George Burton Adams

George Burton Adams (June 3, 1851May 26, 1925) was an American medievalist historian who taught at Yale University from 1888 to 1925.

Adams was born to on Calvin Carlton and Emeline Adams ( Nelson) on June 3, 1851, in Fairfield, Vermont. His father was a Congregational clergyman.

He was noted for his written works as well as his 1908 address as president of the American Historical Association, which lamented the encroachment of the social sciences on the field of history, a position later challenged by James Harvey Robinson. He also played a key role in the establishment of the ''American Historical Review''. Adams was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1899, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1918.

He died on May 26, 1925, in New Haven, Connecticut. Provided by Wikipedia
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    New York : London : The Macmillan Co. ; Macmillan & Co., 1914,[c1899]
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    New York : London : The Macmillan Co. ; Macmillan & Co., 1921, [c1896]
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    New York ; Chicago [etc.] : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1914]
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    New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919.
    21 p. ; 23 cm.
    Also available via the Internet from the HathiTrust, Google Books, and Internet Archive Web sites.
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    New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895, [c1894]
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    New York : London : The Macmillan Co. ; Macmillan & Co., 1912, [c1899]
    xxviii, 474 p. : ill., ports., maps ; 21 cm.
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    by Bémont, Charles, 1848-1939
    Published 1902
    New York, H. Holt and company, 1902.
    vii, 556 p. 10 maps.(part double.) 20 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Adams, George Burton, 1851-1925...”
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    by Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
    Published 1891
    New York, H. Holt and company, 1891.
    xv, 534 p. maps. 19 cm.
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