Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of the Massachusetts Historical SocietyFormer Massachusetts Historical Society director Louis Leonard Tucker's Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of the Massachusetts Historical Society offers not only a useful biographical sketch of Belknap, but also a close examination of his values as a historian and an in-depth treatment of the beginnings of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Belknap's preeminent role in the establishment of the Society in 1791 (as the first historical society in the Americas). |
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Contents
BIOGRAPHY | 3 |
THE HISTORIAN | 27 |
FOUNDING THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | 59 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of the Massachusetts Historical Society |
| Author | Louis Leonard Tucker |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | The Society, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 16, 2008 |
| ISBN | 093490927X, 9780934909273 |
| Length | 149 pages |
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