Side Lights On American History Vol 1 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Side Lights on American History, Vol. 1 History can be presented to us only by means of pictures, reproductions of that which we cannot directly witness. If you study a city from photographs, the general bird's-eye view is necessary to give you the relative size and location Of things; but such a View is not enough. You must have pictures, on a larger scale, Of a busy street, a mammoth office building, a public park, the interior of a workshop, and the like. The ordinary school history furnishes the bird's-eye view of our coun try's origin and growth; the present volume aims to give a more detailed account - a pic ture on a larger scale - Of some Of the chief events in our history. It is intended not to replace the text-book, but to supplement it. The text-book gives the succession of events and, in some measure, their relative importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.