The Memory of the Late James Grahame, the Historian of the United States, vindicated from the charges of "detraction" and "calumny" preferred against him by Mr. George Bancroft, and the conduct of Mr. Bancroft towards that historian stated and exposed [Inscribed to Thomas H. Perkins]
Boston: Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1846. First Edition. Tract issued four years following the death of the Scottish historian James Grahame (1790-1842), whose "History of the United States of America" met with resistance by members of the New England elite, chief among them American historian George Bancroft, for its..... More