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The American Crisis Biographies

Edited by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph.D. With the counsel and advice of Professor John B. McMaster, of the University of Pennsylvania.

Each 12mo, cloth, with frontispiece portrait. Price $1.25 net; by mail, $1.37.

These biographies will constitute a complete and comprehensive history of the great American sectional struggle in the form of readable and authoritative biography. The editor has enlisted the co-operation of many competent writers, as will be noted from the list given below. An interesting feature of the undertaking is that the series is to be impartial, Southern writers having been assigned to Southern subjects and Northern writers to Northern subjects, but all will belong to the younger generation of writers, thus assuring freedom from any suspicion of war-time prejudice. The Civil War will not be treated as a rebellion, but as the great event in the history of our nation, which, after forty years, it is now clearly recognized to have been.

Now ready:

=Abraham Lincoln.= By ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER. =Thomas H. Benton.= By JOSEPH M. ROGERS. =David G. Farragut.= By JOHN R. SPEARS. =William T. Sherman.= By EDWARD ROBINS. =Frederick Douglass.= By BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. =Judah P. Benjamin.= By PIERCE BUTLER. =Robert E. Lee.= By PHILIP ALEXANDER BRUCE. =Jefferson Davis.= By PROF. W. E. DODD. =Alexander H. Stephens.= By LOUIS PENDLETON. =John C. Calhoun.= By GAILLARD HUNT. =“Stonewall” Jackson.= By HENRY ALEXANDER WHITE. =John Brown.= By W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS.

In preparation:

=Daniel Webster.= By PROF. C. H. VAN TYNE. =William Lloyd Garrison.= By LINDSAY SWIFT. =Charles Sumner.= By Prof. GEORGE H. HAYNES. =William H. Seward.= By EDWARD EVERETT HALE, Jr. =Stephen A. Douglas.= By PROF. HENRY PARKER WILLIS. =Thaddeus Stevens.= By PROF. J. A. WOODBURN. =Andrew Johnson.= By PROF. WALTER L. FLEMING. =Henry Clay.= By THOMAS H. CLAY. =Ulysses S. Grant.= By PROF. FRANKLIN S. EDMONDS. =Edwin M. Stanton.= By EDWIN S. CORWIN. =Jay Cooke.= By ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER.

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