Historical essays
1909
Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Partly reprinted from various periodicals History.--Concerning the writing of history.--The profession of historian.--Newspapers as historical sources.--Speech prepared for the commencement dinner at Harvard University, June 26, 1901.--Edward Gibbon.--Samuel Rawson Gardiner.--William E.H. Lecky.--Sir Spencer Walpole.--John Richard Green.--Edward L. Pierce.--Jacob D. Cox.--Edward Gaylord Bourne.--The presidential office.--A review of President Hayes's administration.--Edwin Laurence Godkin.--Who burned Columbia?--A new estimate of Cromwell
