In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

Du Bois to deliver his paper "Reconstruction and Its Benefits" to the AHA in New York. Finally in 1931 Hart presented a rough draft of the cyclopedia to Hagedorn. " From the beginning however the project was plagued with problems simply because Hart was very busy with many other commitments.

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