Barnes, James A. (James Anderson), 1898-1980.

James A. Barnes was a prominent American historian who pioneered the technique of microfilming primary source materials for historical research. Barnes began his professional career as a fellow at the Brookings Institute during the late 1920s. Between 1930 and 1966 Barnes taught history at Temple University and after retirement from academia, served as president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Barnes' most prominent monographs were the Wealth of the American people (1949) and John G. Carlisle: Financial statesman (1931).