Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Keren Vergon, Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. “Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.” –LOWELL. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES _FOR SCHOOL USE_ BY EDWARD CHANNING PROFESSOR