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Perhaps the most remarkable achievements of the Wash ington meeting of the Historical Association were (i) The friendly re-union Of military historians, from the North and from the South; (2) the peaceful discussion Of those historic campaigns before Washington and in the valley Of Virginia; (3) the historical representation of the New South and of the great Northwest, as well as Of the Northern States and Canada; (4) the treatment Of almost every branch of our American history, from the era of the great discoveries down through the colonial, revolutionary, and national periods to the present reconstruction of historical science; (5) the meeting of the youngest historians with the very Oldest with George Bancroft, father of American history and President of the American Historical Association; (6) the mingling Of representatives, both professors and students, from various historical schools - Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Brown, Wellesley, Princeton, Rutgers, Johns Hopkins, Bryn Mawr, together with many representatives of Southern and Western colleges; (7) the presence of congressmen and visi tors from different parts of the Union. It was a veritable national convention, in the political centre of the United States, for the furtherance of American history and of history in America.
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