PREFATORY NOTE. This course was offered as an experiment in 1907-8 and again in 1908-9. The results tend to prove that the study of nation- building through the lives of the builders has a singular attrac tion and a rare value. The great man is no longer looked upon as an individual hero in the Carlylean sense. Genius may be hereditary, as Galton insists but it is opportunity, environment, which sets it free. We are coming clearly to see that a man is not less a hero, not less a genius, because mainly he is a product of the forces which determine the whole social life-struggle of his age. There is the social hero. Perhaps in no more effective, certainly in no more interesting, way can one study social causa tion, the historical process, than through the evolution of person ality. The secret of personality may be the secret of a national crisis. The revelation of the unique personality of Abraham Lincoln is the explanation of his achievement as president. GEORGE ELLIOTT HOWARD. Lincoln, June 15, 1909. 3 251300 ANALYTICAL INDEX. PAGES SECTION 1. Roger Williams, the Apostle of Soul Liberty 7-9 1. Roger Williams and his Ideals 7-8 2. Eoger Williams and his Contemporaries SECTION II. James Otis, the First Revolutionary Leader of Massa SECTION III. Patrick Henry, chusetts . Virginia SECTION IV. Samuel Adams, the Organizer the First Revolutionary Leader of of American Public Opinion SECTION V. Robert Morris, the First American Financier 8-9 quot 9 1L 11-13 13 quot15 15-19 . . SECTION VI. Benjamin Franklin, the First American Diplomatist 19-22 SECTION VII. George Washington, the First American 22-20 SECTION VIII. Alexander Hamilton, the Organizer of American Finance 26 31 SECTION IX. Thomas Jefferson, the Father of American Democracy. 31-34 SECTION X. John Marshall, the Expounder of the Constitution 35-37 SECTION XI. James Monroe and his Doctrrine 1. Chief Events in Monroe s Career 2. Origin and Development of the Monroe Doctrine 39-4 SECTION XII. John Quincy Adams, a Puritan Scholar in Politics.. 4 42 1. Adams the Man 2. Adams the President 3. Adams and Federal Patronage 4. Adams and Slavery, 1829-1848 SECTION XIII. Andrew Jackson, a Frontiersman in Politics 1. Evolution of Jackson s Personality 2. Problems of Jackson s Administration SECTION XIV. Henry Clay, the Compromiser 1. Evolution of Clay s Personality 2. Clay, the American Statesman SECTION XV. Daniel Webster, the Defender of the Federal Union. 1. Evolution of Webster s Personality 2. Webster, the Champion of the National Union SECTION XVI. Charles Sumner, the Apostle of Peace and Liberty. SECTION XVII. Abraham Lincoln, the Typical 1. The Evolution of Lincoln s Personality 2. The Quality of Lincoln s Personality 5 37-4 37 3 43 45 46-50 46 48 48-50 5 5 51 53 . 54-57 54 G -J . 56-60 American Genius. . . . 61-65 61-63 63-64 6 ANALYTICAL INDEX. SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF STATESMEN. PAGES I. Joseph Galloway 66 II. Gouverneur Morris 66-67 III. John Adams 67-68 IV. Aaron Burr 68-69 V. Albert Gallatin 69 VI. James Madison 69-70 VII. John Caldwell Calhoun 70 VIII. Stephen Arnold Doug-las 71 IX. William Henry Seward 71-72 X. Salmon Portland Chase 72 XL Jefferson Davis 73 XII. Robert Edward Lee 73-74 XIII. Ulysses Simpson Grant . 74.75 BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN STATESMANSHIP. SECTION I. ROGER WILLIAMS, THE APOSTLE OP SOUL-LIBERTY I. Early 1604-1683. A. Roger Williams and his Ideals. Life of Williams. 1. Home, parentage, nationality. 2...