Writings on American History, 1948, Vol. 2 PDF Download

Author: James R. Masterson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330426555
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Excerpt from Writings on American History, 1948, Vol. 2: Of the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1950 This volume, a classified list of books and articles on United States history published during 1948, continues a series of volumes of which the latest, for 1939 and 1940, was issued in 1949. No volumes have been prepared for the years 1941-47. The first volume of this series, listing publications of 1902, was issued in 1904, and the second, for publications of 1903, in 1905. The years 1904 and 1905 were not covered. Writings published during the years 1906-40 were listed in 33 volumes edited by Grace Gardner Griffin. Miss Griffin retired from the editorship in 1949 after 41 years of service. Her achievement in American historical bibliography has never been paralleled. The present volume and a volume for 1949 were prepared by the Library of Congress between July 6, 1949, and April 2, 1951, with funds provided by the American Historical Association. The work was done under the general supervision of Solon J. Buck as occupant of the Chair of American History. On December 12, 1951, the National Historical Publications Commission, at the request of the Executive Secretary of the American Historical Association, assumed responsibility for preparing the Writings and seeing the volumes through the press. It is understood that the Writings will continue to be printed as parts of the annual reports of the Association. The Commissions only responsibility for the volume for 1948 has been to complete the reading of proofs. The volume for 1949 is in press, and work on the volume for 1950 is nearing completion. No provision has yet been made for preparing the volumes for 1941-47. The main differences between this volume and its predecessors are the following: (1) Only titles pertaining to the history of the United States are included. (2) Reviews are not cited. (3) Duplicate citation of titles, and cross references within the text, are discontinued; each title is cited only once. (4) Biographical titles, and titles designated as sources and documents, are not separated from other titles. (5) Titles are arranged, as far as possible, by regions, and topical classification is confined to titles that pertain to the United States in general. (6) Titles pertaining to relations of the United States with foreign powers, and to activities of American citizens, agencies, and organizations abroad, are grouped in a separate; section. (7) Titles are cited chronologically according to beginning date of subject matter, not alphabetically by author or by first word of title. (8) Illustrations, such as maps and portraits, are cited for articles as well as for titles published separately. 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.