A Victorian Scot’s account of the United States, from Columbus and the first colonies of Virginia and New England, witchcraft and Puritan persecution, through Washington and Franklin, independence and expansion, slavery and the Civil War, to Reconstruction and a postscript on President Garfield. Mackenzie writes with open admiration for government of the people, by the people and for the people.
An instructive view of how American history looked to an admiring British observer in the early 1880s. Download the free EPUB.