Cincinnati, Ohio: 1921) BOOK 35 

The Irish with their Catholic faith were seen as a threat.
Picture not in blogger's possession.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlett Letter and Selected Tales, edited by Thomas E. Connolly (Penguin Books, New York, New York: 1970) BOOK 7 

Hendricks, Mrs. Thomas A., A Popular History of Indiana (The Indianapolis Sentinel Co., Indianapolis, Indiana: 1891) BOOK 91 

Holley, Marietta, Samantha Among the Brethren (Funk & Wagnalls, New York, New York: 1890) BOOK 15 

Keesing’s Research Report, Race Relations in the USA, 1954-1968 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, New York: 1970) BOOK 27 

Lancaster, Bruce and Plumb, J. H., The American Heritage Book of the Revolution (Dell Publishing, New York, N.Y.: 1958) BOOK 48 

Least Heat Moon, William, Blue Highways (Little, Brown and Company: Boston, 1982) BOOK 101 

Least Heat Moon, William, PrairyErth (Houghton Mifflin: Boston, Massachusetts, 1991) BOOK 100 

Lief, Alfred, Harvey Firestone: Free Man of Enterprise (McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, New York: 1951) BOOK 23 

Madison, James, Notes of the Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 (W.W. Norton and Company, New York, N.Y.: 1987) BOOK 87 

 

Madison and the others had a good plan for government.

McCullough, David, Mornings on Horseback (Simon and Schuster, New York, New York: 1981) BOOK 112

McMaster, John Bach, A Brief History of the United States (American Book Company, New York, New York: 1907) BOOK 97 

McLaughlin, Andrew; A History of the American Nation (1911) BOOK 56 

Mencken, H. L., The Vintage Mencken (gathered by Alistair Cooke) (Vintage Books, New York, New York: 1956) BOOK 49 

Miller, John C., The First Frontier: Life in Colonial America (Dell Publishing, Laurel Edition: New York, N.Y.: 1975) BOOK 300 

Morris, Charles, The Greater Republic (John C. Winston & Co.: Philadelphia, 1899) BOOK 99 

Morrison, Toni, Beloved (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York: 1987) BOOK 57 

Murphy, Elizabeth Taft (editor: Maryjane Hooper Tonn). I Remember. Do You? A Nostalgic Look at Yesterday: From the Twenties – to the Fifties (Ideals Publishing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 1973) BOOK 301 

Northrup, Henry Davenport, Life and Deeds of General Sherman: Including the Story of His March to the Sea (J. H. Moore & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.: 1891) BOOK 36 

Norton, Mary Beth, Founding Mothers and Fathers (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, N.Y.: 1996) BOOK 47 

O’Brien, Tim, The Things They Carried (Penguin Books, New York, New York: 1990) BOOK 46 

O’Rourke, P.J., Parliament of Whores (Vintage Books, New York, New York: 1991) BOOK 88 

Post, C. C., Driven from Sea to Sea: Just a Campin’ (J.E. Downey & Co., Chicago, Ill.: 1884) BOOK 37 

Ridpath, John Clark, various books, somewhat jumbled in my notes, including Ridpath’s History of the World, Vol. I, Vol. VII, Vol. VIII, Vol. IX (Jones Brothers, Cincinnati, Ohio: 1907); The Great Races of Mankind (not sure of volume or date of publication), With the World’s People (Jones Brothers, Cincinnati, Ohio: 1912) BOOK 38 

Ridpath, John Clark, People’s History of the United States (Historical Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1895) BOOK 1219 

Roosevelt, Theodore, The Strenuous Life (Century Company, New York, New York: 1904) BOOK 40

 Sadlier, Sadlier’s Excelsior Studies in the History of the United States for Schools (New York, New York: William H. Sadlier: 1879 and 1896 by William H. Sadlier; 1907 and 1910 by Annie M. Sadlier) BOOK 19 

Singletary, Otis A., The Mexican War (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, London: 1960) BOOK 111

Smith, Paige, Daughters of the Promised Land (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Mass.: 1970) BOOK 45 

Spofford, Harriet Prescott, Stepping-Stones to Happiness (The Christian Herald, New York, N.Y.: 1897) BOOK 39 

Standing Bear, Luther, My People the Sioux (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 1928 edition, copied) BOOK 110

Stone, I. F., The Truman Era (Random House, New York, New York: 1953) BOOK 114

Sullivan, Robert (managing editor), The 1960s (Life Books, New York, New York: 2014) BOOK 60

 

A little 60's style.

Tarkington, Booth, Seventeen (Grosset & Dunlap, New York, New York: 1915, 1916) BOOK 17 

Taylor, James Wickes, The Diary of James Wickes Taylor, ed. James Taylor Dunn (The Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio: 1950) BOOK 102 

Taylor, William O., With Custer on the Little Big Horn (Penguin Books USA: New York, New York, 1996) BOOK 76 

Terkel, Studs, The Good War ( New York, New York, Pantheon Books:1984) BOOK 103 

Thayer, William M., Marvels of the New West (Henry Bill, Norwich, Connecticut: 1890) BOOK 6 

Trollope, Anthony, North America (Penguin Classics, paperback: 1992) BOOK 106 

(This book can also be found online.)

