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All communications about Univer­sity publications should be addressed to the Chairman of the Publications Committee, University of Texas, Austin. 681-3679-120-17h University of Texas Bulletin No. 2010: February IS, 1920 The Texas History Teachers' Bulletin Volume VIII, Number 2 PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY SIX TIMES A MONTH. AND ENTERED AS SBCOND-CLASS MATTER AT THE POSTOl'FICE AT AUSTIN. TEXAS. UNDER THE ACT OF AUGUST 24. 1912 The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free govern· ment. Sam Houston Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy... • . It is the only dictator that freemen acknowl­edge and the only security that free­men desire. Mirabeau B. Lamar The Texa.~ History Teachers' Bulletin Volume VIII, Number 2 EDITORS: The History Staff of the University Of Texas EUGENE C. BARKER WILLIAM R. MANNING FREDERIC DUNCALF FRANK BURR MARSH W. E. DUNN CHAS. W. RAMSDELL MILTON R. GUTSCH THAD W. RIKER C. W. HACKETT W. P. WEBB Managing Editor MILTON R. GUTSCH CONTENTS W. E. DODD: Nationalism in American History .... . . . . . .. .55 F. E. NORTON: A Study of the Adopted Texts in European Civilization . . . .. .. . .. .. ..... .... ......... . . . ..... . . . 67 J. L. STOCKTON: Teaching Current Events ... .. . . . . .. . .. .76 M. R. GUTSCH: The University Collection of War Music . . .. .82 Proceedings of the History Section of the T. S. T. A., 1919 ... . . 99 History in the Summer Schools of t.he University of Texas . ..102 The Texas History Teachers' B'ulletin is issued in November, Feb­ruary, and May. The history teachers of Texas are urged to use it as the medium of expression for their experience and ideals and to help make it as practicable and useful as possible by contributing articles, suggestions,criticisms, questions, personal items, and local news concerning educational matters in general. Copies will be sent free on application to any history teacher in Texas. Address CHAIRMAN OF THE PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE The University of Texas, Austin, Texas NATIONALISM IN AMERICAN HISTORY "Men love gain, but they sometimes love each other"-Woodrow Wilson in New Princeton Review, 1887. The President has learned during the last twelve months how much men love gain; how little they love each other. The one thing Woodrow Wilson sought to put uppermost in the minds of his countrymen in March 1913, was the idea that men must love each other, if this world is not to prove a charnel house for the human race. Wilson sought to make all men abate their personal interests and claims on behalf first of a truer nationalism and second on behalf of a wholesome and a sane internationalism. The Presi­dent's failure in his great undertaking is the register of our own failure in the development of a true national spirit. We set out in 1776 to make of ourselves a nation of brethren seeking first our own common freedom and sec­ond., the freedom of all men everywhere. The beginning was ausp1c10us. Our people were. almost without exception poor. They had no great cities, no highways of commerce, little accumulated wealth and almost no money. The real money they had flew to British coffers; and the paper'money they clandestinely circulated was in violation of law. Pov­erty is not a guarantee of democracy; but it is a wonderful solvent of aristocracy and social pretense. Our ancestors were poor; they could afford to be democratic. But they could not make their independence real without uniting all their communities into one. This they did in spite of many misgivings. But this very unity begot the opportunity of special groups to exploit the rest. The Revolution was not over till the idea of exploitation was strongly developed. Men love gain always, sometimes they love each other. Upon this rock the enthusiastic idealists of 1776 wrecked their little ship of state. The war with England cost them seven years of toil and blood and a debt of a hundred millions in gold. The very interest on their debt was enough to crush a much greater people. An interest charge of eight millions a year, when their total returns from exports were nothing like so great! They owed a third of the interest to French and Dutch capitalists or directly to the French and Dutch governments ; the other two-thirds they owed to American merchants, tradesmen, slave-holders and tories, who had been against them in their struggle. Freedom came dear; wars are always costly hu­man experiences. Under these circumstances our ancestors became almost desperate; they thought of repudiating the cost of their freedom ! A remedy quite as disastrous as the disease. They managed finally to set up a stronger national organ­ization which was designed to bind the enormous burden firmly upon the backs of all. Through common and mu­tual endeavor the people hoped to pay their obligations and maintain their sense of honor. But a true nation can only exist when all or nearly all its members labor for the com­mon good, not for their own individual profit. There was immediately after 1789 the conflicting dualism that was the negation of nationality. A11 men pretended to be asso­ciated for the good of all; yet each man avowed that he sought only his own personal advantage. Is it surprising that states soon set up claims for their own supremacy and that groups of individuals quickly