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John Spencer Bassett

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

John Spencer Bassett 1867-1928, American historian, b. Tarboro, N.C. He was professor of history at Trinity College (now Duke Univ.) from 1893 to 1906 and then at Smith from 1906 to 1928. Bassett founded (1902) the South Atlantic Quarterly. Chief among his writings are The Federalist System, 1789-1801 (1906, repr. 1968; Vol. II in the "American Nation" series), The Life of Andrew Jackson (1911, repr. 1967), and The Middle Group of American Historians (1917). He also edited much original material, including The Writings of Colonel William Byrd?… (1901) and... Read more

The 1900s: Education: Deaths
American Decades ... Education, 21 July 1900. Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett, 74, educator and diplomat; former principal ... death on 26 March 1902, British-born Cecil John Rhodes, who made a fortune in the diamond ... Scholarships for study at Oxford University. John D. Runkle, 79, professor, president of ... philanthropist, 22 ... Read more

William Byrd
Encyclopedia of World Biography ... standard source on Byrd is the biographical sketch in The Writings of "Colonel William Byrd … ," edited by John Spencer Bassett (1901). See also Louis B. Wright, The Cultural Life of the American Colonies, 1607-1763 (1957), and Wesley Frank ... Read more

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