INTRODUCTION.
    By the Editor

THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS (1837-1845)
By James Shouler

THE EMIGRATION THAT SAVED OREGON (1842-1843)
By Thomas H. Benton

DICKENS'S FIRST VISIT (1842)
His Own Account in Letters to Friends at Home

"FIFTY-FOUR—FORTY OR FIGHT" (1844):
By James G. Blaine

MORSE'S FIRST TELEGRAPH LINE (1844)

I. By Alonzo B. Cornell

II. Morse's Own Account of the First Successful Line

HOWE'S INVENTION OF THE SEWING-MACHINE (1845)

THE ACQUISITION OF CALIFORNIA (1846) Fremont's Successful Invasion,
By Thomas H. Benton

THE MORMON MIGRATION TO UTAH (1846-1848)
By William A. Linn

DR. MORTON'S INTRODUCTION OF ANESTHETIC ETHER (1846):

I. The "Encyclopedia Britannica" Account

II. Dr. Morton's Own Account of His Experiment on Himself

HOW WAR WITH MEXICO WAS DECLARED (1846)
By James G. Blaine

THE STORMING OF CHAPULTEPEC AND THE ENTRY INTO MEXICO (1847)
By General Winfield Scott

THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA (1847)
By John S. Hittell

THE CLAY COMPROMISE (1850)
By Carl Schurz

WEBSTER'S SEVENTH OF MARCH SPEECH (1850)
By James G. Blaine

"THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD" (1850)
By Levi Coffin

JENNY LIND'S ARRIVAL AND FIRST CONCERT IN NEW YORK (1850)
A Contemporary Account

THE PUBLICATION OF "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" (1852)
By Harriet Beecher Stowe

THE OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE IN NEW YORK (1853)
A Contemporary Account

THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL (1854)
By Edward A. Pollard

THE COMPLETION OF THE FIRST RAILROAD TO THE MISSISSIPPI (1857)
By William Prescott Smith

THE FIRST ATLANTIC CABLE CELEBRATION AND THE WRECK OF THE CABLE (1858)
By Henry M. Field

CIVIL WAR IN KANSAS (1855-1859)
By George Cary Eggleston

THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF WASHINGTON IRVING (1859)
By Edmund Clarence Stedman

JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY (1859)

I. His Attempt to Raise a Slave Insurrection. Horace Greeley's Account

II. The Capture of Brown. Colonel Robert E. Lee's Official Report

III. Brown's Trial and Execution. By Horace Greeley

THE ARRIVAL OF THE "GREAT EASTERN" IN NEW YORK HARBOR (1860)

THE VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES (KING EDWARD VII) (1860)
A Contemporary Account