associated together for the purpose of exploiting both state and national govern­ments? You can not have a nation upon such a conflicting dualism. There must be a supreme social and political power and those who administer that power or regulate the common interests must give evidence daily that they are servants of all, not abettors of any groups who wish profit~ or seek power over the machinery of government to protect or ad­vance special interests. We had then in the early effort of our ancestors to establish a nation only now and then conscious purpose to make all men serve the common na­tional ends. Washington, the aristocrat, thought for a time to do it and then yielded to the stronger impulse to let the strongest take charge of the state. He could not do other­wise in a country so composed. The first tariff was de­signed to raise a revenue. In every paragraph it demon­strated the fact that the body of the public was to be mulcted, that every single group of beneficiaries was set upon getting from the public more than it was willing to contribute. And only twice since 1789 has a tariff been written that showed a regard for the common tax-paying public. There can not be a nation in the true sense when all the groups of articulate interests within it regard the pub­lic as proper pickings. Only the sense of nationality was so weak in 1789 that any just and equitable system of public taxation would have overthrown the government it­self. Madison, the author of the first Federal tariff tax, said plainly that he must deceive the people into paying their taxes and hence hit upon the method of jockeying which I have described. The only just and equal system of taxation for any country is the direct method. But if the effort at nationality itself must be defeated by a just system then an unjust system must be resorted to. Itwas so when Washington set up the first national bank. The treasury itself was the proper agency for the manage­ment of all financial concerns of the infant confederacy; only the well-to-do of 1791 would not for a moment allow such a concentrated, social control of the public finance. The first national bank was created. It became the center at once of anti-national influences and its managers proved hostile to democracy, that second great ideal of the people. Washington could not do otherwise. Who else could have surpassed him? What we have had since the death of Washington only illustrates my point, namely, that our people have come very slowly, if at all, to recognize that a common national ideal involves the sacrifice of all for all, not the exploitation of all by such groups and combinations of groups as may be able to secure a majority of the votes at any given elec­tion. What is a nation set up for? First, to protect its membership and constituency from outside foes that might seek to take its resources or sub­ject its people to tribute as, for example, the Germans sought to do in the recent great war ; second, to protect its membership from the selfish instincts of its most power­ful citizens or subjects, that is to compel men to be social; and third, to educate its young and develop the culture of its people, that is, to cultivate the arts, facilitate discovery and ameliorate the ills and evils to which men are heirs. That is the state, the nation. And when these ends are suserved, the next step is by friendly association, corre­spondence and cooperation to bring these good things home to their neighbors, that is to become a part of the great world and help solve its problems and prevent the evils of conflict and war. That is, true nationalism merges unavoidably into true internationalism. The Christian religion, for ex­ample, was intended to be a light upon a hill ; it was to be world-wide, not by conquest but by persuasion. But we have come hardly to the first point of our evolu­tion as the experience of the President at Paris shows. We have been a nation only temporarily and at long intervals. Our people have not learned that the .intersts of all take precedence of.any individual rights. What do our consti­tutions show but the disposition always to protect individ­uals against the whole. They should protect all against unruly and avaricious individuals. Why, for example, is the Government unable now to take over the packing in­terests-'-great private monopolies? It is the view of so many of our people that private interests take precedence over public needs. Was there ever such a philosophy? If I iilustrate my meaning by citing well known facts in our history, I shall make myself clear. From the day when Jefferson undertook to make America one vast farmer republic, a democracy, with all men essentially equal d of the nations (duet}. Dear lad o'mine. The last long mi1e. We're all gc;ng calling on the Kaiser. The rose of No-Man's-Land. Salior !wer to save. Our glorious nation. We'll conquer in the end. The song my mother sung. Good-bye, Sammy, dear. We're coming Uncle Sam, to you. Old Glory. The battle hymn of peace. My country U. S. A. The soldier's gccf the annexa­tion question in its relation to political parties and to the election of 1844 in the Southern States. Prerequisite: Two college courses in history. Professor WINSTON. 23s. i. A. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE, 1918-1920. After a review of the principal issues of the war the course will concern itself with the work of the Peace Conference and its fruits, together with the origin, course, and significance of the Russian and German revolutions. Each member of the class will be expected, at the close of the course, to form some personal judgment on the more important aspects of the work of reconstruction. Prerequisite: Two college courses in history. Associate Professor RIKER. 148. SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY COLONIAL PROBLEMS. A study of British colonial policy with special reference to Amer­ica; the organs of imperial control and the problems of colonial ad­ministration. The political, economic, social, . and religious institu­tions in the colonies are emphasized in order to show their relation to the problems which arose. Prerequisite: Two college courses in history. Professor FLIPPIN. 149. ENGLAND UNDER THE STUARTS, 1603-1688. An advanced course conducted by lectures, discussions, and written reports. The main topics will be the rise of parliamentary govern­ment and the Puritan movement and its influence. Prerequisite: Two college courses in history. Professor PERKINS. 102. A. HISTORY OF THE WEST TO 1850, Particular attention is paid to the causes and process of westward migration; and to the economic, political, and social aspects of the occupation of the various geographic provinces of the United States, together with the results upon national development. The class··is conducted by lectures, with collateral reading, written quizzes, and one special report on a topic chosen under the advice of the in­structor. Prerequisite: Two college courses in history. Mr. MARTIN. SECOND TERM 5(f). THE AMERICAN COLONIES AND THE REVOLUTION, 1492-1789. For description see first term. Professor FLIPPIN. 5(w). NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION, 1789-1860. For description see first term. Professor RAMSDELL. 5(s). DIVISION AND REUNION, 1860-1918. For description see first term. Professor AMBLER. 74(f). HISTORY OF ENGLAND TO 1337. A survey of the social, economic, and political development of England from the dawn of civilization to the Hundred Years War. Special attention to typical medieval institutions, such as feudalism, the manor, the guild system, scholasticism, and the "Universal Church.'' Adjunct Professor Gt..--TSCH. 74(w). HISTORY OF ENGLAND, 1337-1763. The decline and disappearance of medieval institutions; the de­velopment of the Constitution; the English Church; the establish­ment of the Empire. Adjunct Professor GUTSCH. 25f. i. A. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The attitude of the king, the ministry and the Parliament towards the colonies during the decade immediately preceding the Revolu­tion. The establishment of the revolutionary organization. The plans of union. The C-Ontinental Congress. The movement for independ­ence. The Declaration of Independence. The formation of state governments. The Articles of Confederation. The problems con­fronting Congress. Prerequisite: Two college courses in history. Professor FLIPPIN. 25(w). i. A. THE FORMATION OF THE CONSTITUTION. This course covers in considerable detail the constitutional history of the United States from 1775 to 1804, dwelling on such topics as the formation of state governments during the Revolution; govern­ment under the Articles of Confederation; the formation, ratification, and establishment of the present C-Onstitution; and the triumph of Jeffersonian democracy. Prerequisite: Two college courses in history. Professor AMBLER. 45w. i. A. RECONSTRUCTION A:F1ER THE ClvIL WAR, 1863-1868. Lincoln's plans for .reconstruction and the radical opposition; con­ditions in the South at the end of hostilities; the question of status of the state and of the negro; Johnson's policy and his restoration of the Southern States; Johnson's contest with C-Ongress; congres­sional reconstruction in the South; Johnson's impeachment; the eco­nomic aspects of reconstruction. Prerequisite: Two college courses in history. Professor RAMSDELL. 108. A. HISTORY OF THE SOUTH. The ante-bellum South and its destruction, 1844-1865; the Civil War in the light of the forces which tended to hasten or obstruct the clash of arms; early reconstruction. Prerequisite: Two college courses in history. Assistant Professor COLE. 118. A. HISTORY TEACHING. Preparation of students for the teaching of history in the second­ary schools; discussion and consideration of problems that confront Texas History Teachers' Bulletin 107 the history teacher in the definition of content of courses and meth­ods of teaching. Prerequisite: Two courses in Education. May be counted as an advanced one-third course in history by students who have had the equivalent of two college courses in history. Assistant Professor COLE. 150 A. HISTORY o~· THE WEST, 1850-1920. A continuation of the history of the West to 1850. For descrip­tion see History 102 in the first term. Prerequisite: Two college courses in history. Mr. MARTIN. 151 A. HISTORY OF RUSSIA. In this course the attempt will be made to give the student a general idea of Russian history from the earliest times down to the present day, though the firrst five centuries will receive but hasty treatment. The chief emphasis will be laid upon internal develop­ment and the political and social problems of the most recent period. Prerequisite: Two college courses in history. Mr. MARTIN. 1 1Mr. Martin spent a year in Russia during 1917-1918.