Only show
results for:

Topics related to " Henry (Brooks) Adams"

Brooks Adams
Brooks Adams 1848-1927, American historian, b. Quincy, Mass.; son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). His theory that civilization rose and fell according to the growth and decline of commerce was first developed in The Law of Civilization and Decay (1895). Adams applied it to his own capitalis... Read more
Henry Adams
Henry Adams 1838-1918, American writer and historian, b. Boston; son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). He was secretary (1861-68) to his father, then U.S. minister to Great Britain. Upon his return to the United States, having already abandoned the law and seeing no opportunity in the tradition... Read more
Adam Marsh
Adam Marsh or Adam de Marisco , d. 1259?, English Franciscan scholar. He was a student of Robert Grosseteste . When Grosseteste became bishop, Marsh took his place in the Franciscan school at Oxford. Marsh's advice and his services as a peacemaker were constantly sought, and Grosseteste relied ... Read more
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams 1767-1848, 6th President of the United States (1825-29), b. Quincy (then in Braintree), Mass.; son of John Adams and Abigail Adams and father of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). He accompanied his father on missions to Europe, gaining broad knowledge from study and travel&md... Read more
Charles Francis Adams
Charles Francis Adams 1835-1915, American economist and historian, b. Boston; son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). In the Civil War he fought at Antietam and Gettysburg and was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers. Adams became a railroad expert after the war, writing Chapters of Erie (... Read more
James Truslow Adams
James Truslow Adams , 1878-1949, American historian, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. The Founding of New England (1921), which brought him the Pulitzer Prize in history for 1922, was followed by Revolutionary New England, 1691-1776 (1923) and New England in the Republic, 1776-1850 (1926). Among the best of ... Read more
Eve
Eve [Heb.,=life], in the Bible, the first woman, wife of Adam and the mother of Cain, Abel, and Seth. Fashioned from Adam's rib, she was beguiled by the serpent into eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. Eve then tempted Adam to eat, whereupon they were banished from the Garden of ... Read more
Adam de la Halle
Adam de la Halle or Adam le Bossu , c.1240-1287, French dramatist and poet-musician, one of the great trouvères . Many of his songs and polyphonic motets are preserved, as is the pastoral comedy with music Le Jeu de Robin et Marion (c.1283). Another work, Jeu d'Adam ou de la feuill&ea... Read more
Life of Adam and Eve
Life of Adam and Eve early Jewish work included in the collection known as the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha . It was probably written in Hebrew between 100 BC and AD 100. Based on the Old Testament story, it supplements the original. It has been interpreted to teach that Eve was the source of Adam... Read more
Henry Benjamin Whipple
Henry Benjamin Whipple 1822-1901, American Episcopal bishop, b. Adams, N.Y. He was ordained a priest in 1850, and in 1859 he was consecrated the first bishop of Minnesota. With James Lloyd Breck he founded (1860) in Faribault, Minn., the Bishop Seabury Mission, which developed into the Seabury Divi... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Henry (Brooks) Adams"

