A Primary History Of The United States For Intermediate Classes PDF Download

Excerpt from A Primary History of the United States: For Intermediate Classes The most casual observer can not have failed to notice that within a few years past a taste for the study of American History has been rapidly growing in this country. To meet the demand which this taste has created, historical works are coming from the press almost as profusely as popular novels; and no articles that appear in the magazines and newspapers of the day, are more acceptable or more generally read than those which treat of historical subjects. A most gratifying feature of this tendency is that it has reached our common schools, and that pupils in the lower grades, where history has never before been taught, are eagerly seeking to know something of their country's history. The great difficulty, however, in the way of teaching history in the intermediate and primary grades, heretofore, has been the want of a proper text-book. This little book is designed to meet this want. In its preparation, an effort has been made to tell the story of our country in a simple and natural manner. The language used, while it is not above the comprehension of pupils of the grades for which it is intended, is not, on the other hand, beneath them - an error too generally committed in works of this character. That there is a fundamental difference between simplicity of thought and simplicity of expression, is a fact which has been borne in mind throughout. 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.