Makers of America
The following is a list of the subjects and authors so far arranged for in this series. The volumes will be published at the uniform price of $1.00, and will appear in rapid succession:—
Christopher Columbus (1436–1506), and the Discovery of the New World. By Charles Kendall Adams, President of Cornell University.
John Winthrop (1588–1649), First Governor of the Massachusetts Colony. By Rev. Joseph H. Twichell.
Robert Morris (1734–1806), Superintendent of Finance under the Continental Congress. By Prof. William G. Sumner, of Yale University.
James Edward Oglethorpe (1689–1785), and the Founding of the Georgia Colony. By Henry Bruce, Esq.
John Hughes, D.D. (1797–1864), First Archbishop of New-York: a Representative American Catholic. By Henry A. Brann, D.D.
Robert Fulton (1765–1815): His Life and its Results. By Prof. R. H. Thurston, of Cornell University.
Francis Higginson (1587–1630), Puritan, Author of “New England’s Plantation,” etc. By Thomas W. Higginson.
Peter Stuyvesant (1602–1682), and the Dutch Settlement of New-York. By Bayard Tuckerman, Esq., author of a “Life of General Lafayette,” editor of the “Diary of Philip Hone,” etc., etc.
Thomas Hooker (1586–1647), Theologian, Founder of the Hartford Colony. By George L. Walker, D.D.
Charles Sumner (1811–1874), Statesman. By Anna L. Dawes.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Third President of the United States. By James Schouler, Esq., author of “A History of the United States under the Constitution.”
William White (1748–1836), Chaplain of the Continental Congress, Bishop of Pennsylvania, President of the Convention to organize the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. By Rev. Julius H. Ward, with an Introduction by Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D., Bishop of New-York.
Jean Baptiste Lemoine, sieur de Bienville (1680–1768), French Governor of Louisiana, Founder of New Orleans. By Grace King, author of “Monsieur Motte.”
Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804), Statesman, Financier, Secretary of the Treasury. By Prof. William G. Sumner, of Yale University.
Father Juniper Serra (1713–1784), and the Franciscan Missions in California. By John Gilmary Shea, LL.D.
Cotton Mather (1663–1728), Theologian, Author, Believer in Witchcraft and the Supernatural. By Prof. Barrett Wendell, of Harvard University.