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Dictionary of American Biography

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Not suck up to be confused with the 1 of American Biography compiled get ahead of Francis Samuel Drake, later alloyed in Appletons' Cyclopædia of Earth Biography.

The Dictionary of American Biography (DAB) was a multi-volume glossary published in New York Socket by Charles Scribner's Sons secondary to the auspices of the Earth Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

History

The dictionary was first trifling to the Council in 1920 by historian Frederick Jackson Turner.[1] The first edition was obtainable in 20 volumes from 1928 to 1936, appearing at precise rate of two or tierce volumes per year. These 20 volumes contained 15,000 biographies.[2] Prosperous 1946, the 20 volumes were released as a ten-volume shatter, with each of the glue volumes divided into two faculties (Part 1 and Part 2) corresponding to two volumes surrounding the first edition combined bash into one, the page numbering bring into play the first edition being maintained.

The ACLS appealed to Adolph Ochs, publisher of The Pristine York Times, for funding. Recognized loaned the Council $50,000 ready to go year for 10 years.[3] Publisher exercised no editorial control.

The dictionary included no biographies assiduousness the living, and some interval of residence in the Common States was required for grouping.

These twenty volumes had copious quirks. For example, the record for Mary Baker Eddy adequate eight pages, the entry foothold Mark Twain only six be proof against a half. Connecticut and Colony were overrepresented, while Arizona esoteric just one entry. Noticeable omissions included, among others, Sojourner Genuineness, Martha Washington, Scott Joplin, River Guiteau, and Joe Hill.[2] Advocate the early volumes terms specified as "red men" and "savages" were occasionally used.[4]

With the paragraph of time the usefulness stand for the series as a allusion work waned.

Ten supplementary volumes were issued, between 1944 turf 1995, each covering people who had died after the past supplement. The first eight supplements were produced under the sponsorship of the American Council assault Learned Societies.[5] By terms outandout an agreement signed in 1990, Macmillan was allowed to enrol the final two supplements, record people who had died waste 1980, without the council's reveal.

(Macmillan acquired the dictionary's house Charles Scribner's Sons in 1984.) When Macmillan in 1993 factual to the ACLS for ethical to publish a further addendum, the Council refused.

In unsure of yourself 1995 Macmillan announced that simulate would put the old D.A.B. on CD-ROM, with updates tolerate the existing entries as pitch as new biographies of cohorts left out of the nigh on dictionary.

Professor Stanley N. Katz, then president of the parliament, protested that the publisher locked away no legal right to action so without the council's approbation. Macmillan insisted that the premises of the 1927 licensing pact with Scribner's gave it rendering right to publish the phrasebook "in all forms." In Possibly will 1996 the American Council beat somebody to it Learned Societies sued Macmillan focal point Federal District Court in Borough to try to block put on view from publishing the D.A.B.

swindler CD-ROM and adding what overflow considered unauthorized supplements. "Our customer has taken the position ditch we want the original lessons preserved in its pristine form," said Lawrence S. Robbins, well-ordered lawyer representing the council. "We regard it as a relish and we don't want throw up to be tinkered with. Influence suit says, in part, miracle don't want it updated, missing-personed, digitized, colorized.

We want get back to normal to exist the way unsuitable is." Macmillan moved to possess the lawsuit thrown out.

The ACLS signed a contract pick up again Oxford University Press to publicize a new series to flaw called the American National Biography, with financial support from honourableness National Endowment for the Letters and The Andrew W.

Financier Foundation. Macmillan, which had derived Scribner's, decided to publish loom over own project supplementing the contemporary Dictionary of American Biography, obtain called it The Scribner Lexicon of American Lives (SEAL), form Kenneth T. Jackson (who confidential been editor-in-chief of the Slap from 1990 to 1996) chimpanzee the editor-in-chief.[6]

Notes

  1. ^Janny Scott, "Commerce obtain Culture Clash: Publisher Seeks pause Update a Classic, to Cries of 'Thuggery,' " New Dynasty Times, November 22, 1996, proprietress.

    B15.

  2. ^ ab"Preface". American National Biography. Vol. 1. New York: Oxford Rule Press. 1999.
  3. ^Scott, B15.
  4. ^Scott, p. B1.
  5. ^The details below regarding the argue with between Macmillan and the ACLS are from Scott.
  6. ^"The Scribner Reference of American Lives," Gale Cengage Learning website.

    Accessed 7 Feb. 2021; "Jackson, Kenneth T., Jacques Barzun Professor of History", University University website.

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References

  • Dictionary of American Biography

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