Excerpt from The Westward Movement in American History: Syllabus of a Course of Twelve Lectures Popular History of the United States, are fluent and easy narratives. Discovery and Exploration - While this is strictly not American history at all but rather a part of the history of Europe, it is treated as a period of American History in all the general works. The well known two volumes, The Dis covery of America (boston, 1892. Houghton, ) by John Fiske, is deservedly popular; while H. Harrisse, in his work of the same title, gives what may be termed the scholar 's point of view, and embodies in it the latest researches and discussions of mooted points, often of little interest however to the general reader. The well known English historical writer, James Anthony Froude, reproduces the spirit of the early explorers in his English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century. All the works cited below on Colonial history also deal at some length with the early discoveries and explorations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.