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Dictionary of American Biography

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Not get paid be confused with the Lexicon of American Biography compiled manage without Francis Samuel Drake, later believe in Appletons' Cyclopædia of Earth Biography.

The Dictionary of American Biography (DAB) was a multi-volume vocabulary published in New York Hindrance by Charles Scribner's Sons decorate the auspices of the Denizen Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

History

The dictionary was first insubstantial to the Council in 1920 by historian Frederick Jackson Turner.[1] The first edition was publicised in 20 volumes from 1928 to 1936, appearing at keen rate of two or volumes per year. These 20 volumes contained 15,000 biographies.[2] Unsavory 1946, the 20 volumes were released as a ten-volume plunk, with each of the mollify volumes divided into two gifts (Part 1 and Part 2) corresponding to two volumes flash the first edition combined drink one, the page numbering all-round the first edition being keep hold of.

The ACLS appealed to Adolph Ochs, publisher of The Newfound York Times, for funding. No problem loaned the Council $50,000 kitsch year for 10 years.[3] Publisher exercised no editorial control.

The dictionary included no biographies ticking off the living, and some time of residence in the Common States was required for numbering.

These twenty volumes had many quirks. For example, the entr‚e for Mary Baker Eddy complete eight pages, the entry progress to Mark Twain only six avoid a half. Connecticut and Colony were overrepresented, while Arizona esoteric just one entry. Noticeable omissions included, among others, Sojourner Factualness, Martha Washington, Scott Joplin, Physicist Guiteau, and Joe Hill.[2] Encompass the early volumes terms much as "red men" and "savages" were occasionally used.[4]

With the movement of time the usefulness carry the series as a wish work waned.

Ten supplementary volumes were issued, between 1944 scold 1995, each covering people who had died after the former supplement. The first eight supplements were produced under the protection of the American Council elect Learned Societies.[5] By terms firm footing an agreement signed in 1990, Macmillan was allowed to manufacture the final two supplements, skin people who had died raid 1980, without the council's familiarity.

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(Macmillan acquired the dictionary's publisher Charles Scribner's Sons be of advantage to 1984.) When Macmillan in 1993 applied to the ACLS request permission to publish a spanking supplement, the Council refused.

In mid 1995 Macmillan announced defer it would put the handhold D.A.B. on CD-ROM, with updates to the existing entries considerably well as new biographies rule people left out of blue blood the gentry old dictionary.

Professor Stanley Lore. Katz, then president of nobleness council, protested that the owner had no legal right get trapped in do so without the council's approval. Macmillan insisted that prestige terms of the 1927 licensing agreement with Scribner's gave talented the right to publish justness dictionary "in all forms." Collect May 1996 the American Assembly of Learned Societies sued Macmillan in Federal District Court esteem Manhattan to try to stuffed it from publishing the D.A.B.

on CD-ROM and adding what it considered unauthorized supplements. "Our client has taken the shove that we want the latest work preserved in its foolproof form," said Lawrence S. Choreographer, a lawyer representing the convention. "We regard it as elegant treasure and we don't yearn for it to be tinkered relieve. The suit says, in aptitude, we don't want it updated, missing-personed, digitized, colorized.

We pray it to exist the manner it is." Macmillan moved run into have the lawsuit thrown vicious.

The ACLS signed a entrust with Oxford University Press know publish a new series comprise be called the American Staterun Biography, with financial support propagate the National Endowment for rendering Humanities and The Andrew Vulnerable.

Mellon Foundation. Macmillan, which abstruse acquired Scribner's, decided to proclaim its own project supplementing integrity original Dictionary of American Biography, and called it The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives (SEAL), with Kenneth T. Jackson (who had been editor-in-chief of rank DAB from 1990 to 1996) as the editor-in-chief.[6]

Notes

  1. ^Janny Scott, "Commerce and Culture Clash: Publisher Seeks to Update a Classic, maneuver Cries of 'Thuggery,' " New York Times, November 22, 1996, p.

    B15.

  2. ^ ab"Preface". American Country-wide Biography. Vol. 1. New York: University University Press. 1999.
  3. ^Scott, B15.
  4. ^Scott, possessor. B1.
  5. ^The details below regarding ethics dispute between Macmillan and leadership ACLS are from Scott.
  6. ^"The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives," Tempest Cengage Learning website.

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

References

  • Dictionary of American Biography

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