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American historian and statesman; prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level; during his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845
George Bancroft
Works
- Poems, 1823 external source
- An oration delivered on the fourth of July, 1826, at Northampton, Mass., short work external source
- History of the United States of America, from the discovery of the American continent., 1834 v. 1-3. History of the colonization of the United States. vol 1, vol 2, vol 3 v. 4-10. The American revolution vol 5, vol 6
- Address at Hartford, before the delegates to the Democratic convention of the young men of Connecticut, on the evening of February 18, 1840, v short work external source
- Memoirs of General Andrew Jackson, 1845 external source
- Literary and historical miscellanies, 1855 external source
- Washington Irving, 1860 external source
- Letter on the exchange of prisoners during the American War of Independence, 1862 external source
- Mr. Bancroft's oration, 1862 vol 1, vol 2
- The league for the Union. with James Milliken, 1863 vol 1, vol 2
- The place of Abraham Lincoln in history, 1865 v short work external source
- Obsequies of Abraham Lincoln. 1865 short work external source
- Memorial address on the life and character of Abraham Lincoln, 1866 short work external source
- Bancroft and Earl Russell, 1866 short work external source
- Joseph Reed; a historical essay, 1867 external source
- The last moments of eminent men. in Essays from the North American Review, 1879 external source
- The death of Lincoln in American patriotism: speeches, letters, and other papers which illustrate the foundation, the development, the preservation of the United States of America, 1880 external source
- History of the formation of the Constitution of the United States of America, 1882 vol 1, vol 2
- A plea for the Constitution of the U.S. of America wounded in the house of its guardians, 1886 external source
- History of the battle of Lake Erie: and miscellaneous papers (New York: R. Bonner's sons, 1891, 292 pp.; with Oliver Dyer) at archive.org
- “James K. Polk” in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914, 1914.
Works about Bancroft
- "Bancroft, George," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)
- "Bancroft, Hon. George," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
- "Bancroft, George," by Samuel Austin Allibone in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
- The Life and Letters of George Bancroft (1908) by M. A. de Wolfe Howe
- "Bancroft, George," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Bancroft, George," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Bancroft, George," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
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