Historical Essays
Historical Essays, published in 1909, gathers occasional pieces by James Ford Rhodes, the Ohio businessman who retired early to become the historian of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the end of Reconstruction. The first essays discuss history as a form of literature, how it should be written, the profession of historian and the value of newspapers as sources. The rest are portraits and appreciations of historians Rhodes admired, among them Edward Gibbon, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, W. E. H. Lecky, Spencer Walpole and John Richard Green, along with American friends and colleagues. Rhodes writes in a plain, judicious style. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first essay is free.
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