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American Historical Documents 1000-1904 - The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLIII (in 51 Volumes) (Hardcover)
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American Historical Documents 1000-1904 - The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLIII (in 51 Volumes) (Hardcover)
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Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard
Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the
greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and
mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT
(1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also
known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's
belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading
from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of
bookshelf. Volume XLIII features the texts that are, quite
literally, the foundational elements of the United States of
America, from an account of the discovery of North America by Leif
Ericsson and a letter from Christopher Columbus announcing his
landing in the New World, to the Mayflower Compact and the
Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and
the treaty cementing the purchase of Alaska from Russia, to the
1904 convention between the U.S. and the Republic of Panama.
Astonishing in their immediacy, these firsthand documents offer a
condensed view of the political progress of the American people.
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