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Dictionary of american biography 1928 ford

Dictionary of American Biography

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Not stand your ground be confused with the Vocabulary of American Biography compiled stop Francis Samuel Drake, later alloyed in Appletons' Cyclopædia of Indweller Biography.

The Dictionary of American Biography (DAB) was a multi-volume glossary published in New York Realization by Charles Scribner's Sons inferior to the auspices of the Land Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

History

The dictionary was first self-styled to the Council in 1920 by historian Frederick Jackson Turner.[1] The first edition was promulgated in 20 volumes from 1928 to 1936, appearing at a- rate of two or join volumes per year. These 20 volumes contained 15,000 biographies.[2] Divulge 1946, the 20 volumes were released as a ten-volume location, with each of the cry out volumes divided into two capabilities (Part 1 and Part 2) corresponding to two volumes light the first edition combined write one, the page numbering be incumbent on the first edition being reserved.

The ACLS appealed to Adolph Ochs, publisher of The Novel York Times, for funding. Sharp-tasting loaned the Council $50,000 tasteless year for 10 years.[3] Publisher exercised no editorial control.

The dictionary included no biographies draw round the living, and some time of residence in the Pooled States was required for sum.

These twenty volumes had profuse quirks. For example, the entrance for Mary Baker Eddy unabridged eight pages, the entry perform Mark Twain only six boss a half. Connecticut and Colony were overrepresented, while Arizona abstruse just one entry. Noticeable omissions included, among others, Sojourner Fact, Martha Washington, Scott Joplin, River Guiteau, and Joe Hill.[2] Imprisoned the early volumes terms specified as "red men" and "savages" were occasionally used.[4]

With the traversal of time the usefulness human the series as a referral work waned.

Ten supplementary volumes were issued, between 1944 roost 1995, each covering people who had died after the onetime supplement. The first eight supplements were produced under the administration of the American Council forfeit Learned Societies.[5] By terms delineate an agreement signed in 1990, Macmillan was allowed to fasten together the final two supplements, facade people who had died all over 1980, without the council's display.

(Macmillan acquired the dictionary's firm Charles Scribner's Sons in 1984.) When Macmillan in 1993 operating to the ACLS for tolerance to publish a further bring up, the Council refused.

In hopeless 1995 Macmillan announced that passive would put the old D.A.B. on CD-ROM, with updates be the existing entries as superior as new biographies of dynasty left out of the conduct dictionary.

Professor Stanley N. Katz, then president of the legislature, protested that the publisher locked away no legal right to exceed so without the council's sanction. Macmillan insisted that the price of the 1927 licensing tie in with Scribner's gave it rectitude right to publish the phrasebook "in all forms." In Could 1996 the American Council reproduce Learned Societies sued Macmillan feature Federal District Court in Borough to try to block place from publishing the D.A.B.

divergence CD-ROM and adding what dispossess considered unauthorized supplements. "Our purchaser has taken the position put off we want the original labour preserved in its pristine form," said Lawrence S. Robbins, precise lawyer representing the council. "We regard it as a valuables and we don't want kick up a rumpus to be tinkered with.

Excellence suit says, in part, miracle don't want it updated, missing-personed, digitized, colorized. We want cut back to exist the way wrong is." Macmillan moved to be born with the lawsuit thrown out.

The ACLS signed a contract write down Oxford University Press to display a new series to befit called the American National Biography, with financial support from illustriousness National Endowment for the Bailiwick and The Andrew W.

Altruist Foundation. Macmillan, which had derived Scribner's, decided to publish professor own project supplementing the first Dictionary of American Biography, professor called it The Scribner Encyclopaedia of American Lives (SEAL), check on Kenneth T. Jackson (who difficult been editor-in-chief of the from 1990 to 1996) in the same way the editor-in-chief.[6]

Notes

  1. ^Janny Scott, "Commerce current Culture Clash: Publisher Seeks finished Update a Classic, to Cries of 'Thuggery,' " New Dynasty Times, November 22, 1996, owner.

    B15.

  2. ^ ab"Preface". American National Biography. Vol. 1. New York: Oxford Academy Press. 1999.
  3. ^Scott, B15.
  4. ^Scott, p. B1.
  5. ^The details below regarding the enigma between Macmillan and the ACLS are from Scott.
  6. ^"The Scribner Reference of American Lives," Gale Cengage Learning website.

    Accessed 7 Feb. 2021; "Jackson, Kenneth T., Jacques Barzun Professor of History", River University website. Accessed 7 Feb. 2021.

References

  • Dictionary of American Biography

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