Evarts Boutell Greene

Evarts Boutell Greene ( * 1870 in Kobe, † 1947) was an American historian specializing in American colonial history, the American Revolution and the War of Independence.

Greene was the son of missionaries in Japan. He studied history at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1890 and his doctorate in 1893. Thereafter he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, where he was from 1906 to 1913 dean of the College of Arts and Literature. From 1923 he taught at Columbia University, where he was in 1926 the first De Witt Clinton Professor and 1936 until his retirement in 1939 the Executive Board of the Institute of Japanese Studies.

Among his doctoral students were Allan Nevins, his successor as Clinton Professor at Columbia University, and Richard B. Morris. In 1930 he was president of the American Historical Association.

He was a descendant of Roger Sherman.

Writings

  • The Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North America, Longmans, Green 1898
  • Provincial America, 1690-1740, New York: Harper 1905, Greenwood Press 1980
  • The Foundations of American Nationality, New York: American Book Company, 1922, 2nd edition 1935
  • With Richard B. Morris: A Guide to the Principal Sources for Early American History (1600-1800) in the City of New York, Columbia University Press 1929
  • With Virginia D. Harrington: American Population before the Federal Census of 1790, Columbia University Press, 1932, Baltimore 1993
  • The Revolutionary Generation, 1763-1790, Macmillan 1943
  • Religion and the state; the making and testing of an American tradition, New York University Press, Oxford University Press 1941
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