Excerpt from Our United States: A History
The momentous events of the last five years have demonstrated conclusively that our history textbooks must be written from a new viewpoint. The story of our national life should not be told as a narrative separate and distinct from that of the rest of the world. The American Revolution, for example, is no longer to be studied as an isolated event, resulting from British injustice. On the contrary, it should be placed in its true light as one phase of a larger revolution against kingly usurpation. In this revolt, Englishmen living in the New World played a leading part, encouraged and sustained by the knowledge that their action was approved by many of the foremost British statesmen of the day. So with the War of 1812, which takes on a new aspect when viewed as an incident in the Napoleonic Wars, rather than as a British-American contest. Throughout this book, therefore, special emphasis has been placed upon the relations of the United States to other countries, in order that the young citizens who study it may realize more fully the importance of our world relations and our world responsibilities.
An earnest effort has also been made to give due emphasis to many events, usually neglected, which throw a clearer light on the relations between the United States and Great Britain. Such incidents as the Rush-Bagot agreement of 1817, the divided attitude of the people of Great Britain during the Civil War, and the friendly attitude of the British government during the Spanish-American War are significant events, the narration of which should dispel the old illusion that Britain is our traditional enemy.
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