McMaster's Primary History of the United States by John Bach McMasterWritten in 1901 by John Bach McMaster, Professor of American History in the University of Pennsylvania. This book has been written in the belief that a primary history of the United States should be short, as interesting as possible, and well illustrated; that is should be a narrative of events, not a series of biographical sketches; that it should touch on all matters of real importance in the founding and building of our country; and that it should leave unnoticed such questions as are beyond the understanding of the pupils for whose use it is intended. Those who leave school after but one year's work in history will thus obtain a fair general knowledge of so much of our history as every American ought to be ashamed not to know, while those who pursue the study further will have made a good beginning.
