The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

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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