Memory Union & Empire

<p>Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835-1915) was the grandson of President John Quincy Adams and brother to the historians Henry Adams and Brooks Adams. Although born to privilege and wealth he volunteered for service in 1861 and ended the war as a Colonel. Afterwards he found success as the CEO of the Union Pacific Railroad and a significant American historian.</p><p><br></p><p>Here are collected for the first time essays and lectures by Charles Francis Adams Jr. on the Civil War war-related historiography and his reservations about the American embrace of empire in 1898. Works in this collection include:</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Lee at Appomattox</p><p>The Constitutional Ethics of Secession</p><p>'Tis Sixty Years Hence</p><p>Lee's Centennial</p><p>War is Hell</p><p>Lincoln's Offer to Garibaldi</p><p>Some Phases of the Civil War</p><p>An Undeveloped Function</p><p>The Solid South and the Afro-American Race Problem</p><p>Shall Cromwell Have a Statue?</p><p>The Confederacy and the Transvaal: A People's Obligation to Robert E. Lee</p><p>The Monroe Doctrine and Mommsen's Law</p><p>The Civil War Pension Lack-of-System</p><p>The Crisis of Foreign Intervention in the War of Secession</p><p>What Mr. Cleveland Stands For</p><p>Mr. Cleveland's Task</p><p>Imperialism & The Tracks of Our Forefathers</p><p>The Panama Canal Zone: An Epochal Event in Sanitation</p><p>The Trent Affair</p><p>A National Change of Heart</p><p>A Plea for Military History</p><p>The Sifted Grain and the Grain Sifters</p><p>Reflex Light From Africa</p><p>The Lessons of the Butler Canvass</p><p>Reform in City Government</p><p>To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States Regarding the Philippines</p><p>The Doctrine of Equality and the Race Problem</p>