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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
as well as an eminent librarian. His service to Western history has not been surpassed. To crown the series of events attending the creation of historical societies came the organization of the American Historical Association in 1884. Herbert Baxter Adams, of the Johns Hopkins University, was the most active person in bringing together the distinguished group of scholars who launched the enterprise and got it incorporated by the national government in 1889. In 1895 The American historical d around him an able group of assistants and set standards which have had much influence in a university which, as the event showed, was about to take a large place in our educational life. At Johns Hopkins the same kind of work was done by Herbert B. Adams (1850– 1901), whose name will ever have place in the story of historical development in this country. He was born at Shutesbury, Massachusetts, graduated at Amherst in 1872, was awarded the doctorate at Heidelberg in 1876, and was appointed
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
, a history, 182 Academic freedom, 417 Academician, the, 403 Accidence (Latin), 390 Account of the discovery of a Hermit,An, 539 Achenwoll, 577 Acquisition of Oregon, 137 Across America and Asia, 164 Across Russia from the Baltic to the Danube, 164 Acta Sanctorum, 174 Acton, Lord, 195 Adams, Andy, 161 Adams, Charles Follen, 26 Adams, Charles Francis, 197, 363, 459 n. Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., 197, 198 Adams, Charles K., 177 Adams, Franklin P., 22 Adams, H. B., 174, 177, 178 Adams, Henry, 86, 194, 197, 198-200, 302, 490 Adams, Henry C., 442 Adams, John, 396, 453 Adams, John Quincy, 197, 346, 453, 471, 472 Adams, Maude, 279 Adams, Nehemiah, 345 Adam's diary, 20 Addison, 542, 566 Address on Alaska at Sitka, August 12, 1869, 166 Address to the inhabitants of North Carolina, an, 426 Address to the public, . . . Proposing a plan for improving Female education, 411 Address to the workingmen of New England, an, 436 Ade