Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1867, Sept. 10 | Born, Tarboro, N.C. |
| 1888 | B.A., Trinity College, Randolph County, N.C. (later Duke University, Durham, N.C.) |
| 1890 | Instructor in English, Trinity College, Randolph County, N.C. Founded "9019," student scholarship group, Trinity College, Randolph County, N.C. |
| 1892 | Married Jessie Lewellin |
| 1894 | Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Published The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina, 1663-1729 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 73 pp.) Published The Regulators of North Carolina, 1765-1771 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office. 72 pp.) |
| 1894-1906 | Professor of history, Trinity College, Randolph County, N.C. |
| 1895 | Published Suffrage in the State of North Carolina, 1776-1861 (Washington: American Historical Association. 17 pp.) |
| 1896 | Published Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 86 pp.) |
| 1898 | Published Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 74 pp.) |
| 1899 | Published Slavery in the State of North Carolina (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 111 pp.) |
| 1901 | Founder and editor, South Atlantic Quarterly (resigned as editor, 1905) Published The Writings of "Colonel William Byrd, of Westover, in Virginia, Esqr." (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, & Co.) |
| 1903 | Published "Stirring Up the Fires of Race Antipathy." South Atlantic Quarterly 2 (Oct. 1903): 107-113 |
| 1906-1928 | Professor of history, Smith College, Northampton, Mass. |
| 1906 | Published The Federalist System, 1789-1801 (New York: Harper and Brothers. 327 pp.) |
| 1911 | Published Life of Andrew Jackson (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, & Co. 2 vols.) |
| 1913 | Published A Short History of the United States (New York: Macmillan Co. 885 pp.) |
| 1916 | Published The Plain Story of American History (New York: Macmillan Co. 545 pp.) |
| 1917 | Published The Middle Group of American Historians (New York: Macmillan Co. 324 pp.) Published Correspondence of George Bancroft and Jared Sparks, 1823-1832 (Northampton, Mass.: Department of History, Smith College. 77 pp.) |
| 1918 | Published The Lost Fruits of Waterloo (New York: Macmillan Co. 289 pp.) |
| 1919 | Published Our War With Germany: A History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 386 pp.) |
| 1919-1928 | Secretary, American Historical Association |
| 1920 | Chairman, advisory group, Democratic National Committee |
| 1922 | Published Letters of Francis Parkman to Pierre Margry (Northampton, Mass: Department of History, Smith College. 86 pp.) |
| 1925 | Published The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in His Letters (Northampton, Mass.: Department of History of Smith College. 280 pp.) |
| 1926 | Published Expansion and Reform, 1889-1926 (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. 355 pp.) |
| 1926-1935 | Published Correspondence of Andrew Jackson (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington. 7 vols.) |
| 1928 | Published Makers of A New Nation (New Haven: Yale University Press. 344 pp.) Published The League of Nations: A Chapter in World Politics (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. 415 pp.) |
| 1928, Jan. 27 | Died, Washington, D.C. |