Written by one of the founders of the field and addressing all of the major issues, World History: The Basics is both an ideal introduction to world history and an…

Few Americans who have served their country, however, have met with as little recognition as George Mason of Gunston Hall. In this concise, cogently written biography, a distinguished historian restores…

THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Masons as Makers of America, by Madison C. Peters. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766127354.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

George Mason Of Virginia, Citizen, Statesman, Philosopher has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

George Mason was the oldest of that brilliant group of gentlemen radicals from Virginia who provided much of the intellectual structure of the war for American independence and the constitution…