Everyman his Own Historian [antikvár]

PrefaceA LL of the essays in this volume, except the one on the /\ Marxian philosophy, have been previously published. XJ^However well they may have served the immediate purpose for which they were written, it did not seem to me that there was any adequate reason for resurrecting them from the periodicals and other resting places in which they were so decently interred. Some of my former pupils were of a different opinion. Always too generous in their estimate of my writings, and convinced that many people would be glad to have the best of my casual essays and reviews conveniently at hand in a single volume, they offered to make the necessary arrangements for publication. To this I consented. My share in the enterprise has been confined to selecting the essays to be included and preparing them for the press. None but verbal changes have been made in any of the essays, except those entitled "Labelling the Historians" and "Freedom of Speech": these, for purposes of clarification, have been somewhat expanded. I take this opportunity to say (for the benefit of any too literally-minded readers) that the "manuscript" mentioned in "The Spirit of '76" is, except for one or two quotations, pure fiction.The essays reprinted and the journals or books in which they first appeared are here given for purposes of acknowledgment: "Kansas" in Essays in American History, "Fred-crick Jackson Turner " in Masters of the Social Sciences,