 Van Loon, Hendrik, America (Tudor Publishing Co.: 1927) BOOK 124 

Walworth, Arthur, Woodrow Wilson (Penguin Books or Pelican Books, Baltimore, Maryland, 1969) BOOK 10 

Whitlock, Brand, Her Infinite Variety (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Indiana: 1904) BOOK 9 

Whittier, John Greenleaf, The Complete Poetical Works (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Cambridge, Mass: 1892)  BOOK 31 

Wolfskill, George, Happy Days Are Here Again! (Dryden Press, Hinsdale, Illinois: 1974) BOOK 1127    

1765

 

__________

 

“The people have rights antecedent to all earthly government.”

 

John Adams

__________ 

IN THIS CRITICAL YEAR, John Adams lays out a few of his key ideas on government, and human rights. 

    Monarchy, he correctly notes, was once the rule: 

In the earliest ages of the world, absolute monarchy seems to have been the universal form of government. Kings, and a few of their great counsellors and captains, exercised a cruel tyranny over the people, who held a rank in the scale of intelligence, in those days, but little higher than the camels and elephants that carried them and their engines to war.

 

    By what causes it was brought to pass, that the people in the middle ages became more intelligent in general, would not, perhaps, be possible in these days to discover. But the fact is certain; and wherever a general knowledge and sensibility have prevailed among the people, arbitrary government and every kind of oppression have lessened and disappeared in proportion. …

 

    Adams notes that it has always been the policy of “the princes and nobles of the earth, by every species of fraud and violence to shake off all the limitations of their power” whereas “the common people” in all ages have dreamed of “independency,” and tried in all ways to confine “the power of the great within the limits of equity and reason.”

 

    Unfortunately,

 

    The poor people, it is true, have been much less successful than the great. They have seldom found either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength; ignorant as they were of arts and letters, they have seldom been able to frame and support a regular opposition. This, however, has been known by the great to be the temper of mankind; and they have accordingly labored, in all ages, to wrest from the populace, as they are contemptuously called, the knowledge of their rights and wrongs, and the power to assert the former or redress the latter. I say RIGHTS, for such they have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all earthly government,  – Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws – Rights, derived from the great Legislator of the universe.

 

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THE RICHEST Virginia planters are living well. According to one observer, they loved their fine horses and carriages, and “they all drive Six horses, and travel generally from 8 to 9 Miles an hour – going frequently Sixty Miles to dinner.” Hospitality in the region, he noted, “is everywhere practised.” 

    As for the ladies: “Their Women make excellent Wives, and are in general great Breeders. It is much the fashion to Marry young and what is remarkable in a Stay I have made of near a Month in the province – I have not heard of one unhappy couple.” (300/99)

 

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“The British officials blundered magnificently.” 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN landed in England a few months before the Stamp Act… “But,” he wrote, “I could no more hinder the passage of the bill than I could prevent the sun from setting.” (Coe, Makers of the Nation)

March 22: The Act is passed – word does not reach the Colonies for several weeks, of course. 

If a man bought land, the deed of the purchase must bear a stamp. Notes, mortgages, marriage certificates – in fact all legal papers – were worthless without the stamp. These same stamps were sold by stamp officers, and the money they collected in this way belonged to Great Britain. (Coe, Makers of the Nation)

 

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June 4: We forget that King George III was a young man at this time. He turns 27 on this day.

 

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VAN LOON also notes the ineptitude of the British leadership, saying, 

    Fortunately for the cause of free America the British officials blundered magnificently and by a series of colossal errors forced the seaboard and the mountains to make common cause and to forget temporarily at least those economic differences which made a Yankee banker almost as unpopular in an agricultural community as one of His Majesty’s duly appointed and ordained “gougers” and “stamp collectors.” (124/173)

 

    He adds that revolutions are run in this way:

    Ten per cent  of the people are willing to hang for their principles. 

    Ten per cent are willing to hang but are not particularly happy at the prospect and therefore wish to know if the purpose for which they are fighting cannot be achieved in some less violent fashion. 

   Forty per cent (who call themselves “practical” men) sit on the fence until they know which side is going to win, when they join the army of the victors.

 

    That makes a total of sixty per cent. The other forty per cent believe in “law and order” at all costs and either execute their former neighbors if those happen to be unsuccessful or themselves get hanged if it is proved that they have guessed wrong.  (124/173-174) 

 

    With demands for a boycott of English goods, many businesses had a difficult decision to make. 

    There still were a good many merchants who intended to remain loyal to the mother country and who thought it their good right to deal how and where and with whom it best pleased them. These were now delivered to the mercies of lynch law. Their stores were broken into. Their goods were destroyed. Quite frequently they themselves were tarred and feathered and driven away from the place of their birth by mixed mobs of patriots and hoodlums. (124/179)

 

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ANDREW JACKSON’S parents leave Ireland and settle in North Carolina. The future president is born two years later.

