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American History: During the 1920's, Hansen explored American and European archives, using previously untouched sources of statistics and ethnic history. His two major works, The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 (1940) and The Mingling of the Canadian and American Peoples (1940), were published posthumously. These and The Immigrant in American History (1940) remain landmarks of historical and stylistic lucidity. Attributing to foreign settlers the same virtue of individualistic enterprise that Turner ascribed to native pioneers, Hansen "ventured successfully," as the historian Carl Wittke said, "into what he called 'that dim continent of knowledge called social history.'Harsha is credited with the authorship of three Sanskrit plays—two comedies, Ratndvali and Priyadarsikd, named for their heroines, and a drama, Ndgdnanda ("The Joy of the Serpents"). B. G. GOKHALE, Wake Forest University HART, Albert Bushnell (1854-1943), American scholar, who was one of the most influential historians of his time. He was born in Clarks-ville, Pa., on July 1, 1854, and was a professor of history (1897-1910) and of government (1910-1926) at Harvard University. He was editor of the American Historical Review (1895—1909) and president of the American Historical Association (1909) as well as of the American Political Science Association (1912). Hart's main contribution was to stress the study of history through the examination of original sources. He was author, joint author, or editor of about 100 books. These included the American Nation series (1904-1918), a collaborative landmark of history and analysis by noted scholars, in 28 volumes, and American History Told by Contemporaries (1897-1929), in five volumes. Also widely used was his Guide to the Study of American History (1912 ed.), prepared in collaboration with Edward Channing and Frederick Jackson Turner. His own best-known writings include Salmon Portland Chase (1899) and Slavery and Abolition (1906).
Frequently revised and brought up to date, they remained standard texts in English and American schools for nearly a century, as did his 8-volume History of Earth and Animated Nature (1774), a survey of natural history drawn from many sources, but enlivened and enriched by his own observations. |
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