James Ford Rhodes
James Ford Rhodes (born May 1, 1848 in Cleveland , Ohio , † January 22, 1927 in Brookline , Massachusetts ) was an American historian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1918 for his book A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 got for history .
Life
Rhodes, son of the entrepreneur Daniel P. Rhodes, studied after attending school from 1865 to 1866 at New York University (NYU) and then from 1866 to 1867 at the University of Chicago . He then joined his father's iron and steel company, and over the course of the next two decades made such a fortune that he retired in 1885 and devoted himself to his private studies on the history of the United States .
In 1893 he began the publication of a seven-volume history of the USA entitled History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 , the seventh volume of which appeared in 1906. In 1898 he was elected President of the American Historical Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters for a year-long term .
1917 his performance appeared the Civil War , entitled A History of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865 , for which he 1918 the Pulitzer Prize was awarded for history.
Publications
- History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 , 1893-1906, 7 volumes
- History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 , 1917
- Historical Essays , 1909, Essays
- Lectures on the American Civil War , 1913, essays
- The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations 1897-1909 , 1922
Background literature
- John R. Lynch: Some Historical Errors of James Ford Rhodes , 1922
- MA DeWolfe Howe: James Ford Rhodes: American Historian , 1929
- John A. Garraty (Editor): The Barber and the Historian: The Correspondence of George A. Myers and James Ford Rhodes, 1910-1923 , 1956
- Robert Cruden: James Ford Rhodes: The Man, the Historian, and His Work , 1961
Web links
- Literature by and about James Ford Rhodes in the catalog of the German National Library
- James Ford Rhodes in nndb (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Members: James Ford Rhodes. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 21, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rhodes, James Ford |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1927 |
| Place of death | Brookline , Massachusetts |