Charles Kendall Adams

Charles Kendall Adams ( born January 24, 1835 in Derby, Orleans County, Vermont, † July 26, 1902 in Redlands, California ) was an American historian and university professor.

Life

At the age of 20 years, Adams twisted first to Iowa, before he shortly afterwards studying at the University of Michigan began, from which he graduated in 1861. In 1863, he was there first assistant professor and then in 1868 took over a full professorship in history at the University of Michigan. There he founded in 1869 the Department of History in Ann Arbor, and thus introduced the European educational establishment of the seminary in the United States.

In 1881 he accepted a call as nichtresidierender Professor of History at Cornell University and in 1885 as the successor of Andrew Dickson White President of the University. During this time he was in 1889 president of the American Historical Association. Subsequently, he was 1892-1901 still president of the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

Publications

Besides his teaching, Adams wrote numerous essays on historical and pedagogical issues as well as some reference books such as:

• Democracy and Monarchy in France ( New York, 1874)
• Questions and notes on the constitutional history of England, for the use of advanced students and postgraduates in the historical seminary ( Ann Arbor, 1879)
• Manual of Historical Literature. Comprising letter descriptions of the most important histories in English, French and German: together with practical suggestions as to methods and courses of historical study: for the use of students, general readers, and collectors of books (New York, 1882)
• Representative British Orations (3 volumes, New York, 1884)
• Christopher Columbus: his life and his work (New York, 1892)
• A history of the United States ( co-author William P. Trent, Boston, posthumously 1903)
• Universal cyclopaedia and atlas (New York, posthumously 1905)