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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,606 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 462 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 416 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 286 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 260 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 254 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 242 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 230 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 218 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 166 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Interesting European news. (search)
Yankee civilization. It has been a constant boast of the North that it was a land of churches, schools and newspapers. New England has 4,042 churches; the Middle States, 9,714; the Northwestern States, 10,926. Maine has a larger proportion of schools than any other country in the world. In New England only one person over twenty years of age in every four hundred natives is unable to read and write. The Federal Government has granted over forty millions of acres of land for school purpNew England only one person over twenty years of age in every four hundred natives is unable to read and write. The Federal Government has granted over forty millions of acres of land for school purposes, and over four millions of acres for university purposes. Two thousand five hundred and twenty-six newspapers were published in the United States, by far the greater proportion in the North. If church buildings could make a people religious, if the means of education and the opportunities of knowledge could render them virtuous, the people of the United States ought to be the best people in the world. Or, if civilization consists in material development, they ought to be the most ci