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COMMON-SCHOOL HISTORY

OF

THE UNITED STATES;

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME.

BY

BENSON J. LOSSING.

ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS, AND OVER 200 OTHER ENGRAVINGS.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY MASON BROTHERS.

BOSTON MASON & HAMLIN. PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
CINCINNATI: SARGENT, WILSON & HINKLE,

1866.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

MASON BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

LOSSING'S HISTORIES OF THE UNITED STATES.

COMPLETE SERIES FOR ALL CLASSES.

LOSSING'S PICTORIAL PRIMARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES; 238 pages 12mo.

LOSSING'S COMMON-SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES;

Illustrated by Maps, and over 200 other Engravings. 378 pages 12mo. LOSSING'S PICTORIAL SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES; 374 pages large 12mo.

LOSSING'S ILLUSTRATED FAMILY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES; with a Frontispiece Illuminated in Colors. For District, School, and Family Libraries. 672 pages imperial octavo.

JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER,

50 Greene Street.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY

484/30

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

THIS book has been prepared in obedience to the earnest calls of educators to supply an acknowledged want in the Common Schools of the country, namely, a HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, containing the record of every important event, arranged in a manner, and expressed in phraseology that might convey to the mind of the pupil a clear and comprehensive knowledge of the subject, in as few words as possible.

The Author's Primary History of the United States, for beginners, and Pictorial History of the United States for Schools and Families, for the use of more advanced students, have met with a most gratifying reception from parents, teachers, and pupils, for many years. An intermediate History was wanted to make the series complete. To meet that want, this volume is offered.

The general arrangement and peculiar features of the other books are preserved in this. Numerous pictorial illustrations of the subject; maps showing the geographical positions of the most important events; numerous explanatory and illustrative footnotes, and a convenient and useful Concordance interwoven with them, are notable features which commend themselves specially to teachers as important helpers in the task of instruction.

Events during the last few years have impressed all thoughtful Americans with the importance of the possession, by every citizen, of a general knowledge of the letter and spirit of our National Constitution-the organic and supreme law of the land. That such knowledge may be taught in our Common Schools, and thereby be vividly and indelibly impressed upon the minds of the people, that Constitution, with numerous explanatory foot-notes, is made a part of this history.

The Supplement contains the Declaration of Independence, with copious historical notes; a biographical table of the Signers of the Declaration; brief sketches of the lives of the Presidents of the Republic, and a Chronological Table of events mentioned in this volume.

General reviewing questions, in addition to those at the foot of each page, are introduced at the close of the History. These will be found useful as tests of the thoroughness of the pupil's acquirements, and as helps for him in obtaining a comprehensive grasp of the subject.

The historical narrative includes an outline sketch, with copious notes, of the most prominent events of the Great Civil War in our country. It is brought down to as late a period as possible before printing the book.

With these remarks, the work is submitted to the public with a desire and hope that may be made an implement of usefulness in the work of popular education.

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