Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume I

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume I

Andrew Dickson White, diplomat, historian, and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University (1832-1918)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- DEDICATION

-03- PART I. ENVIRONMENT AND EDUCATION

-04- CHAPTER I. BOYHOOD IN CENTRAL NEW YORK 1832 TO 1850

-05- CHAPTER II. YALE AND EUROPE 1850 TO 1857

-06- PART II. POLITICAL LIFE

-07- CHAPTER III. FROM JACKSON TO FILLMORE 1832 TO 1851

-08- CHAPTER IV. EARLY MANHOOD 1851 TO1857

-09- CHAPTER V. THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD 1857 TO 1864

-10- CHAPTER VI. SENATORSHIP AT ALBANY 1864 TO 1865

-11- CHAPTER VII. SENATORSHIP AT ALBANY 1865 1867

-12- CHAPTER VIII. ROSCOE CONKLING AND JUDGE FOLGER 1867 TO 1868

-13- CHAPTER IX. GENERAL GRANT AND SANTO DOMINGO 1868 TO 1871

-14- CHAPTER X. THE GREELEY CAMPAIGN 1872

-15- CHAPTER XI. GRANT, HAYES, AND GARFIELD 1871 TO 1881

-16- CHAPTER XII. ARTHUR, CLEVELAND, AND BLAINE 1881 TO 1884

-17- CHAPTER XIII. HENDRICKS, JOHN SHERMAN, BANCROFT 1884 TO 1891

-18- CHAPTER XIV. MCKINLEY AND ROOSEVELT 1891 TO1904

-19- PART III. AS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

-20- CHAPTER XV. LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 1857 TO 1864

-21- CHAPTER XVI. UNIVERSITY LIFE IN THE WEST 1857 TO 1864

-22- PART IV. AS UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT

-23- CHAPTER XVII. EVOLUTION OFTHE CORNELL IDEA 1850 TO 1865

-24- CHAPTER XVIII. EZRA CORNELL 1864 TO 1874

-25- CHAPTER XIX. ORGANIZATION OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY 1865 TO 1868

-26- CHAPTER XX. THE FIRST YEARS OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY 1868 TO 1870

-27- CHAPTER XXI. DIFFICULTIES AND DANGERS AT CORNELL 1868 TO 1872

-28- CHAPTER XXII. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY COURSES 1870 TO 1872

-29- CHAPTER XXIII. COEDUCATION AND AN UNSECTARIAN PULPIT 1871 TO 1904

-30- CHAPTER XXIV. ROCKS, STORMS, AND PERIL 1868 TO 1874

-31- CHAPTER XXV. CONCLUDING YEARS 1881 TO 1885

-32- PART V. IN THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE

-33- CHAPTER XXVI. AS ATTACH E' AT ST. PETERSBURG 1854 TO 1855

-34- CHAPTER XXVII. AS ATTACH E' AND BEARER OF DESPATCHES 1855

-35- CHAPTER XXVIII. AS COMMISSIONER TO SANTO DOMINGO 1871

-36- CHAPTER XXIX. AS COMMISSIONER TO THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1878

-37- CHAPTER XXX. AS MINISTER TO GERMANY 1879 TO 1881

-38- CHAPTER XXXI. MEN OF NOTE IN BERLIN AND ELSEWHERE 1879 TO 1881

-39- CHAPTER XXXII. MY RECOLLECTIONS OF BISMARCK 1879 TO 1881

-40- FOOTNOTES