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Herbert Baxter Adams—American

Birth

Herbert Baxter Adams, American educator and historian, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, 16 April, 1850.

Herbert Baxter Adams was born in Shutesburg, Mass., on April 16, 1850.

Education

HERBERT BAXTER ADAMS (1850-1901), American historian and educationalist, was born at Shutesbury (near Amherst), Massachusetts, on the 16th of April 1850. He graduated at Amherst, at the head of his class, in 1872;� and between 1873 and 1876 he studied political science, history and economics at Göttingen, Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany, receiving the degree of Ph.D.at Heidelberg in 1876, with the highest honours (summa cum laude).

Adams, Herbert Baxter→ See the modern Wikipedia entry at Henry Adams. Adams, Henry (1838), LL.D., American historical writer, third son of the late Charles Francis Adams, was born in Boston, Mass., and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in 1858.

Fame

Pieter M. Judson of Swarthmore College has been awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize by the American Historical Association.

Scott has received many prestigious awards for her work, including a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for the best first book by an American author on European history, the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History, and the Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award for Graduate Teaching, all from the American Historical Association.

Work

Herbert Baxter Adams, one of Frederick Jackson Turner's professors at Johns Hopkins University, was an influential advocate of the "germ theory" that held that all American institutions derived from medieval Germany and spread with European migrants to the New World.

Herbert Baxter Adams As a historian and teacher, Herbert Baxter Adams (1850-1901) was important in establishing the professional study of history in American universities.

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (Adams, Herbert Baxter) Adams, John→ See also Herbert Baxter Adams on Wikipedia, and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer. ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850-1901), American historian and educationalist, was born at Shutesbury (near Amherst), Massachusetts, on the 16th of April 1850.

Herbert Baxter Adams is cred with coining the phrase "political science" while teaching history at Johns Hopkins University.

Herbert Baxter Adams, of Johns Hopkins University, for example, a principal advocate of the university extension movement, wished that "every great public library should become, in its own field, a people's university, the highest of high schools in the community" [38, p. 184].

Herbert Baxter Adams (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1970) Columbus and his discovery of America (Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science) by Herbert Baxter Adams (Library Binding - Jan 1, 1970)

Herbert Baxter Adams, John→ See the modern Wikipedia entry at Herbert Baxter Adams. ... He also became historical lecturer at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., and for a time lectured at Chautauqua. He took part in the inception of the American Historical Association and acted as its first secretary, subsequently becoming first vice-president. He edited an important series of educational monographs issued by the U. S. Bureau of Education, and was editor also of the Johns Hopkins Studies in History and Political Science.