Links to Primary Sources
Here are links to the primary sources I consulted for this project. The entire textbooks have been digitized by the Library of
Congress, so you can literally flip through them from cover to cover.
Instructors’ Guides:
Lee, A.S. (Albert Sherman). U.S. History: The Facts Condensed. Huntington, West Virginia: Self-published, 1921.
Wilson, C.B. (Clare Byers). Outline of U.S. History. Clearfield, Pennsylvania: Kurtz Bros., 1918.
Students’ History Textbooks:
Fite, Emerson David. History of the United States. New York, New York: H. Holt and Company, 1916.
Muzzey, David Saville. An American History. Boston, Massachusetts: Ginn and Company, 1911.
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