John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America: The Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Library of Congress, 1905-1937

John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America: The Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Library of Congress, 1905-1937
Author: John Franklin Jameson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2000-11-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780820320397

This completes a three-volume documentary history of the work of John Franklin Jameson. Composed principally of Jameson’s extensive public and private correspondence, Volume 3 highlights his most important contributions as managing editor of the American Historical Review, director of the Department of Historical Research at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, fund-raiser for the Dictionary of American Biography, and, most important, chief architect and promoter of both the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Archives. This volume brings once more to life a man whose deeds and thoughts continue to influence the world we live in.

Slavery, Race and American History

Slavery, Race and American History
Author: John David Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2015-03-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317459857

These essays introduce the complexities of researching and analyzing race. This book focuses on problems confronted while researching, writing and interpreting race and slavery, such as conflict between ideological perspectives, and changing interpretations of the questions.

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Total Pages: 268
Release: 1994
Genre: United States
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