Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Connecticut's Part in the Federal Constitution
During the past twenty years, however, the interest in American history has been at once increasing and growing enlightened. Every year finds a greater number of people directing their attention to the subject and directing it in a more intelligent way. Twenty years ago the Johns Hopkins University set the example of publishing a monthly seriesof pamphlets setting forth the results of special research upon topics that had either escaped attention or been very inadequately treated. One paper would discuss the functions of constables in New England in the early days; another would inquire into the causes of the piracy that infested our coasts at the end of the 17th century another would make the history of town and county government in Illinois as absorbing as a novel another would treat of old Maryland manors, another of the in?uence of Quakers upon anti slavery sentiment in North Carolina, and so on. Many of the writers of these papers, trained in the best methods of historical study, have become professors of history in our colleges from one end of the Union to the other and are sowing good seed where they go while other colleges have begun to follow the example thus set. From Harvard and Columbia and the Universities of Wisconsin and Nebraska come especially notable contributions to our study each year. In Kentucky a Filson Club investigates the early over?ow of our population across the Alleghanies; in Mil waukee a Parkman Club discusses questions raised by the books of that great writer, while books long forgotten or never before printed are now made generally accessible. Thus the Putnams of New York are bringing out ably edited sets of the writings of the men who founded this republic. Thus Dr. Cones has clothed with fresh life the journals and letters of the great explorers who opened up our Pacific country, while a crowning achievement has been the publication in Cleveland, Ohio, of the seventy-three volumes of Jesuit Relations written during two centuries by missionaries in North America to their superiors in France or Italy. Such things speak eloquently of the change that has come over us. They show that while we can still draw lessons from the Roman Forum and the Frankish field-of-march, we have awakened to the fact that the New England town meeting also has its historic lessons.
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