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...important addition to the literature on the problems and history of the South by William Garrott Brown, has been published recently by the Macmillan Co. The volume consists of six interesting papers, from the first and most important of which the book is named. The substance of the first three papers has been given by the author in the form of public lectures at Harvard; the last three appeared in the Atlantic Monthly...
...Lower South in American History," by William Garrott Brown. New York. The Macmillan...
Another article of interest in the May Atlantic is "The Reconstruction Period: the Ku Klux movement," by William Garrott Brown 91. The history of the whole period of the Reconstruction of the Southern States after the Civil War is, especially in the North, comparatively little known. The "Ku Klux Klan," a secret fraternity organized to oppose the carpet bag politicians and to prevent the dominance of the negroes, was a society unique and curious in its aims and work, and an account of it, as well as of the state of southern politics from which it arose, is full...
March 13.--"The Abolitionists, the Slaveholders and the Slave," by William Garrott Brown '91. First Universalist Church...
...William Garrott Brown '91, deputy keeper of the University Records, has written the life of Andrew Jackson, an interesting account of this picturesque personage, whose true place in our history has always been a disputed question. The book does not enter the field of minute detail and criticism; it is "for those who would rather understand than judge him." Mr. Brown writes of his character charitably but without bias; he does not attempt to diagnose his faults or condone his vices, but he does not dwell upon them with distorting emphasis. The Creek and Seminole wars, the battle...