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Edward Perkins Channing (June 15, 1856 – January 7, 1931) was an American historian and an author of a monumental History of the United States in six volumes, for which he won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History.
Biografia. Nato a Dorchester, nello stato statunitense del Massachusetts, fu il quinto figlio di Ellen Kilshaw Fuller (1820–56), sorella di Margaret Fuller e di William Ellery Channing (1818–1901). Nel 1880 terminò gli studi all' università di Harvard ed ottenne il dottorato in filosofia.
11 giu 2024 · Edward Channing (born June 15, 1856, Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S.—died January 7, 1931, Cambridge) was an American historian best remembered for a monumental study of his country’s development from ad 1000 through the American Civil War (1861–65).
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Edward Channing (June 15, 1856–January 7, 1931), teacher of history in Harvard University since 1883, professor since 1897, one of the founders of the American Historical Association and its president in 1920, died on January 7, at the age of 74.
About this book. Twenty years after Edward Channing's death in 1931, historians differed rather widely in their evaluation of his work. A British author, surveying American historiography since 1890, was quite critical of Channing's major contribution, the six-volume History of the United States, contending that it "won only a contemporary ...
Thus Edward Channing began his autobiography when he sat down to write in 1929, two years before his death. This opening passage says a great deal about the man. His original remark about the validity of old men’s reminiscences is indicative of his questioning...
11 giu 2018 · The historian Edward Channing (1856-1931), a specialist in American colonial and Revolutionary history, is best known for his multivolume "History of the United States ." Edward Channing, born on June 15, 1856, in Dorchester, Mass., was the son of William Ellery Channing the younger, a poet.
