{"product_id":"john-franklin-jameson-and-the-development-of-humanistic-scholarship-in-america-volume-2-the-years-of-growth-1859-1905-9780820317137","title":"John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America: Volume 2: The Years of Growth, 1859-1905","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn 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 its first doctorate in history, he became a founder of the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e and was a key figure in the creation of the National Archives, the National Historical Publications Commission, and the \u003ci\u003eDictionary of American Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first volume of Jameson's papers (Georgia, 1993) provided a representative view of his scholarly concerns and his public positions as an advocate for history through a selection of his lectures, speeches, essays, and articles. The present volume includes diary entries, published here in full for the first time, which cover virtually all of Jameson's collegiate and graduate education and his early teaching career. Also included are letters and official reports that further trace Jameson's emergence as a historian and the strategy he mapped out for promoting historical scholarship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese documents illuminate Jameson's undergraduate career at Amherst, his graduate education and teaching at Johns Hopkins, his tenure as a professor at Brown, and his direction of the history department at the University of Chicago, focusing here mainly on his efforts to establish an institutional home for history at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe third, and final, volume will also include letters and official reports, and will begin with Jameson's appointment in 1905 as director of the Department of Historical Research at the Carnegie Institution of Washington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Franklin Jameson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.54h x 6.41w x 1.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820317137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMorey Rothberg is the director of the John Franklin Jameson Papers Project. He is currently writing a biography of Jameson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40414655774835,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":77.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_3a3a03e2-69f6-4d21-8b2f-25ea7978846e.jpg?v=1662213530","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/john-franklin-jameson-and-the-development-of-humanistic-scholarship-in-america-volume-2-the-years-of-growth-1859-1905-9780820317137","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}