Delve into the rich history and culture of America with the Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries. Edited by luminaries Henry Reed Stiles and John Gilmary Shea, this collection of articles and essays explores everything from the Founding Fathers to the great Indian Wars. Whether you're a student of history, an amateur historian, or simply fascinated by the complex tapestry of American life, the Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries is an essential resource for understanding the past and the present. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from The Historical Magazine, Vol. 1: And Notes and Queries, Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America; January, 1857 A year's labor having closed, the editor of the Historical Magazine improves the occasion to address a few words to his readers on the manner in which he has endeavored to discharge his trust. In conducting the work, he has kept steadily in view the two principal objects for which it was designed - to furnish an organ for historical societies, and a medium of intercommunication for literary men. In pursuance of the first-named object, it has been his endeavor to procure not only the proceedings of these societies in every part of the Union, but also brief memoirs of such of their officers as have died within the year, historical sketches of the societies themselves, reports of their officers containing matter of general interest, and papers read at their meetings or prepared at their request. Thus each society has had an opportunity to learn what similar institutions throughout the land are doing, and, when practicable, to aid them in their work. By this means, it is hoped, a community of feeling has been fostered between these scattered associations. They have been formed for the common purpose of rescuing from destruction the materials of American history; and it is necessary, for the successful attainment of this end, that they should work unitedly. Perhaps, also, the publication of the proceedings of the active historical societies may arouse those now dormant from their slumber; and it may even encourage the formation of such associations in States where they do not now exist. The second of these objects - to furnish a medium, in imitation of that excellent work, the English "Notes and Queries," by which important but isolated facts may be preserved, and historic and literary doubts proposed and solved - has been tested sufficiently to convince the editor, and his readers, also, he trusts, that its importance has not been over-estimated. This gleaning after historians and other writers often yields valuable fruit. Here "out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, records, and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluges of Time." Such matters have been found to be far better appreciated by the reading public than is generally supposed. The Magazine has become the repository of articles of interest to persons of widely different tastes and pursuits. In its pages the historian, the antiquary, the genealogist, the bibliographer, the numismatist, the autograph collector, and even the belles-lettres scholar, will each find something worthy of his attention. 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.