"After the Chesapeake incident, Jefferson lost the only chance of declaring war against Great Britain, when such a war…"

"A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and…"

"On her first voyage, the Columbia had solved the riddle of the China trade. On her second, empire followed in the wake."

"Challenging is the note of freedom that still rings out from the Harvard Yard, into a world by no means so eager to h…"

"Exploring American History has been a very absorbing and exciting business now for three quarters of a century. Thous…"

"Even the earliest colonial historians, like William Bradford and Robert Beverley, knew that; they put conscious art i…"

"And in this flight of history from literature the public was left behind. American history became a bore to the reade…"

"Theodore Roosevelt in his presidential address before the American Historical Association in 1912 made a ringing plea…"

"And although American historians cannot hope, as Theodore Roosevelt did, to “watch the nearing chariots of the champi…"

"He Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exulta…"