United States

Powerful as economic forces were from 1865 to 1890, they did not alone determine the direction of American progress during those years.

Seldom, in times of peace, is the personality of a single individual so important as that of Theodore Roosevelt during the early years of the twentieth century. At the time of his accession to the presidency, he lacked a month of being forty-three years old, but the range of his experience in politics had been far beyond his age. In his early twenties, soon after leaving Harvard, he had entered the Assembly of the state of New York.

[The Period of Political Settlement.]

[An Era of Peace.]

[Andrew Jackson.]

[Slavery Inherited.]

[The Civil War.]

[Number of Presidents.]

[A Twofold Progress.]

by George Makepeace Towle

[English Literature.]

[Majority of Authors from New England.]