Herbert Baxter Adams
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Herbert Baxter Adams was an American educator and historian who brought German rigor to the study of history and social science in America. He was a professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Adams, 1870–1880
Thomas Dixon Jr.
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Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. was an American white supremacist and polymath: a Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, writer, and filmmaker. Dixon wrote two best-selling novels, The Leopard's S
Herbert Baxter Adams
…his famous seminar in history, where a large proportion of the next generation of American historians trained. Among his students were Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Dixon, Jr., John Dewey, and Charles McLean Andrews. In 1882 Adams founded the "Johns Hopkins Studies in Historical and Political Science," the first such series…
Portrait of Thomas Dixon, Jr
Frontispiece to the first edition of Dixon's The Clansman.
Dixon and his first wife Harriet