Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of The Massachusetts Historical Society

by Louis L. Tucker, Ondine LeBlanc (Editor)

Overview

Former 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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780934909273
Publisher:	Distribution
Publication date:	03/15/2005
Pages:	149
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.25(d)
Age Range:	18 Years