 

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MCMASTER lays out the provisions of the Stamp Act:

    The Stamp Act applied not only to the thirteen colonies, but also to Canada, Florida, and the West Indies, and was to take effect on and after November 1, 1765.

 

    Every piece of vellum or paper on which was written any legal document for use in any court was to be charged with a stamp duty of from three pence to ten pounds.

 

    Many kinds of documents not used in court, as newspapers, almanacs, etc., were to be written or printed only on stamped paper made in England and sold at prices fixed by law. The money raised by the stamp tax was not to be taken to Great Britain, but was to be spent in the colonies in the purchase of food and supplies for the troops. (97/149)

 

    Patrick Henry was born in Virginia in 1736. As a youth he was dull and indolent and gave no sign of coming greatness. After two failures as a storekeeper and one as a farmer he turned in desperation to law, read a few books, and with difficulty passed the examination necessary for admittance to the bar. Henry had now found his true vocation. Business came to him, and one day in 1763 he argued the weak (but popular) side of a case with such eloquence that he carried court and jury with him, and it is said he was carried out of the courthouse on the shoulders of the people. He was now famous, and in 1765 was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses to represent the county in which he had lived, just in time to take part in the proceedings on the Stamp Act. [His greatest moment came when he moved the resolutions be adopted and supported them] in a fiery and eloquent speech, of which one passage has been preserved. Recalling the fate of tyrants of other times, he exclaimed, “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles I his Cromwell, and George III – .” “Treason! treason!” shouted the speaker. “Treason! treason!” shouted the members. To which Henry answered, “and George III may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.” (97/150-151)

 

    Across the colonies, the stamp agents ran into trouble. The colonists rose in indignation. 

    They therefore forced the agents to resign their commissions, and when the tea ships arrived, took possession of them. At Philadelphia the ships were sent back to London. At Charleston the tea was landed and stored for three years and then seized and sold by the state of South Carolina. At Annapolis the people forced the owner of a tea ship to go on board and set fire to his ship; vessel and cargo were thus consumed. At Boston the people wish the tea sent back to London, and when the authorities refused to allow this, a party of men disguised as Indians boarded the ships and threw the tea into the water. (97/156)

 

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STAMPED PAPER: “The prepared paper had to be paid for in specie, a hardship indeed in a community where lawsuits were very common, and whose entire solid coin would not have sufficed to pay the revenue for a single year.” “Another flagrant feature of the act was the provision that violators of it should be tried without a jury, before a judge whose only pay came from his own condemnations.” (2/38-39)

 

    Reaction was fierce:

 

    In Portsmouth, N. H., the newspaper came out in mourning, and an effigy of the Goddess of Liberty was carried to the grave. The Connecticut legislature ordered a day of fasting and prayer kept, and an inventory of powder and ball taken. In New York a bonfire was made of the stamps in the public square. The bells in Charleston, S. C., were tolled, and the flags on the ships in the harbor hung at half-mast. The colonists entered into agreements to buy no goods from England until the act was repealed. Even mourning clothes, since they must be imported, were not to be worn, and lamb’s flesh was abjured that more wool might be raised for home manufacture. England’s colonial trade fell off so alarmingly in consequence that Manchester manufactures petitioned Parliament to repeal the act, asserting that nine-tenths of their workmen were idle.

 

October: Nine colonies called the Stamp Act Congress “and adopted a declaration of rights, asserting that England had no right to tax them without their consent.”  (2/39-40)

 

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THE STREETS of Philadelphia are by this time “paved with brick and illuminated by lamps that were lit every night except when the moon shone.” A night watch had been instituted “to preserve order, and call out the time of night and the state of the weather.” There was also a thirty-man volunteer fire department organized by Benjamin Franklin. (300/124)

 

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THE POLEMICIST Samuel Adams will acquire the title of “Father of the American Revolution.” 

    As for his interest in earlier examples of free governments, a reviewer for a new book on Sam Adams writes, 

    Adams wrote for other publications, providing stentorian commentary on his own fake news, under a charming variety of classical pseudonyms: Candidus, Vindex, Populus, Valerius Poplicola. The comic luxuriance of Roman references should not blind us to the significance of these constant appeals to the Roman Republic and to classical virtue. For the astonishing truth was that hardly anyone in two thousand years had actually seen what a republic or a democracy looked like, or how it might act in the world. The patriots referred to Rome not simply because they were classically educated but because – the marginal cases of Switzerland and Venice aside – it was the last famous, functional republic to look back on. (The Cromwellian Commonwealth, which scarcely managed to outlive its charismatic founder, though occasionally invoked, largely served as a cautionary tale.)

 

   At one point, Adams argued that Americans could “no more be judged by a Member of Parliament than if they liv’d in the Moon.” 

    The reviewer, Adam Gopnik, says: “The patriots, however flawed, really were driven by ideas, and the ideas they were driven by were mainly good ones.” 

   He also points out, correctly, that judging flawed historical figures correctly can require a delicate balance. “They need not be eliminated from study or admiration – their contributions are too important, and history, anyway, is not a book of good-conduct awards. But it’s not wrong to censure them retrospectively.”

Samuel Adams - picture from the internet.