Henry Brooks Adams
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Henry Brooks Adams The American historian and author Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) lived in an era of remarkable...children of Charles Francis and Abigail Brooks Adams. Henry's mother was the daughter of one of... Read more
Adams, Henry (Brooks)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Adams, Henry [Brooks] (1838–1918...grandson of John Quincy Adams and son of Charles Francis Adams, claims in his autobiography...human history and Adams's own divorce from...heroine in Esther . Adams commissioned his...unified world, was Adams's first attempt...by ... Read more
Adams, Henry Brooks
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Adams, Henry Brooks (1838–1918) US historian and writer. A direct descendant of John Adams and John Quincy Adams , his best-known work is The Education of Henry Adams (1907), an ironic analysis of a technological society. Read more
Adams, Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Adams, Henry (1838–...Charles Francis Adams, a U.S. congressman...and Abigail Brooks Adams, he was also...John Quincy Adams . Henry grew up in...Education of Henry Adams (1904, 1918...Contosta , Henry Adams and the American... Read more
Peter Chardon Brooks Adams
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...he became president in 1901, gave Adams a considerable role as an adviser. In this position Adams advocated imperial expansion along...regulation of American business. In 1903 Adams became a lecturer at the Boston University...Reading The standard biography of Adams is Arthur F. Beringause, ... Read more
Henry Adams
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). He was...the traditional Adams vocation of politics...Review. In 1877 Adams moved to Washington...sanguine temperament, Adams became even more...by his brother, Brooks Adams , he found a satisfactory...The Education of Henry Adams ... Read more
Adams, Brooks
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Adams, Brooks (1848–1927) US historian. Brother of Henry Brooks Adams , his influential book Law of Civilization and Decay...commerce. In America's Economic Supremacy (1900), Adams predicted the decline of Western Europe and proposed... Read more
Brooks Adams
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). His theory...and Decay (1895). Adams applied it to his...influenced his brother Henry Adams , whose essays he...Supremacy (1900), Brooks said that Western...Beringause (1955); J. T. Adams, The Adams Family...T. P. Donovan, Henry ... Read more
Mel Brooks
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...rapid-fire wordplay. By the time Brooks parted ways with Caesar in the mid-195...substantial amount in those days. Brooks remained in television, though without...The 2,000-Year-Old Man," in which Brooks played a smart-alecky Jewish curmudgeon...hands. "The 2,000-Year-Old Man" was Brooks's first ... Read more
Adams, Charles Francis
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Adams, Charles Francis (1807–86), son of John Quincy Adams, entered politics as a “conscience...Claims. He edited the Works of John Adams (1850–56), the letters of Abigail Adams, and the Memoirs of John Quincy Adams (12 vols., 1874–77). Henry, Brooks, ... Read more

Dictionary entries related to " Henry (Brooks) Adams"

Holland, Henry
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Holland, Henry (1745–1806). Leading English Georgian architect . He became...He evolved an elegant Neo-Classical style to rival that of the Adams , as can be seen at Brooks's Club House, 60 St James's Street, London (1776–8). The... Read more
Oratory
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...until the Revolution aroused Samuel Adams, James Otis, and Patrick Henry. In Henry's great speeches on the "Parson's...invective reigned in Congress until Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster...eminent speakers included John Quincy Adams, Thomas Hart Benton, Thomas ... Read more
Kennedy, Arthur
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...x2014; appeared with Evans company in Henry IV, Part I ; in Federal Theater production...Summer Place (Daves) 1960 Elmer Gantry (Brooks) 1961 Murder She Said (Pollock); Claudelle...Adventures of a Young Man (Ritt) (as Doc Adams); Barabbas (Fleischer) (as Pontius Pilate... Read more
Malden, Karl
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...as Red) 1944 Winged Victory (Cukor) (as Adams) 1946 13 Rue Madeleine (Hathaway) (as flight...Preminger) (as Lt. Thomas); The Gunfighter (Henry King) (as Mac); Halls of Montezuma (Milestone...Latrec) 1953 Take the High Ground (Richard Brooks) (as Sgt. Laverne Holt); I Confess (Hitchcock... Read more
Cr é dit Mobilier of America
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...vice president; the new Vice President Henry Wilson; and Representative James A. Garfield...the United States. Representative James Brooks (D-N.Y.) was censured. Other members escaped...Dudley Warner's The Gilded Age (1873) and Henry Adams's Democracy (1880), the Cr é dit... Read more
Grant, Cary
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...The Eagle and the Hawk (Walker) (as Henry Crocker); Gambling Ship (Gasnier and Marcin...1941 Penny Serenade (Stevens) (as Roger Adams); Suspicion (Hitchcock) (as Johnnie Aysgarth...O'Toole) 1943 Mr. Lucky (Potter) (as Joe Adams) 1944 Destination Tokyo (Daves) (as Capt...Hoffman — short) 1950 ... Read more
Reynolds, Burt
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Actor: 1961 Angel Baby (Wendkos) (as Hoke Adams); Armored Command (Haskin) (as Skee) 1965...Donen) (as Walker) 1976 Silent Movie (Mel Brooks) (as himself); Nickelodeon (Bogdanovich...Altman) (as himself) 1993 Cop and a Half (Henry Winkler) (as Nick McKenna) 1995 The Maddening... Read more
Young, Robert
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1934 Carolina ( The House of Connelly ) (Henry King) (as Will Connelly); Spitfire (Cromwell...David Linden) 1939 Honolulu (Buzzell) (as Brooks Mason/George Smith); Bridal Suite (Thiele...for Sale (William D. Russell) (as Steve Adams); That F Read more
Markopoulos, Gregory
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Creative Consciousness," interview with David Brooks, in Film Culture (New York), Summer 1967...On MARKOPOULOS: book — Sitney, P. Adams, Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde...New York University in 1951, it caused Henry Hart, then the far-right editor of Films... Read more

