Home > Literature and the Arts > Scholars and Historians > Historians, U.S.: Biographies

Research topic:William James Durant

Find more facts and information on our topic page about William James Durant

Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Durant-W.html" title="Facts and informations about William James Durant">William James Durant</a>

Give this article a thumbs-up on StumbleUpon

William James Durant

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

William James Durant 1885-1981, American historian and essayist, b. North Adams, Mass. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1917 and published his doctoral dissertation, Philosophy and the Social Problem, in the same year. This was followed by The Story of Philosophy (1926), an immediate best seller that opened the way for a school of popularized history. Durant then embarked upon a life-long project, the writing of a comprehensive history of civilization. The Story of Civilization (11 vol., 1935-75; vol. 7-11 written with his wife, Ariel Durant) is a monumental work stretching from prehistory to the 19th cent.

Bibliography: See also their The Lessons of History (1968) and Interpretations of Life (1970).

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

MLA
Chicago
APA

"William James Durant." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 8 Jan. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

"William James Durant." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (January 8, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Durant-W.html

"William James Durant." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Retrieved January 08, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Durant-W.html

Learn more about citation styles

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	Tandragee to get facelift Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 12/9/2003; 91 words ; TANDRAGEE town centre is to be given a major environmental face lift. Work stretching from The Square to Market Street is expected to start early in the New Year. The Department of Social Development has made [Pound... Read more
	The Guide: From Londonderry - Leave your sanity at home tonight.(Features) Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 7/21/2000; ; 493 words ; ...as the traditional local holiday period gets under way in earnest as office and factory workers, with several weeks off work stretching gloriously in front of them, hit the town with a vengeance. Night clubs and pubs will be packed to the roof rafters as people... Read more
	Nature regimes in Southern Mexico: a history of power and environment (1). Magazine article from: Ethnology; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; This article explores the popularized history of a state-peasant conservation alliance in southern...poststructural calls, this article explores Calakmul's popularized history as a locally constructed regime of nature, a story... Read more
	Classical Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/8/2008; ; 344 words ; ...since it re-opened in 2005. Time was when the Roundhouse, in all its splendid dilapidation, was the venue for contemporary work stretching from Boulez to Brook. It remains awe-inspiring architecturally but, alas, sanitised amid its cleanly sparkling bars and... Read more
	Father of financial area talks Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 9/19/2001; 168 words ; ...Farrell will discuss urban repair, regeneration and continuity in a special lecture on Friday. He will also preview new work stretching from Seattle to Seoul at the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland event. Born in 1938, Sir Terry has been responsible... Read more
	Volunteering is just a way of life for pam Voluntary worker Pam Gallant is the latest person to be nominated as an Evening Express Aberdeen's Champion. Newspaper article from: Aberdeen Evening Express; 7/20/2007; 262 words ; ...Aberdeen's Champion. The dedicated 62-year-old - who is partially sighted - has no intention of slowing down, despite her work stretching back for more than three decades. She is involved in five weekly projects, aimed at disabled people. The mum-of-four starts... Read more
	Food & Drink - Welsh; We have eaten a lot of curries and they range from excellent to nothing special... we wanted to produce something of high quality all the time.(Features) Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 3/15/2003; 496 words ; ...wine about quitting your job and going it alone? Then the next morning, with a bit of a hangover and yet another day at work stretching ahead, we just put it to the back of our minds and carry on. But two school teachers,Emyr Jones and Simon Mills,from Llanfyllin... Read more
	Bush details plot to crash into L.A. tower: Sept. 11 mastermind got Southeast Asians for hijacking plan Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/10/2006; ; 307 words ; WASHINGTON -- Under fire for eavesdropping on Americans, President Bush said Thursday that spy work stretching from the U.S. to Asia helped thwart terrorists plotting to crash a plane into a Los Angeles skyscraper. "It took the combined efforts... Read more
	Bush: Spying stopped attack Newspaper article from: China Daily; 2/11/2006; 471 words ; ...Under fire for eavesdropping on Americans, President George W. Bush said on Thursday (local time) that spy work stretching from the United States to Asia helped thwart terrorists plotting to use shoe bombs to hijack an airliner and... Read more
	Bush details foiling of terrorist plot Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 2/10/2006; ; 596 words ; ...DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION (CHART) Under fire for eavesdropping on Americans, President Bush said Thursday that spy work stretching from the U.S. to Asia helped thwart terrorists plotting to use shoe bombs to hijack an airliner and crash it into the tallest... Read more

For more facts and information, see all related premium articles

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

	Harvey, William Book article from: Biology Harvey, William English physician and physiologist 1578 – 1657 William Harvey was an English physician, a...London and was court physician to King James I and King Charles I. The Roman physician...Kenneth S. Saladin Bibliography Durant, Will, and Ariel Durant. The Story of Civilization, ... Read more
	The 1940s: Business and the Economy: Deaths Book article from: American Decades ...Boettcher, 96, industrialist, 2 July 1948. William J. Bowen, 80, labor leader, 27 July...who in 1911 built and designed, with William Durant, the first Chevrolet automobile, 13...business executive, 29 June 1948. William C. Durant, 86, founder of the Buick Motor Car...Hill, 76, son of ... Read more
	The 1920s: Religion: Publications Book article from: American Decades ...Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1927); William Jennings Bryan, The Bible and...Grosset & Dunlap, 1929); Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (New...of Sacred Literature, 1928); James George Frazer, Folk-lore in...York: Harcourt, Brace, 1923); James Harvey Robinson, The Mind in... Read more
	The 1910s: Lifestyles and Social Trends: People in the News Book article from: American Decades ...business trip in London, Chicago publisher William Boyce lost his way in a fog. A British...The former head of General Motors, Will Durant, together with Swiss-born American race-c...contaminated needle. Drawing on neighbor James Whitcomb Riley's Little Orphan Annie and... Read more
	Olivier, (Lord) Laurence Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...as Vincent Lunardi); Fire over England (William K. Howard) (as Michael Ingolby) 1937 21...First and the Last ) (Dean) (as Larry Durant) 1938 The Divorce of Lady X (Whelan...Blakemore and Wood — for TV) (as James Tyrone); The Merchant of Venice (Miller... Read more