Albert Bushnell Hart
Albert Bushnell Hart
Albert Bushnell Hart, was an American historian based at Harvard, writer, and editor. One of the first generation of professionally trained historians in the United States, a prolific author and editor of historical works, Albert Bushnell Hart became, as Samuel Eliot Morison described him, "The Grand Old Man" of American history, looking the part with his "patriarchal full beard and flowing moustaches."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth1 July 1854
CountryUnited States of America
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The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.