Article: Henry Adams & the need to know.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: The Lives of The Lafayette Square Literati;Author Patricia ...
The Washington Post;  June 10, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880 ... Lafayette Square. Henry Adams, also a historian ... the Massachusetts Historical Society. No painted portrait ... found by a niece in Henry Adams's desk, 33 years ...

Article: The education of Henry Adams; a centennial ...
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2007 ;     522 words ... ... 9780934909914 The education of Henry Adams; a centennial version. Adams ... privately in 1907, The Education of Henry Adams contained hundreds of printer ... and Wright (Massachusetts Historical Society) started over. Using four copies ...

Article: Writing, and rewriting, history. (adapted from an address to the ...
The New Leader;  December 30, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... as human history," John Lothrop Motley told the NewYork Historical Society in a rare confessional moment in 1868. "Nothing can be ... past. Yet in a few more years that incorrigible skeptic, Henry Adams, was exhorting his fellow historians to produce a science ...

Article: Henry Adams
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...Henry Adams 1838-1918, American writer and historian ... era, presented in The Education of Henry Adams (privately printed 1906, pub. 1918 ... Adams and prefaced with a memoir by Henry Adams, contains three brilliant essays on ...

Article: Henry Adams is the subject of a colloquium and ...
M2 Presswire;  February 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... 28 February 2003-YALE UNIVERSITY: Henry Adams is the subject of a colloquium and lectures ... RDATE:02282003 New Haven, Conn. -- Henry Adams-his life, work and influence-is ... minister to England during the Civil War. Henry Adams worked as a personal secretary to his ...

Article: Henry Adams, Sleuth
The Washington Post;  September 17, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... believable, of a few weeks in the life of Henry Adams, the historian and memoirist. It is ... he would confront in The Education of Henry Adams. Readers who share my uneasiness about ... times this is warranted, chiefly when "Henry Adams" does things that one finds it difficult ...

Article: The Political Education of Henry Adams. (book ...
Civil War History;  June 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... more to define a historical period than Henry Adams. His acidic descriptions of the Grant ... of GildedAge politics soon finds that Henry Adams played at best a peripheral role in ... clarity in Simpson's lucid pages is that Henry Adams never enjoyed significant political ...