Excerpt from A School History of the United States of America: Including Numerous Sketch Maps Showing Territorial Growth and Progress of the American Armies in Different Wars and Campaigns and Also Including Suggestions for Parallel Reading 1492 1897 Much of the value of the study lies, therefore, in the move ment toward a broader culture, and in the stimulating influences toward further reading. If young people leave the study with a distaste for it, and with no desire for further reading in the line of history, it is quite evident that a most valuable part of the work has been lost. How much of value still remains is not easily determined. The remedy, if a remedy be possible, lies in better methods of presenting the subject, either by text-book or teacher, or by both. For several years I have felt that a more helpful text-book might be arranged. The strong desire to aid in obtaining better results finally brought forth this book. 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.