To Charles Scribner’s Sons for material from _Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography_. To Harr Wagner Publishing Company, San Francisco, California, publishers of the complete works of Joaquin Miller, for permission to use his _Columbus_. To J. B. Lippincott Company for material from Charles Morris’s _Heroes of Progress_. To Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard Company for “Nellie and Little Washington,” from Harriet Taylor Upton’s _Our Early Presidents, their Wives and Children_. To the Missionary Education Movement for “Dom Pedro,” from Margarette Daniels’s _Makers of South America_. To the Macmillan Company for material from James Morgan’s _Theodore Roosevelt, the Boy and the Man_. To Dr. Sherman Williams for “The Boy of the Hurricane,” from his _New York’s Part in History_, published by D. Appleton and Company. To Mr. Wayne Whipple for “The Little Girl and the Red Coats,” from his _Story-Life of Washington_, published by John C. Winston Company. To the Brooklyn Public Library, Montague Branch, for the use of its remarkably fine collection of volumes on early American history, many of which are rare and out of print. To the Staff of the Brooklyn Public Library, Montague Branch, for most helpful co-operation. * * * * * As this book of _Great Birthdays_ was several years in the making, it is not possible to cite the many authorities, histories, and biographies which have been consulted. The following titles may give some idea of the kind of research work done, in order to make _Great Birthdays_ of value in teaching American History:--