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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

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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 change and recorded the implications of the period with great perception. He is best known for "Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres...
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...brother Brooks Adams . This work sets forth Henry Adams's dynamic theory of history...
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.
Peter Chardon Brooks Adams
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...was the daughter of Peter Chardon Brooks, a wealthy Massachusetts merchant...Adams is Arthur F. Beringause, Brooks Adams: A Biography (1955), but its...difficult. Timothy Paul Donovan, Henry Adams and Brooks Adams: The Education...
Brooks Adams
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Brooks Adams 1848-1927, American historian...son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). His theory...Civilization and Decay (1895). Adams applied it to his own capitalistic...greatly influenced his brother Henry Adams , whose essays he edited...
Adams, Brooks
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Adams, Brooks (1848–1927) US historian. Brother of Henry Brooks Adams , his influential book Law of Civilization...America's Economic Supremacy (1900), Adams predicted the decline of Western Europe...
Henry Adams
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...influenced by his brother, Brooks Adams , he found a satisfactory...presented in The Education of Henry Adams (privately printed 1906...1919), edited by Brooks Adams and prefaced with...1930-38); J. T. Adams, Henry Adams (1933, repr...
Adams, Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...U.S. congressman and diplomat, and Abigail Brooks Adams, he was also the great‐grandson and grandson of two Presidents, John Adams and John Quincy Adams . Henry grew up in Boston, summering at the Adams homestead...
Adams, Charles Francis
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...John Adams (1850–56), the letters of Abigail Adams, and the Memoirs of John Quincy Adams (12 vols., 1874–77). Henry, Brooks, and Charles Francis Adams, Jr., were his sons.
Mel Brooks
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Mel Brooks Mel Brooks (born 1926...Old Man," in which Brooks played a smart-alecky...Year-Old Man" was Brooks's first big success...Brooks and writer Buck Henry developed the hit television...genre. Starring Don Adams as the bumbling secret...

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Oratory
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...and Patrick Henry. In Henry's great speeches on...reigned in Congress until Henry Clay, John Calhoun...speakers included John Quincy Adams, Thomas Hart Benton...defended agnosticism; and Henry W. Grady championed the...Ward Beecher, Phillips Brooks, and Harry Emerson Fosdick...
Holland, Henry
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Holland, Henry (1745–1806). Leading English Georgian architect...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–...
Crédit Mobilier of America
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...president; the new Vice President Henry Wilson; and Representative James...United States. Representative James Brooks (D-N.Y.) was censured. Other...Warner's The Gilded Age (1873) and Henry Adams's Democracy (1880), the Cr...
Grant, Cary
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...and the Hawk (Walker) (as Henry Crocker); Gambling Ship...Serenade (Stevens) (as Roger Adams); Suspicion (Hitchcock...Lucky (Potter) (as Joe Adams) 1944 Destination Tokyo (Daves...short) 1950 Crisis (Richard Brooks) (as Dr. Eugene Ferguson...
Malden, Karl
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Red) 1944 Winged Victory (Cukor) (as Adams) 1946 13 Rue Madeleine (Hathaway...as Lt. Thomas); The Gunfighter (Henry King) (as Mac); Halls of Montezuma...Latrec) 1953 Take the High Ground (Richard Brooks) (as Sgt. Laverne Holt); I Confess...
Reynolds, Burt
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1961 Angel Baby (Wendkos) (as Hoke Adams); Armored Command (Haskin) (as Skee...as Walker) 1976 Silent Movie (Mel Brooks) (as himself); Nickelodeon (Bogdanovich...as himself) 1993 Cop and a Half (Henry Winkler) (as Nick McKenna) 1995 The...
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...
Markopoulos, Gregory
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Consciousness," interview with David Brooks, in Film Culture (New York), Summer...MARKOPOULOS: book— Sitney, P. Adams, Visionary Film: The American Avant...New York University in 1951, it caused Henry Hart, then the far-right editor of Films...
Young, Robert
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1934 Carolina (The House of Connelly ) (Henry King) (as Will Connelly); Spitfire...Linden) 1939 Honolulu (Buzzell) (as Brooks Mason/George Smith); Bridal Suite...Sale (William D. Russell) (as Steve Adams); That Forsyte Woman (The Forsyte Saga

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Quote of the month.(Front and Center)(Henry Brooks Adams on teachers)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Techniques; 9/1/2003; ; 407 words ; "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." --Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918), teacher, historian and editor
Henry Adams is the subject of a colloquium and lectures by Garry Wills at Yale.
M2 Presswire; 2/28/2003; 700+ words ; ...53 Wall St., March 3-5. Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) was the great-grandson of President John Adams, the grandson of President John...to England during the Civil War. Henry Adams worked as a personal secretary...
OPENING DAY ; Interest in all things Adams remains high as park opens for season
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 4/20/2009; ; 629 words ; ...The park tells the story of four generations of the Adams family who lived in the house - John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Henry Adams and Brooks Adams - from 1788 to 1927. The tour begins with the birthplaces of John Adams, the second American...
CASE FOR ADAMS MONUMENT GETS BOOST PROPOSAL TO BUILD MEMORIAL COINCIDES WITH NEW BIOGRAPHY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/21/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...the second president, and Louisa Adams, the wife of the sixth. In addition...Quincy's son, Charles Francis Adams, a member of Congress and US ambassador...and Charles Francis's sons, Henry and Brooks Adams. The bill does not specify a site...
MEDFORD OFFERS HOME TO SWIFT FAMILY COUNCIL PROFFERS THE BROOKS ESTATE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/27/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...s wedding. Now the historic Brooks Estate in West Medford has been...17th century. And John Quincy Adams attended the wedding there of...Abigail Brooks in 1829. Another Adams, historian Henry Adams, would recall in his autobiography...
Henry elected commission chairman: Bill Hullander chosen as vice chairman.
Newspaper article from: Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN); 9/7/2006; 700+ words ; ...Mackey and John Allen Brooks for their support, and he noted Mr. Adams' pivotal role in...Certainly Larry Henry supported Commissioner...CHAIRMAN For Larry Henry: Curtis Adams Jim Coppinger Larry Henry John Allen Brooks* Greg Beck* Warren...
Neglected jewel to shine again Medford prepares for restoration of Brooks Estate
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/14/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...to save the historic Brooks Estate, a wooded preserve...President John Quincy Adams attended the wedding...Brooks in 1829. Another Adams, the acclaimed historian Henry, would later recall...opulence described by Henry Adams, however, long ago...
Gifted Teaching: Thought and Action.
Magazine article from: Roeper Review; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907 While our contemporary language is gender neutral, Henry Brooks Adams nevertheless captured...
Come and teach the best of Oakland's future
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 8/17/2007; ; 700+ words ; IN 1907, Henry Brooks Adams, the Harvard professor, historian and pioneer of the seminar system, began circulating copies of "The Education of Henry Adams." The book, which would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize, provided...
The Superpower Book Swap; 1,000 Soviet Volumes at the King Library
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/27/1988; ; 700+ words ; ...sold in the Soviet Union. This effort, coordinated by both governments, begins with "The Education of Henry Adams" by Henry Brooks Adams. The Adams book is being proofread by USIA officials before it is returned to the Soviets for printing...