WRITINGS ON AMERICAN HISTORY, 1923

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES ON UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN HISTORY PUBLISHED DURING THE YEAR 1923, WITH SOME MEMORANDA ON OTHER PORTIONS OF AMERICA

COMPILED BY

GRACE GARDNER GRIFFIN

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PREFACE

The annual bibliography which follows is the eighteenth number of a continuous series opening with 1906. A volume entitled Writings on American History, 1902, prepared by Prof. Ernest C. Richardson, librarian of Princeton University, and Mr. Anson Ely Morse, was published at Princeton in 1904. A volume upon a plan more like the present, Writings on American History, 1903, prepared by Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, Mr. William A. Slade, and Mr. Ernest D. Lewis, under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, was published by that institution at Washington in 1905. After an interval followed the series Writings on American History, 1906, 1907, and 1908, prepared by Miss Grace Gardner Griffin, and published by Macmillan Company (New York, 1908, 1909, 1910).

Independent publication ceased for a time with the volume for 1908. Beginning with the volume for 1909, though the preparation of the material continued to be provided for by subscription, the printing and publication of the annual bibliography was assumed by the American Historical Association. In its Annual Reports for 1909, 1910, 1911, bibliographies of the material published in those years were included. The Yale University Press, with much public spirit, took up at this point the publication of the series, and issued as independent volumes the bibliographies for 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, and 1917. Publication by that concern having ended, the plan of incorporating this annual survey in the Annual Reports was resumed, and the bibliographies for 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, and 1922 were incorporated, as supplementary volumes, in the Annual Reports for those years. A similar procedure is followed with this bibliography for 1923.

To those who desire to have nearly complete sets of the volumes hitherto published, it may be useful to know that the volume for 1902 can still be obtained from the library of Princeton University, that for 1903 from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, while those for 1906, 1907, 1908 (independent volumes), and bound "separates" of those for 1910 and 1911, and the volumes for 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, and 1922 can be obtained from the secretary of the American Historical Association.

The ensuing pages have been prepared upon the same system as the preceding volumes. The intention of the compiler has been to include all books and articles, however brief, which contain anything of value to the history of the United States and of British North America. With respect to the regions lying south of the continental United States, however, and to the Pacific Islands, the intention has been to include all writings on the history of these regions published in the United States or Europe; but the product (not relating to the United States) of South America and other southward regions has been left to their own bibliographers. New editions of books, if they contain no new material, have not been noticed. When no other date of publication is given, the date is 1923. The annotations