Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - Electronic journals |
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... interest of American history and of history in America . Said association is authorized to hold real and personal estate in the District of Columbia so far only as may be necessary to its lawful ends to an amount not exceeding five ...
... interest of American history and of history in America . Said association is authorized to hold real and personal estate in the District of Columbia so far only as may be necessary to its lawful ends to an amount not exceeding five ...
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... interest , and are an important addition to the literature of the French in America during the Revolutionary War . The evening session on Saturday began promptly at 8 o'clock at the Columbian University , with the Hon . John Jay , of ...
... interest , and are an important addition to the literature of the French in America during the Revolutionary War . The evening session on Saturday began promptly at 8 o'clock at the Columbian University , with the Hon . John Jay , of ...
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... interest of self - government for Kentucky . The history of the time is one of constant turmoil . Threats of violent separation , both from Virginia and the Union , were frequent ; and yet not one action of an unconstitutional character ...
... interest of self - government for Kentucky . The history of the time is one of constant turmoil . Threats of violent separation , both from Virginia and the Union , were frequent ; and yet not one action of an unconstitutional character ...
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... interest . Much material for a study of the Confederate Government was destroyed dur- ing the war , and much that has been preserved is not yet ac- cessible . We have , however , a full series of statutes , about one hundred and fifty ...
... interest . Much material for a study of the Confederate Government was destroyed dur- ing the war , and much that has been preserved is not yet ac- cessible . We have , however , a full series of statutes , about one hundred and fifty ...
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... interest- ing paper on " The Relations of History to Ethnology , " by Prof. O. T. Mason , of the National Museum . He showed that the student of human culture is constantly a debtor to the historian . To illustrate this idea he spoke of ...
... interest- ing paper on " The Relations of History to Ethnology , " by Prof. O. T. Mason , of the National Museum . He showed that the student of human culture is constantly a debtor to the historian . To illustrate this idea he spoke of ...
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Academy Adams Address delivered ALLEN American Antiquarian Society American Historical Association American History ANDREW DICKSON Annual Antiquarian Society April August BANCROFT BIGELOW Biographical Bishop of Iowa Boston Cambridge CHARLES CARD CHARLES COLCOCK CHARLES HENRY Charles Henry Hart Chicago Church City College Colony Congress copies printed December Durrett Edition Education Edward Encyclopędia February Fisheries G. P. Putnam's Sons Genealogical GEORGE BROWN Georgia Government GREEN HART HERBERT BAXTER illustrated Institution James January Jefferson JOHN FLETCHER JOHN WATTS John Wilson Johns Hopkins University JONES Journal July June Justin Winsor Lamb Library London Magazine of American Magazine of Western maps March MARTHA Massachusetts Historical Society Memoir Monthly National November October Ohio paper PAUL LEICESTER PEYSTER Philadelphia plates portrait President Privately printed Proceedings Professor published Report Reprinted REUBEN ROBERT CHARLES SAMUEL ABBOTT scientific September SMITH Smithsonian tion United Virginia Washington WHEILDON WILLIAM FRANCIS William Stevens Perry Winthrop York
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Page 146 - State may be entitled under the provisions of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share; said scrip to be sold by said States and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever...
Page 58 - ... to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings ; sincerity, good humor, and all social affections, and generous sentiments among the people.
Page 146 - ... there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the States in which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre to which said State may be entitled under the provisions...
Page 147 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe in order to.
Page 58 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them...
Page 149 - It shall be the duty of each of said stations, annually, on or before the first day of February, to make to the governor of the State or Territory in which it is located a full and detailed report of its operations, including a statement of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report shall be sent to each of said stations, to the said Commissioner of Agriculture, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
Page 100 - Among the first, perhaps the very first instrument for the improvement of the condition of men, is knowledge ; and to the acquisition of much of the knowledge adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments of human life, public institutions and seminaries of learning are essential.