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John Spencer Bassett
John Spencer Bassett

John Spencer Bassett

American historian
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Sept. 10, 1867, Tarboro, N.C., American
Died:
Jan. 27, 1928, Washington, D.C. (aged 60)

John Spencer Bassett (born Sept. 10, 1867, Tarboro, N.C., American—died Jan. 27, 1928, Washington, D.C.) was an American historian and founder of the South Atlantic Quarterly, influential in the development of historiography in the American South. A graduate of Trinity College (now Duke University), Durham, N.C., in 1888, he received a doctorate in 1894 from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and taught history at Trinity College (1893–1906) and at Smith College, Northampton, Mass. (1906 until his death). During his tenure at Trinity he was actively engaged in collecting historical works on the South and by 1902 had launched the South Atlantic ...(100 of 181 words)

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