of the UNITED STATES BY. WILLIAM C. DOUB EX-SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS FOR KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA "TEACHERS' MANUAL AND COURSE OF STUDY IN HISTORY AND CIVICS," ETC. SOUTHEAST PUBLISHING COMPANY NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF THE GRADUATE STOL OF EDUCATION COPYRIGHT, 1905 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1906 BY DOUB & COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1909 BY DOUB & COMPANY All Rights Reserved Electrotyped and Printed June, 1905. Reprinted July, September, 1905; PREFACE DURING recent years there has been much written and much said about making the study of history and civics in the elementary schools something more than committing to memory dates, facts and events. Many newspapers and educational journals and many of those educators who talk publicly on school questions have criticised severely the results secured from the time devoted to history and civics in the grammar schools. The method used and the lack of proper preparation on the part of the teacher have been held responsible for the poor results secured in these subjects. It has been customary to hold the teacher responsible for the method used and for her poor preparation, and thus to place the entire blame on her. Many have promptly and justly replied that they cannot be expected to expend from two to three thousand dollars in securing a higher education for the purpose of receiving the small salaries paid in the elementary schools. They have also replied-and this is even more to the point-that not being specialists in history and civics, they cannot, with any degree of success, teach these subjects by the topical method when every grammar school history text-book in print adopts, almost entirely, the cutand-dried chronological-event method. In relation to all these conditions, special attention is called to the fact that in this book the topical treatment is used without any reserve whatever. No teacher can use this book as a text-book and use any other than the topical method, and no pupil can study this book without becoming interested in the real spirit of our history and having cultivated in him the desire to perform to the best of his ability the duties of American citizenship. iii |