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Title: Historical Essays

Author: James Ford Rhodes

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HISTORICAL ESSAYS

BY
JAMES FORD RHODES, LL.D., D.Litt.

Author of the _History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850
to the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877_

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1909

_All rights reserved_

Copyright, 1909,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published December, 1909.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PREFACE

In offering to the public this volume of Essays, all but two of which
have been read at various places on different occasions, I am aware that
there is some repetition in ideas and illustrations, but, as the dates
of their delivery and previous publication are indicated, I am letting
them stand substantially as they were written and delivered.

I am indebted to my son, Daniel P. Rhodes, for a literary revision of
these Essays; and I have to thank the editors of the _Atlantic Monthly_,
of _Scribner's Magazine_, and of the _Century Magazine_ for leave to
reprint the articles which have already appeared in their periodicals.

Boston, November, 1909.

CONTENTS

I. History 1
President's Inaugural Address, American Historical
Association, Boston, December 27, 1899; printed in the
_Atlantic Monthly_ of February, 1900.

II. Concerning the Writing of History 25
Address delivered at the Meeting of the American
Historical Association in Detroit, December, 1900.

III. The Profession of Historian 47
Lecture read before the History Club of Harvard
University, April 27, 1908, and at Yale, Columbi