History of the United States Volume 5 eBook Elisha Benjamin Andrews
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History of the United States Volume 5 eBook Elisha Benjamin Andrews
It's an awesome book of the history of our country and one that states the truth, at least from the 1940's to this century. I thumbed through a great deal of this book, and found myself wishing we could go back in time and make better decisions-to President Wilson's time. If you look at his policies and the laws passed-many with good intentions but many of them with unforeseen consequences.Product details
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History of the United States Volume 5 eBook Elisha Benjamin Andrews Reviews
See my review for part four. I just wish there had been pictures. that is my only issue with this book.
History of the United States, Volume V by Elisha Benjamin Andrews begins with the presidential race of 1888, and concludes with the assassination of President McKinley. The book essentially covers the decade of the 1890s, the subject of a full-length book by H.W. Brands called `The Reckless Decade.'
Four chapters cover the Spanish-American war, including two in-depth chapters describing the Philippines. Four affairs from the newly minted 20th century are also described the 1900 Presidential Race, the 1900 census, the 1901 Pan-American Expo in Buffalo, and the national tragedy that occurred at the Buffalo Expo.
Andrews begins Volume Five with an account of the 1888 Presidential Race, a story that covers the entirety of Chapter II. This book covers the three other presidential campaigns during the time period, including the important 1896 presidential campaign. The first presidential campaign between Bryan and McKinley is described in detail in many books, and this book devotes all of Chapter X to the topic.
One of the treasures of reading this old history is that occasionally you might read about an issue that you had not covered before. The Louisiana Lottery, the Jamestown Flood of 1889, the Itata and Burrundia incidents were all new issues to me. Most of the other issues in this book were better described elsewhere - such as the aforementioned book by H.W. Brands - but this book is useful in order to remember names, dates, and events.
The Ghost Dance is also mentioned as a Messiah Craze that not only involved the Indians but Southern Negroes, but nothing is discussed of the incident at Wounded Knee. The Dawes Act is mentioned as a humane movement to make American citizens of the American Indians. Geronimo was not mentioned, although the Indian disturbances mentioned in Volume 4 were his doings. Red Cloud was not mentioned either, even though his death is usually part of the Ghost Dance story.
Yet full chapters are devoted to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago (Chapter V) and the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo (Chapter XVIII). The City Beautiful movement and the development of skyscrapers in Chicago had not formed into a topic of historical study as part of the changes of American cities. The urbanization of America was noted in Chapter XVII, regarding the 12th census, but the ramifications of these population trends was not. Sometimes history needs the perspective of time.
One reason why the history by Andrews is good for remembering names is that this one volume contains over 150 pictures. It is harder to forget about people like Emilio Aguinaldo, Governor Weyler, and Nelson Dingley when you have taken a good look at them.
Chapter 17, on the census, is one of the more tedious chapters of this volume. Even the transcriber had some trouble entering all of the numbers, because you will find mistakes such as `$1,650.223,0400.' In all, I found 25 mistakes in the text, such as the misspelling of Guatemala and other formatting errors that are more annoying than misleading. The e-book has photo captions for a trio of pictures (Francis T. Nichols, Grant's Tomb, and Admiral Cervera) that are not in the e-book with pictures. You would have to go to the HTML version of the book in Project Gutenberg to see these three pictures.
These volumes by Andrews could be more useful had there been links from the table of contents to the text. There could also be links from the listing of pictures in the table of contents to the text. If you download Volume 6 of this history by Andrews from Project Gutenberg, you can see the types of hyperlink capabilities that make these volumes more useful.
Not many people are downloading the book, but more might be encouraged to do so if the typos were corrected and the book was made more useful with the hyperlink capabilities that are especially useful for history books.
This volume by Andrews, as well as the other five volumes of the `History of the United States' series, are available for free on Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg is the primary reason why other booksellers, like , have works in the public domain, such as this book, available at little or no cost.
Too biased.
I am enjoying reading this series. Takes a broad view of the times. Details are informative but not lengthy.
Great reference book!
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Good detail . Some facts not known before. Interesting historical reading. Not Interested to much in the census chapter. Over all good reading. â
It's an awesome book of the history of our country and one that states the truth, at least from the 1940's to this century. I thumbed through a great deal of this book, and found myself wishing we could go back in time and make better decisions-to President Wilson's time. If you look at his policies and the laws passed-many with good intentions but many of them with unforeseen consequences.
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