Papers of Frederick Jackson Turner, 1862-1976 (bulk 1889-1932).

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Adams, Ephraim, 1818-1907

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Congregational minister, founder and trustee of Iowa College. Dr. Adams was a member of the Iowa Band of Congregational missionaries who came to Iowa in 1843. He served as a pastor in Mt. Pleasant, Davenport, Decorah and Eldora. He was instrumental in the founding of Iowa College in Davenport. The college subsequently moved to Grinnell. Adams was a long time member of the college's board of trustees. Ephraim and his wife Elisabeth were married in 1845. From the description of Papers,...

Henry Holt and Company.

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Henry Holt was born on January 3, 1840 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was educated at General Prosser’s school in New Haven before attending Yale University. Although he graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1864, Holt was fascinated by literature and decided to enter the publishing world. He started his first company, Leypoldt and Holt in 1866. In 1873 Leypoldt retired and the firm became Henry Holt and Co. His most popular series was the Leisure Hour series, launched in 1872. Later i...

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

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Van Hise, Charles Richard, 1857-1918

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Farrand, Max, 1869-1945

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Max Farrand was born in Newark, N.J., into the family of Samuel Ashbel Farrand and Louise Wilson Farrand. He graduated from Princeton University, where he also received his Ph.D.; later he continued further graduate work in Leipzig and Heidelberg, and at Wesleyan and Yale Universities. He became professor of history at Wesleyan, Stanford, Cornell, Harvard, and Yale Universities (1896-1925), Incorporator and Director of the Commonwealth Fund (1918-1927) and Director of the Huntington Library (192...

Coolidge, Archibald Cary, 1866-1928

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Archibald Cary Coolidge (1866-1928) was an American educator. He was a Professor of History at Harvard College and the first Director of the Harvard University Library from 1910 until his death. Coolidge was also a scholar in international affairs. Elizabeth Bateman Partington was the wife of Frederick Eugene Partington (Brown '79) and was Coolidge's grandmother. From the description of Archibald Cary Coolidge letters to Elizabeth Bateman Partington, 1885-1924. (Harvard University). ...

Becker, Carl L. (Carl Lotus), 1873-1945

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Historian; professor of history, Cornell University. From the description of Carl Becker papers, 1898-1956. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073315 ...

Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943

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Nicola Sacco (1891-1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927) were Italian immigrants who were tried and executed for robbery and murder of payroll guards Frederick Albert Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli. The case of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Sacco and Vanzetti quickly became one of America's most complicated and notorious political trials. They were found guilty on July 14, 1921, but the legal struggle to save them extended until 1927. By April 9, 1927, all appeals in the Massachu...

Small, Albion W., 1854-1926

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Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926) was educated at Colby College, then Colby University, (B.A., 1876), Newton Theological Institution, the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig, and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1889). He taught history and political economy at Colby from 1881 to 1888, becoming president of that institution in 1889. From 1892 to 1925, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, the first department of its kind, and was also Dean of the G...

Schafer, Joseph, 1867-1941

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Dodd, William Edward, 1869-1940

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William Edward Dodd (1869-1940) was a historian and United States ambassador to Germany. From the guide to the William Edward Dodd Letters, ., 1911-1923, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Historian, diplomat, college professor. From the description of William Edward Dodd letter to Alfred Jackson Hanna [manuscript], 1895 December 2. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 502141954 Historian and ...

American Historical Association

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Hull, Charles Henry, 1864-1936

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Professor of American History, Cornell University. Hull died in 1936. From the description of Charles Henry Hull papers, 1850-1945. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63543501 ...

Hulbert, Archer Butler, 1873-1933

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Author, historian, educator. Researcher in Western Americana. Faculty member at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo. From the description of Papers, 1928-1968. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 16905875 Author, historian, educator. Professor, Marietta College, 1904-1918; Clark University, Worcester, Mass, 1918-1920; Colorado College, 1920-1933. Director of the Stewart Commission on Western History, 1925-1933. From the description of Archer Butler ...

Mood, Fulmer, 1898-

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Bolton, Herbert Eugene, 1870-1953

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Herbert Eugene Bolton was born on July 20, 1870 in Wilton, Wisconsin. He became Director of the Bancroft Library in 1916, and head of the History Department at Berkeley in 1919. His career in the classroom and in the field lasted until his death in January 1953. From the description of Pictorial material from the Herbert Eugene Bolton papers [graphic]. ca. 1910-ca. 1950. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 656612971 From the description of Herbert Eugen...

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913

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Osgood, Herbert L. (Herbert Levi), 1855-1918

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Herbert Osgood was an professor of Americal history, with a specialty in colonial history, at Columbia University. From the guide to the Herbert L. Osgood Papers, [ca. 1900]-1924., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) ...

Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932

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Frederick Jackson Turner, professor and historian, became a leading scholar after he published, in 1893, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," his revolutionary thesis that American society owed its distincitve characteristics to experience with an undeveloped frontier. He was born on November 14, 1861 in Portage, Wisconsin, the son of Andrew Jackson Turner, a journalist and politician. His scholary work was first carried on at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he t...

Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1809-1895

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First Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania. From the description of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe papers, 1853-1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 658210550 ...

Alvord, Clarence Walworth, 1868-1928

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Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937

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American educator and historian. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Baltimore, to Paul L. Ford, 1887 Jan. 30-1887 Feb. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269544451 Historian and librarian. From the description of Papers of J. Franklin Jameson, 1604-1994 (bulk 1900-1930). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82730569 J. Franklin Jameson was a prominent American historian in the early 20th century. From the guide to the J. Franklin...

Merk, Frederick, 1887-1977

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Oliver Edwin Baker (1883-1949) was an agricultural geographer and population expert and an analyst for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was an authority on agricultural land utilization and advocate of “rurban” living, a combination of urban employment, suburban living, and part-time farming. Baker was born in 1883 in Tifflin, Ohio, to Edwin Baker, a merchant, and his wife Martha Ranney Thomas. As a boy Baker was taught by his mother, a former school teacher, and t...

Stephens, H. Morse (Henry Morse), 1857-1919

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Professor of history, Cornell University. From the description of Henry Morse Stephens pictures, [ca.1894-1902]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073764 Biography Henry Morse Stephens, professor of history and founder of the University of California Extension, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on October 3, 1857. He attended Radley College School, then studied with a private tutor while in France. He late...

Munro, Dana Carleton, 1866-1933

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Dana C. Munro was professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and later at the University of Wisconsin in Madison at the time of writing these letters. From the description of Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1892-1912. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122638320 United States Inquiry investigator, Paris Peace Conference, 1919; research assistant, Committee on Public Information, 1917-1918. From the description of Dana Car...

Fish, Carl Russell, 1876-1932

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Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941

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Librarian and historian. From the description of Papers of Worthington Chauncey Ford, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068790 American historical editor, bibliographer, and statistician. From the description of Letters of Worthington Chauncey Ford [manuscript], 1886-1900. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806452 Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858-1941), the eldest son of Gordon Lester Ford and Emily Fowler Ford, first worked as a cas...

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

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Educator, author, and naturalist. From the description of Papers of David Starr Jordan, 1861-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068098 Zoologist David Starr Jordan was elected president of Indiana University in 1885. He left IU in 1891 to become Stanford University's first president. Jordan died in 1931. From the description of David Starr Jordan papers, 1874-1929, bulk 1895-1929. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 61225195 American ichthyolog...

University of Wisconsin--Madison

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Greene, Evarts Boutell, 1870-1947

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Historian. Greene was the De Witt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. From the description of Evarts Boutell Greene papers, 1893-1947. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 465278978 ...

McLaughlin, Andrew C. (Andrew Cunningham), 1861-1947

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Professor of history at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. From the description of Andrew C. McLaughlin papers, 1881-1947. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422024 American constitutional historian. McLaughlin served as chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago from 1906 until 1927, as professor until 1929, and as emeritus from 1929 until 1936. From the description of Papers, 1881-1944 (inclusive). (Un...

Andrews, Charles McLean, 1863-1943

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Historian, educator, and author. From the description of Charles McLean Andrews collection concerning colonial history, 1663-1800. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131880 Charles McLean Andrews was born on February 22, 1863 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He graduated from Trinity College (A.B., 1884) and received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1889. Andrews taught history at Bryn Mawr College (1889-1907), Johns Hopkins University (1907-1910), and at Yale Universit...

Hooper, Alice Forbes Perkins, 1867-

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Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963

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Archibald Henderson was an author and University of North Carolina professor of mathematics. From the guide to the Archibald Henderson Papers Relating to Family History, 1891-1964, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Mathematician, historian, and author. From the description of Archibald Henderson : miscellaneous papers, 1920-1922. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49242271 From the ...

Crissey, Merrill H.

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Johns Hopkins University

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Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1888-1965

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Schlesinger taught history at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr., 1908-1965 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973175 Historian, author. From the description of Reminiscences of Arthur Meier Schlesinger : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309724638 Epithet: Jr, US political analyst British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue...

Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938

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George Ellery Hale was an astrophysicist. He was the organizer and director of the Mount Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1904-1923, and was honorary director until his death in 1938. His principal scientific researches were made in stellar spectroscopy. From the description of Papers, 1903-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82798019 From the description of Papers, 1882-1937. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523501...