discrimination and selection and to compare the different values of official and private sources, intimate diaries and public utterances, chronicles and records, diplomatic correspondence and periodical literature, popular legends and historical science. Finally, we need to study American history in the interests alike of humanity and the humanities, Nihil humanum a me alienum puto was the sentiment of a classical humanist. It can hardly be discarded by the most modern of the humanities; and remoteness itself grows remote when battles in France and counsels in London hang upon the arbitrament of those whom we exile from the sphere of our humaner studies. We cannot long continue to think we comprehend the course of modern history without reference to its American factors. If we boast of history as a science, we should recollect that science knows no frontiers; and if Americans ceased to be provincials when they forswore their isolation, we may pay a similar compliment to ourselves when we include American history within the scope of our understanding. Alabama, the, 194, 196-8, 237, Aquinas, St. Thomas, 19, 288 260-2 Alaska, 21., 127, 181, 194, 199 Alleghanies, the, 23, 93, 129, 132, 137, 139, 144, 165 101, 106-7, 121-2, 190-1, Alvord, Prof. Clarence W., vi, Assassination, political, 192, "Asylum for mankind," 86, 88, Austin, John, 45n., 87, 286 BABCOCK, Orville E., 194 Balance of Power, 123, 125, 157, 219, 253 Boncour, M. Paul, 204 Botany Bay, 265 Bourbons, the, 52, 85, 93, 127, Brown, John, 1637. Bryan, William Jennings, 140 Buchanan, President James, 129, Baldwin, Prof. James Fosdick, Bulwer-Clayton treaty, 182 279 Balfour, Lord, vi Ballot, the, 61, 146, 284 - National v. States, 139-41 Beer, George Louis, 271, 279 "Bill of abominations," the, 142 "Black and Tan," 285 Blackstone's Commentaries, 10, Blaine, Secretary James Gilles- Blake, Admiral Robert, 12 Blockade, 47, 117, 185, 260 104n. Bolivar, Simon, 124 Burke, Edmund, 10, 56, 70-1, Burr, Aaron, 131 CABINET (U.S.A.), 190, 249-50 Calhoun, John Caldwell, 131, 143, 150, 153, 162, 230 116-17, 120, 124-6, 166, 181, Capital and debt, 74, 138-9, 140 and labour, 74, 138-9, 141-2 Carolinas, the, 13, 131, 223 Catholicism, 121, 240 |