Edward Channing

Edward Perkins Channing (born June 15, 1856 in Dorchester , Massachusetts , † January 7, 1931 in Cambridge , Massachusetts) was an American historian , university professor and Pulitzer Prize winner .

biography

The son of the transcendental poet William Ellery Channing, Jr. , great-nephew of the preacher and theologian William Ellery Channing and nephew of the suffragette Margaret Fuller studied at Harvard University after attending school and completed his first degree in 1878. He completed a subsequent postgraduate degree at Harvard University in 1880 with the acquisition of a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D. History). In 1883 he accepted a position as professor at Harvard University and taught there for 46 years until his retirement in 1929.

He was also president of the American Historical Association from 1919 to 1920 . In 1911 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

In addition to his teaching activities, he was also the author of numerous specialist books, with a focus on the history of the United States . For his A History of the United States in six volumes, published between 1905 and 1925 , he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the history category in 1926 . His other publications include:

• Town and County Government in the English Colonies of North America (1884)
• Guide to the Study and Reading of American History (1896, co-authored by Albert B. Hart )
• First Lessons in United States History (1904)
• The Jeffersonian System, 1801-1811 (1906)
• The Story of the Great Lakes (1909)

Web links

• Edward Channing in the nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Members: Edward Channing. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 22, 2019 .