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Citizenship
  
United States

Fields
  
History

Role
  
Historian

Name
  
Wilbur Abbott


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Born
  
December 28, 1869Kokomo, Indiana (
1869 -12-28
)

Institutions
  
Cornell UniversityUniversity of MichiganDartmouth CollegeUniversity of KansasYale UniversityHarvard University

Alma mater
  
Wabash CollegeCornell University

Died
  
February 3, 1947, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

People also search for
  
Jean Jules Jusserand, Charles W. Colby, Robert G. Albion

Books
  
Conflicts with Oblivion, A Bibliography of Oliver, Colonel Thomas Blood - Cr, Colonel John Scott, Colonel John Scott of Long Is

Notable students
  
Robert G. Albion

Wilbur Cortez Abbott (December 28, 1869 – February 3, 1947) was an American historian and educator, born at Kokomo, Indiana. He graduated from Wabash College in 1892. Afterward, he studied at Cornell University (1892—95 and at Oxford in 1897 where he received the degree of B. Litt.

Contents

Wilbur Cortez Abbott Essays in Modern English History in Honor of Wilbur Cortez Abbott

In the United States, he worked at various institutions of higher learning (Cornell, University of Michigan, Dartmouth, University of Kansas, before being hired in 1908 at Yale. During his time at Yale he gained wide scholastic attention with the publication of The Expansion of Europe in 1917.

In 1920 he was offered a position at Harvard University, in substitution of Harold Laski. At Harvarard Abbott became the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History. There he also became a stock-holder in the Harvard Cooperative Society, and an Associate of Lowell House.

Abbott was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1921.

Abbott was an admirer of Oliver Cromwell (a notable English military and political leader in the 17th Century), owning memorabilia of his and authoring a bibliography book of Cromwell's works.

Abbott advised Robert G. Albion in his notable doctoral thesis Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy, published in 1926.

Author

He wrote

  • Colonel Thomas Blood, Crown Stealer (1911)
  • Expansion of Europe (1917)
  • Colonel John Scott of Long Island (1918)
  • Conflicts with Oblivion (1924)
  • New York in the American revolution
  • The War and American Democracy
  • The New Barbarians
  • A Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell
  • Honors

    Around 1930 Abbott visited Finland, where The Harvard Crimson recounts "the Professor landed in Finland only to discover that he was something of a national figure. He was feted; he was invited to important function; his picture was printed in the papers. Professor Abbott has always been fond of Finland"

    Essays in Modern English History in Honor of Wilbur Cortez Abbott, Harvard University Press, 1941

    References

    Wilbur Cortez Abbott Wikipedia


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