Herbert Baxter Adams - Sources

Historian and educator, born in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Amherst College and Heidelberg University, and joined the newly-formed Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, as professor of history in 1876. His major publication was the Life and Writings of Jared Sparks (1893).

Herbert Baxter Adams (April 16, 1850 – July 30, 1901) was an American educator and historian.

Adams was born in Shutesbury, Massachusetts.

He was a fellow in history at Johns Hopkins University from 1876 to 1878, associate from 1878 to 1883, and was appointed associate professor in 1883.

At Johns Hopkins, in 1880, he began his famous seminar in history, where a large proportion of the next generation of American historians trained. Adams founded the "Johns Hopkins Studies in Historical and Political Science," the first of such series, and brought about the organization in 1884 of the American Historical Association.

He was the secretary of the American Historical Association at its foundation in 1884. Methods of Historical Study, and Maryland's Influence upon Land Cessions to the United States. All these papers are published in the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, edited by Prof.

Herbert B. Adams House, one of the undergraduate dormitories at Johns Hopkins University, is named in his honor.

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Encyclopedia Britannica Encyclopedia Britannica: Adams, Herbert Baxter

This article incorporates text from the public domain Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography.