The Chronicles of America (50 Volume set)

JOHNSON, Allen, (editor)

Yale University Press, 1919

[Cataloger's note: A copy of this set sits to the left of the President's desk in the Oval Office.] 50 volume set. Bound in publisher's red cloth with lovely gilt illumination. Hardcover.  Good bindings and covers. Clean, unmarked pages. Minor shelf wear.

Contents: v. 1 The red man's continent / Ellsworth Huntington --v. 2. The Spanish conquerors / Irving Berdine Richman --v. 3. Elizabethan sea-dogs / William Wood --v. 4. Crusaders of New France / William Bennett Munro --v. 5. Pioneers of the old South / Mary Johnston --v. 6. The fathers of New England / Charles M. Andrews --v. 7. Dutch and English on the Hudson / Maud Wilder Goodwin --v. 8. The Quaker colonies / Sydney G. Fisher --v. 9. Colonial folkways / Charles M. Andrews --v. 10. The conquest of New France / George M. Wrong --v. 11. The eve of the revolution / Carl Becker --v. 12. Washington and his comrades in arms / George M. Wrong --v. 13. The fathers of the Constitution / Max Farrand --v. 14. Washington and his colleagues / Henry Jones Ford --v. 15. Jefferson and his colleagues / Allen Joshnson, --v. 16. John Marshall and the Constitution / Edward S. Corwin --v. 17. The fight for a free sea / Ralph D. Paine --v. 18. Pioneers of the old Southwest / Constance Lindsay Skinner --v. 19. The old Northwest / Frederic Austin Ogg --v. 20. The reign of Andrew Jackson / Frederic Austin Ogg --v. 21. The paths of inland commerce / Archer B. Hulbert --v. 22. Adventures of Oregon / Constance L. Skinner --v. 23. The Spanish borderlands / Herbert E. Bolton --v. 24. Texas and the Mexican War / Nathaniel W. Stephenson --v. 25. The forty-niners / Steward Edward White --v. 26. The passing of the frontier / Emerson Hough --v. 27. The cotton kingdom / William E. Dodd --v. 28. the Anti-slavery crusade / Jesse Macy --v. 29. Abraham Lincoln and the union / Nathaniel W. Stephenson --v. 30. The day of the confederacy / Nathaniel W. Stephenson --v. 31. Captains of the Civil War / William Wood --v. 32. The sequel of Appomattox / Walter Lynwood Fleming --v. 33. The American spirit in education / Edwin E. Slosson --v. 34. The American spirit in literature / Bliss Perry --v. 35. Our foreigners / Samuel P. Orth --v. 36. The old merchant marine / Ralph D. Paine --v. 37. The age of invention / Holland Thompson --v. 38. The railroad builders / John Moody --v. 39. The age of big business / Burton J. Hendrick --v. 40. The armies of labor / Samuel P. Orth --v. 41. The masters of capital / John Moody --v. 42. The New South / Holland Thompson --v. 43. The boss and the machine / Samuel P. Orth --v. 44. The Cleveland era / Henry Jones Ford --v. 45. The agrarian crusade / Solon J. Buck --v. 46. The path of empire / Carl Russell Fish --v. 47. Theodore Roosevelt and his times / Harold Howland --v. 48 Woodrow Wilson and the world war / Charles Seymour --v. 49 The Canadian Dominion / Oscar D. Skelton --v. 50. The Hispanic nations of the New World / William R. Shepherd.