With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand. These seven masterful essays-awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for History in 1917. It took 5 years of work to produce this book. "With Americans of Past and Present Days" is an unusual work in several ways. A collection of five essays followed by two speeches, with the majority of the text dealing with the period around the birth of the United States. The first, and longest, essay is...