THE

AMERICAN HISTORICAL
REVIEW



BOARD OF EDITORS

GEORGE B. ADAMS
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART
HARRY PRATT JUDSON
ANDREW C. McLAUGHLIN
WILLIAM M. SLOANE
H. MORSE STEPHENS


MANAGING EDITOR
J. FRANKLIN JAMESON


VOL. VI
OCTOBER 1900 TO JULY 1901



New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
1901


Copyright, 1901

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY









PRESS OF
THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY,
LANCASTER, PA.

  1. CONTENTS OF VOL. VI
  2. Number 1. October, 1900.
  3. ARTICLES
  4. Albert E. McKinleyThe English and Dutch Towns of New Netherland
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    1
  5. John B. SanbornSome Political Aspects of Homestead Legislation
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    19
  6. Walter L. FlemingThe Buford Expedition to Kansas
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    38
  7. George L. BurrThe Guiana Boundary
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    49
  8. DOCUMENTS—Diary of John Harrower, 1773–1776
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    65
  9. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    108
  10. COMMUNICATIONS
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    181
  11. NOTES AND NEWS
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    183


Number 2. January, 1901.

ARTICLES

Charles F. Adams The Sifted Grain and the Grain-Sifters

R. M. Johnston Mirabeau's Secret Mission to Berlin

James B. Angell The Turkish Capitulations

Carl Becker Nominations in Colonial New York

Edward G. Bourne The Legend of Marcus Whitman


DOCUMENTS— Diary of Samuel Cooper, 1775, 1776; Letter of John Quincy Adams, 1811 301

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

NOTES AND NEWS

Number 3. April, 1901.

ARTICLES

The Meeting of the American Historical Association at Detroit and Ann Arbor 413

George L. Burr The Year 1000 and the Antecedents of the Crusades 429

Charles Gross The Political Influence of the University of Paris in the Middle Ages . . . 440

Charles H. Levermore The Rise of Metropolitan Journalism, 1800-1840 446

James F. Rhodes Sherman's March to the Sea .... 466

Paul S. ReiNiCH French Experience with Representative Government in the West Indies . . . 475

DOCUMENTS— The Society of Dissenters founded at New York in 1769; Mi- randa and the British Admiralty, I S04-1806 498

REVIEWS OF BOOKS 531

NOTES AND NEWS 615

Number 4. July, 1901.

ARTICLES

William Miller The Republic of San Marino . . .633

Norman M. Trenholme The Risings in the English Monastic Towns in 1327 650

H. P. BiGGAR The French Hakluyt ; Marc Lescarbot of Vervins 671

Albert E, McKinley The Transition from Dutch to English Rule in New York 693

DOCUMENTS— Letters of Dr. Thomas Cooper, 1825-1832; Letters on the Nullification Movement in South Carolina, 1S30-1834, I.; A Ministerial Crisis in France, 1876 725

REVIEWS OF BOOKS 770

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL— A Trial Bibliography of American Diplomacy, by Albert Bushnell Hart 848

NOTES AND NEWS 867

INDEX 885