One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.

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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