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COLONIAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL.

EDITED BY

ALBERT BUSHNELL HART and EDWARD CHANNING,

OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

These Leaflets are designed to promote the scientific method of studying history from its documents, and furnish in convenient form and at a moderate price copies of original documents that have become famous in our colonial and constitutional history as the outcome of some important crisis, or as exponents of the theories underiying our form of government. Each Leaflet contains a brief historical introduction and bibliography to aid further investigation by the student.

SERIES OF 1892.

1.-The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel announcing his Discovery, with Extracts from his Journal,

2.-The Ostend Manifesto. 1854.

5.-Extracts from the Sagas describing the Voyages to Vinland. 4.-Extracts from Official Declarations of the United States embodying the Monroe Doctrine. 1789-1891.

5.-Documents illustrating the Territorial Development of the .United States. 1763-1769.

6.-Extracts from official Papers relating to the Bering Sea Controversy. 1790-1892.

SERIES OF 1893.

7.-The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England. 1643–1684.

8.-Exact Text of the Constitution of the United States. From the Original Manuscripts. 1787-1870.

9.-Documents describing the Voyage of John Cabot in 1497. 10.-Governor McDuffie's Message on the Slavery Question. 1835 11.-Jefferson's Proposed Instructions to the Virginia Delegates, 1774, and the Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence, 1776.

2.-Ordinances of Secession and other Documents..

1860-1861

13.-Coronado's Journey to New Mexico and the Great Plains. 1540-42.

14.-Plans of Union. 1696-1780.

15.-The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, with the Alien, Sedition and other Acta. 1798-1799.

16.-Documents illustrating the Territorial Development of the United States. 1584-1774.

17.-Documents relating to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. 1854. 18.-Lincoln's Inaugural and First Message to Congress. 1861. All the above numbers are now ready for delivery. Price, 10 cents per number.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

SERIES OF 1895.

19.-Extracts from the Navigation Laws. 1646-1700.

20.-The Articles of Confederation and Preliminary Documents.

1776-1781.

1765-1766.

21.-Documents relative to the Stamp Act. 22.-Documents illustrating State Land Claims and Cessions.

1776-1802.

23.-Extracts from the Dred Scott Decision.

1857.

24.-Documents relative to the Bank Controversy. 1829-1833.

The above six numbers will be issued bi-monthly in the months of January, March, May, July, September and November, 1895. Annual subscription, 60 cents. Price, per number, 10 cents.

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"These extracts from original documents, made by most competent hands, are intended to facilitate the study of American history in the original documents by those unable to reach large libraries, or by school classes without the time or ability to find and consult the State papers."—Book News,

"Designed to encourage the method of studying and teaching history by means of the original sources,”—Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science.

"These leaflets are valuable aids to the scientific study of history through its impor tant documents; State papers which have had a distinct influence on the conduct of the State being published in this form at a trifling cost."-Springfield Republican.

"They seem to me to be exactly what was needed."-C. V. Parsell, Prest., Clinton Liberal Institute, Fort Plain, N. Y.

"It seems to me that your History Leaflets ought to be in the hands of every progressive teacher of American History."—J. D. Dillingham, Principal of Schools, Tom's River, N. J.

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