Author: Ruth Anna FisherPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
J. Franklin Jameson: a Tribute
Author: Ruth Anna FisherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
J. Franklin Jameson, a Tribute
Author: Ruth Anna FISHER (and FOX (William Lloyd))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
J. Franklin Jameson: a Tribute
Author: Ruth Anna FisherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
J. Franklin Jameson and the Birth of the National Archives, 1906-1926
Author: Victor Gondos, Jr.Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512816345
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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 JamesonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820320397
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
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.
John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America: Selected essays
Author: John Franklin JamesonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820314464
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
John Franklin Jameson (1859-1937) was instrumental in the development of history as an academic discipline in the United States. After the Johns Hopkins University awarded him the country's first doctorate in history, he became a founder of the American Historical Association, served as the first managing editor of the American Historical Review, and was a key figure in the creation of the National Archives, the National Historical Publications Commission, and the Dictionary of American Biography. This book, the first volume in an ambitious documentary edition of Jameson's public and private papers, contains essays representing Jameson's own scholarly concerns, followed by documents that reflect his role as an advocate for public support of historical and humanistic research. Many of these writings appear in print here for the first time. As a writer on historical subjects, Jameson is best known for his small book on the American Revolution, published late in his career. The scholarly essays contained in this volume, however, reveal pioneering work in a variety of subjects, including American political history, black history, southern constitutional and political history, and social history. In such writings Jameson showed great sensitivity to the significance of race, religion, ethnicity, and culture as historical elements. At a time when the study of American political institutions predominated among historical scholars, Jameson championed the claims of social, economic, and religious history and provided a basis for further research that historians have yet to exploit fully. The remaining documents in this volume not only demonstrate Jameson's advocacy of scholarship but also reveal him as a thoughtful commentator on the academic world at a crucial point in its development. Jameson entreated historical societies and professional scholars to decide for themselves the historical research that needed to be done and to seek support accordingly, instead of simply doing whatever work wealthy patrons were willing to subsidize. Similarly, he told colleges and universities to give scholars the freedom to engage in research without being hamstrung by the predilections of trustees. And, finally, he admonished the federal government to fulfill its responsibility to protect and publish historically significant documents. "As a young scholar," notes Morey Rothberg in his introduction, "Jameson was trapped between his desire to explore the social aspects of American political history and his conservative political instincts which appeared to frustrate that ambition. Consequently, he established a career as an institution builder rather than as a writer of historical narrative. He ultimately provided the American historical profession a national structure within which the distinctive elements of race, ethnicity, class, and culture could be investigated by others, since he could not bring himself to attempt this task." The two future volumes in this project will bring together Jameson's correspondence and other documents that detail Jameson's strategies for encouraging the growth of professional scholarship. The completed project promises a wealth of rich insights into the significance of humanistic research and education in contemporary society--a tool not only for historians but also for cultural administrators, journalists, and those involved in politics and government.
John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America
Author: Guardian of Heritage
Author: National Archives (U.S.)Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Archives and Records Administration
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
J. Franklin Jameson and the Birth of the National Archives, 1906 - 1926
Author: Victor GondosWhose American Revolution Was It?
Author: Alfred F. YoungPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814789129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The meaning of the American Revolution has always been a much contested question, and asking it is particularly important today: the standard, easily digested narrative puts the Founding Fathers at the head of a unified movement, failing to acknowledge the deep divisions in Revolutionary-era society and the many different historical interpretations that have followed. Whose American Revolution Was It? speaks both to the ways diverse groups of Americans who lived through the Revolution might have answered that question and to the different ways historians through the decades have interpreted the Revolution for our own time. As the only volume to offer an accessible and sweeping discussion of the period's historiography and its historians, Whose American Revolution Was It? is an essential reference for anyone studying early American history. The first section, by Alfred F. Young, begins in 1925 with historian J. Franklin Jameson and takes the reader through the successive schools of interpretation up to the 1990s. The second section, by Gregory H. Nobles, focuses primarily on the ways present-day historians have expanded our understanding of the broader social history of the Revolution, bringing onto the stage farmers and artisans, who made up the majority of white men, as well as African Americans, Native Americans, and women of all social classes.