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John Spencer Bassett

(Bassett, John Spencer, 1867-1928)

Portrait of John Spencer Bassett (1867–1928) from Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Volume XIX, Number 3, May 1928, frontispiece
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John Spencer Bassett (September 10, 1867 – January 27, 1928) was an American historian. He was a professor at Trinity College (today Duke University), and is best known today for the "Bassett Affair" in 1903 when he publicly criticized racism among Southern elites, and called Booker T. Washington, "all in all the greatest man, save General Lee, born in the South in 100 years." Despite widespread outrage, the college trustees refused to accept Bassett's resignation by a vote of 18 to 7. After Trinity, he became a professor of history at Smith College in Massachusetts. and was the executive director of the American Historical Association for many years. (From Wikipedia)

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  • [Info] Bassett, John Spencer, 1867-1928, contrib.: The American Nation: A History (28 volumes; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904-1918), ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart, also contrib. by Edward Potts Cheyney, Livingston Farrand, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Charles McLean Andrews, Evarts Boutell Greene, Reuben Gold Thwaites, George Elliott Howard, Claude Halstead Van Tyne, Andrew C. McLaughlin, Edward Channing, Kendric Charles Babcock, Frederick Jackson Turner, William MacDonald, George Pierce Garrison, Theodore Clarke Smith, French Ensor Chadwick, James K. Hosmer, William Archibald Dunning, Edwin Erle Sparks, Davis Rich Dewey, John Holladay Latané, Frederic Austin Ogg, and David Maydole Matteson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • [Info] Bassett, John Spencer, 1867-1928: The Regulators of North Carolina (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
  • [Info] Bassett, John Spencer, 1867-1928: A Short History of the United States, 1492-1920 (New York: Macmillan, 1921) (multiple formats at archive.org)
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