INTRODUCTION.
    By the Editor

THE ORIGIN OF THE WAR
By John Quincy Adams

THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE "CONSTITUTION" AND THE "GUERRIÈRE" (1812):

I. By Theodore Roosevelt

II. The Report of Captain William Orme, Who Was on Board the Guerrière

THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE "CHESAPEAKE" AND "SHANNON" (1813)
By Theodore Roosevelt

PERRY'S VICTORY ON LAKE ERIE (1813)
By James Fenimore Cooper

THE BATTLE OF THE THAMES (1813)
By Henry M. Breckenridge

JACKSON'S DEFEAT OF THE CREEK INDIANS (1814)
By James Parton

THE BATTLES OF CHIPPEWA AND LUNDY'S LANE (1814)
By General Winfield Scott

THE BURNING OF WASHINGTON (1814)

I. By Richard Hildreth

II. A British Account

THE BATTLE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN (1814)
By Fenimore Cooper

HOW FRANCIS SCOTT KEY WROTE "THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER" (1814)
By F. S. Key-Smith

SECESSION IN NEW ENGLAND—THE HARTFORD CONVENTION (1814-1815)
By James Schouler

THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS (1815)
By Theodore Roosevelt

HOW AMERICAN SUCCESS IN THE WAR IMPREST EUROPE
By Henry Adams

THE FIRST SEMINOLE WAR (1817-1818)
By James Parton

THE MEANING OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE (1817-1823)
By Admiral A. T. Mahan

"WHO READS AN AMERICAN BOOK" (1820)
By Sidney Smith

THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE (1820)
By James G. Blaine

HOW A LOG CABIN WAS BUILT (1822)
A Contemporary Description

WEBSTER'S FIRST BUNKER HILL ORATION (1825)
By Samuel G. Goodrich

THE BUILDING OF THE ERIE CANAL (1818-1825)

I. By William H. Seward

II. The Erie Canal Celebration and Other Canals.
By James Schouler

THE PANAMA MISSION (1825)
By James Schouler

THE RETURN OF LAFAYETTE (1824)

I. His Arrival in New York and the Trip to Albany By Thurlow Weed

II. His Reception in Washington and Elsewhere By Thomas H. Benton

THE DUEL BETWEEN CLAY AND JOHN RANDOLPH, OF ROANOKE (1826)
By Thomas H. Benton

DEATH OF ADAMS AND JEFFERSON ON THE SAME DAY (1826)
By Thomas H. Benton