| LC control no. | n 82108865 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rhodes, James Ford, 1848-1927 |
| Located | Cambridge (Mass.) Boston (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1848-05-01 |
| Death date | 1927-01-22 |
| Place of birth | Cleveland (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Brookline (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | History French literature Iron--Metallurgy |
| Affiliation | University of the City of New York University of Chicago (1857-1886) American Historical Association |
| Profession or occupation | Historians Businesspeople Authors |
| Found in | History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, 1919: title page (James Ford Rhodes, LL.D., D. Litt.; Author of The History of the United States from the compromise of 1850 to the final restoration of home rule at the South in 1877; Historical essays; Lectures on the American Civil War delivered at Oxford) Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, January 20, 2022: (RHODES, JAMES FORD (1 May 1848-22 Jan. 1927), historian and businessman, was born in Cleveland. He attended the University of the City of New York (1865-66) and University of Chicago (1866-67), but never graduated. Rhodes studied history and French literature in Paris and iron metallurgy at the Berlin School of Mines. In 1884, Rhodes retired from business to devote his life to studying and writing history. Rhodes published articles in the Magazine of Western History (1885-86), and wrote the first 2 volumes of his 7-volume History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 before moving to Cambridge, Mass. in 1891, and to Boston in 1895. He published many books, in 1918 receiving the Pulitzer Prize in history for his History of the Civil War, 1861-1865. In 1898-99 he was president of the American Historical Assoc. Rhodes died in Brookline, Mass.) |
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