Evarts Boutell Greene

Evarts Boutell Greene (* 1870 in Kobe ; † 1947 ) was an American historian specializing in American colonial history, the American Revolution and the War of Independence .

Greene was the son of missionaries in Japan . He studied history at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1890 and a doctorate in 1893. He then taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he was from 1906 to 1913 Dean of the College of Arts and Literature . In 1918 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1931 to the American Philosophical Society . From 1923 he taught at Columbia University , where he was the first De Witt Clinton professor in 1926 and from 1936 until his retirement in 1939 head of the Institute for Japanese Studies .

His doctoral students included Allan Nevins , his successor as Clinton Professor at Columbia University, and Richard B. Morris . In 1930 he was president of the American Historical Association .

He was a descendant of Roger Sherman .

Fonts

The Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North America, Longmans, Green 1898
Provincial America, 1690-1740, New York: Harper 1905, Greenwood Press 1980
The Foundations of American Nationality, New York: American Book Company 1922, 2nd edition 1935
with Richard B. Morris: A Guide to the Principal Sources for Early American History (1600–1800) in the City of New York, Columbia University Press 1929
with Virginia D. Harrington: American Population before the Federal Census of 1790, Columbia University Press 1932, Baltimore 1993
The Revolutionary Generation, 1763-1790, Macmillan 1943
Religion and the state; the making and testing of an American tradition, New York University Press, Oxford University Press 1941

^ Member History: Evarts B. Greene. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 28, 2018 .