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

Quote of the month.(Front and Center)(Henry Brooks Adams on teachers)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Techniques; 9/1/2003; ; 21 words ; A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. --Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918), teacher, historian and editor Read more
ARKANSAS BUSINESS RANKINGS: INDIVIDUAL/FAMILY LAND OWNERS.
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business; 11/29/1999; ; 700 words ; ...870-862-3414) 6. Adams Land and National...8. David Brooks Griffin Family...2332) 13. Henry Land Co. 10...870-862-3414) 6. Adams Land and National...8. David Brooks Griffin Family...2332) 13. Henry Land Co. Farmland...870-862-3414) 6. Adams Land and National...Service Bo ... Read more
Trinity Church, Boston.(Books about Antiques.)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...the Paine family. The second honors Brooks's brother, the Reverend Frederick Brooks. Much disappointed, La Farge began...Whether this was La Farge's idea or Brooks's is less important than the fact...concerns a roman a clef written by Henry Adams, a cousin of Phillips Brooks, who, in ... Read more
1999 Editorial Index.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 8/1/2000; 700+ words ; AUTHOR INDEX ADAMS, Brooks and Usa Liebmann. A Summer Place. Jun...ER Sept 99:122 James Valerio at George Adams Gallery, New York. ER Dec 99:113 BRACH...Projects, New York. ER May 99:150 Paul Henry Ramirez at Caren Golden Fine Art, New... Read more
2000 Editorial Index.(artists exhibitions listings, United States)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 8/1/2001; 700+ words ; AUTHOR INDEX ADAMS, Brooks Konstantin Kakanias at Postmasters Gallery, New York. ER Jan 00: 113-1...Stephanie Design: Thinner, Sleeker, Sexier. Jul 00: 50-53 E.V. Day at Henry Urbach Architecture, New York. ER Oct 00: 167 Eberhard Havekost at Anton... Read more
Congratulations to the following individuals on their status as Life Members of ASMC. Life membership is achieved with 20 years of continuous membership.(American Society of Military Comptrollers)
Magazine article from: Armed Forces Comptroller; 3/22/2006; 700+ words ; Linda Acree J Robert Adams Wayne Adams Neta Adams Bruce Adams Daniel Adamson Timothy Addison Paulette...David Bridges Frankie Brinkley Dorothy Brooks Gary Brooks Janet Brooks Harry Brown Connie Brown Edward Brown...Ruby Culp Marsha Culver Lora Cummins Henry Daniels James ... Read more
The Legal Elite.(Directory)
Magazine article from: Business North Carolina; 1/1/2002; 700+ words ; ...Robert W. Spearman Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein LLP Raleigh...Bern James T. Williams Jr. Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey...Charlotte Christine L. Myatt Adams Kleemeier Hagan Hannah &...William Porter Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein LLP Charlotte...amp; Rice PLLC Winston-Salem ... Read more
Missed it by that much.(LIVING)(Movie review)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 6/20/2008; 497 words ; ...numerous spy series then on the air. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and personified by Don Adams, Maxwell Smart became a clownish version of...the other hand, Steve Carell doesn't try to be Adams, but finds his own way into the character. Carell... Read more
Hastings AC runners keep pace in Bexhill Down mud.
Newspaper article from: Hastings & St. Leonards Observer (St. Leonards-on-Sea, England); 12/8/2006; 485 words ; ...produced a series of impressive runs in the second of this season's Brooks Sussex Cross-Country League meetings at Bexhill Down at the...this event as one of their favourites. Dan Anderson (31.03) and Henry Mountcastle (31.05) battled for the honour of first Hastings... Read more
ASMC lifetime members.
Magazine article from: Armed Forces Comptroller; 9/22/2003; 700+ words ; Abrams, Leonard Acree, Linda J. Adams, J. Robert Adams, Wayne L. Adams, Neta R. Adamson, Daniel P. Addison...Bridges, David C. Brinkley, Frankie E. Brooks, Gary S. Brooks, Dorothy J. Brower, Trecia H. Brown...Douglas A. Daniels, James R. Daniels, Henry W. Daugherty, J R. Dausman, Jack ... Read more