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Bernard Bailyn was the author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1968. He was the editor of The Apologia of Robert Keayne (1965) and of the two-volume Debate on the Constitution (1993).
Executive officers of the American Historical Association at the time of the association's incorporation by the U.S. Congress photographed during their annual meeting on December 30, 1889, in Washington, D.C. Seated (left to right) are: William Poole, Justin Winsor, Charles Kendall Adams (President), George Bancroft, John Jay, and Andrew Dickson White, Standing (left to right) are: Herbert B ...
Dunning had a dual role in history and political science. He was a long-time editor of Political Science Quarterly. [5] He was a leading expert in the history of political thought, as expressed in his trilogy: A History of Political Theories: Ancient and Medieval (1902), From Luther to Montesquieu (1905), and From Rousseau to Spencer (1920). [9 ...
The collection contains more than 60,000 documents on deposit at the New-York Historical Society detailing the political and social history of the United States. The collection's holdings include manuscript letters, diaries, maps, photographs, printed books and pamphlets, ranging from 1493 through modern times.
Banner's writings have been diverse and influential. In To the Hartford Convention, which Gordon S. Wood called "truly outstanding" and Jack P Greene termed "an essential contribution to the early political history of the new nation", Banner tried to bring the Federalist Party back into consideration as fully committed to the principles of the American Revolution and the norms of republican ...
He donated all 4,000 books to the Cornell University Library for the purpose of teaching architecture as well as the remainder of his 30,000-book collection. [34] In 1879, White enlisted George Lincoln Burr, a former undergraduate assistant for one of his seminars, to manage the rare books collection. Though Burr would later hold other ...
Western History Association: Best book on military history of the frontier and western North America from prehistory through the 20th century: since 2003 Watumull Prize: American Historical Association: Best book on the history of India: 1945–1982 Justin Winsor Prize (history) American Historical Association: History in the Western Hemisphere ...
Some political historians made fun of their own predicament, as when William Leuchtenburg wrote, "the status of the political historians within the profession has sunk to somewhere between that of a faith healer and a chiropractor. Political historians were all right in a way, but you might not want to bring one home to meet the family."