James Ford Rhodes

James Ford Rhodes ( born May 1, 1848 in Cleveland, Ohio; † January 22, 1927 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an American historian, in 1918 for his book A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 Pulitzer Prize received for history.

Life

Rhodes, son of the entrepreneur Daniel P. Rhodes studied, post-school, first from 1865 to 1866 at New York University (NYU ) and after 1866-1867 at the University of Chicago. Then he entered the iron and steel company of his father and purchased there over the next two decades a large fortune so that he in 1885 to retire and could devote his private studies in the history of the United States.

In 1893 he began the publication of a seven-volume history of the United States, entitled History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850, the seventh volume was published in 1906. In 1898 he was elected for a one-year term as President of the American Historical Association.

In 1917 his portrayal of the Civil War, entitled A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, for which he was awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for history.

Publications

  • History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850, 1893-1906, 7 volumes
  • History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, 1917
  • Historical Essays, 1909 Essays
  • Lectures on the American Civil War, 1913, Essays
  • The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations 1897-1909, 1922

Background literature

  • John R. Lynch: Some Historical Errors of James Ford Rhodes, 1922
  • MA DeWolfe Howe: James Ford Rhodes: American Historian, 1929
  • John A. Garraty (Editor): The Barber and the Historian: The Correspondence of George A. Myers and James Ford Rhodes, 1910-1923, 1956
  • Robert Cruden: James Ford Rhodes: The Man, the Historian and His Work, 1961
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