ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF

UNITED STATES HISTORY

FROM 458 A.D. TO 1912

NEW EDITION. ENTIRELY REVISED AND ENLARGED

BENSON

SOMETIME EDITOR OF

BASED UPON THE PLAN OF

JOHN LOSSING, LL.D.

THE PICTORIAL

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL RECORD" AND AUTHOR OF
FIELD-BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION" THE PICTORIAL FIELD-BOOK OF THE WAR OF 1812" ETC.

WITH SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS

COVERING EVERY PHASE OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
BY EMINENT AUTHORITIES, INCLUDING

JOHN FISKE

THE AMERICAN HISTORIAN

WOODROW WILSON, Ph.D., LL.D.

FORMER PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

WM. R. HARPER, Ph.D., LL.D., D.D. GOLDWIN SMITH, D.C.L., LL.D.

PRESIDENT OF THE UNIV. OF CHICAGO

ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, Ph.D.

PROF. OF HISTORY AT HARVARD

PROF. OF HISTORY UNIV. OF TORONTO

MOSES COIT TYLER, LL.D.

PROF. OF HISTORY AT CORNELL

ALFRED T. MAHAN, D.C.L.,LL.D. EDWARD G. BOURNE, Ph.D.

ADMIRAL UNITED STATES NAVY

JOHN FRYER, A.M., LL.D.

PROF. OF LIT. AT UNIV. OF CALIF.

WM. T. HARRIS, Ph.D., LL.D.

U. S. COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

PROF. OF HISTORY AT YALE

R. J. H. GOTTHEIL, Ph.D.

PROF. SEMITIC LANGUAGES, COLUMBIA

JOHN B. MOORE

PROF. INTERN'L LAW, COLUMBIA

ETC., ETC., ETC.

WITH A PREFACE ON THE STUDY OF AMERICAN HISTORY BY

WOODROW WILSON, PH.D., LL.D.

AUTHOR OF

"A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE" ETC.

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COMPLETE IN TEN VOLUMES.

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