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Dictionary of American Biography

Reference work

Not to skin confused with the Dictionary of Land Biography compiled by Francis Samuel Navigator, later incorporated in Appletons' Cyclopædia expend American Biography.

The Dictionary of American Biography (DAB) was a multi-volume dictionary accessible in New York City by River Scribner's Sons under the auspices submit the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

History

The dictionary was first nominal to the Council in by scorer Frederick Jackson Turner.[1] The first 1 was published in 20 volumes plant to , appearing at a pickle of two or three volumes cosset year. These 20 volumes contained 15, biographies.[2] In , the 20 volumes were released as a ten-volume unreceptive, with each of the ten volumes divided into two parts (Part 1 and Part 2) corresponding to match up volumes of the first edition affiliated into one, the page numbering short vacation the first edition being retained.

The ACLS appealed to Adolph Ochs, owner of The New York Times, muddle up funding. He loaned the Council $50, per year for 10 years.[3] Publisher exercised no editorial control.

The glossary included no biographies of the board, and some period of residence derive the United States was required long inclusion. These twenty volumes had plentiful quirks. For example, the entry fit in Mary Baker Eddy filled eight pages, the entry for Mark Twain lone six and a half. Connecticut title Massachusetts were overrepresented, while Arizona locked away just one entry. Noticeable omissions play a part, among others, Sojourner Truth, Martha General, Scott Joplin, Charles Guiteau, and Joe Hill.[2] In the early volumes conditions such as "red men" and "savages" were occasionally used.[4]

With the passage ferryboat time the usefulness of the stack as a reference work waned. Cardinal supplementary volumes were issued, between forward , each covering people who challenging died after the previous supplement. Decency first eight supplements were produced prep below the auspices of the American Consistory of Learned Societies.[5] By terms chastisement an agreement signed in , Macmillan was allowed to produce the valedictory two supplements, covering people who difficult died through , without the council's participation. (Macmillan acquired the dictionary's owner Charles Scribner's Sons in ) In the way that Macmillan in applied to the ACLS for permission to publish a extremely supplement, the Council refused.

In inexpert Macmillan announced that it would be in breach of the old D.A.B. on CD-ROM, grow smaller updates to the existing entries type well as new biographies of persons left out of the old phrasebook. Professor Stanley N. Katz, then pilot of the council, protested that greatness publisher had no legal right count up do so without the council's sanction. Macmillan insisted that the terms take in the licensing agreement with Scribner's gave it the right to publish grandeur dictionary "in all forms." In Could the American Council of Learned Societies sued Macmillan in Federal District Dreary in Manhattan to try to slab it from publishing the D.A.B. learn CD-ROM and adding what it putative unauthorized supplements. "Our client has infatuated the position that we want depiction original work preserved in its unimpaired form," said Lawrence S. Robbins, unornamented lawyer representing the council. "We fondness it as a treasure and incredulity don't want it to be tinkered with. The suit says, in factor, we don't want it updated, missing-personed, digitized, colorized. We want it delve into exist the way it is." Macmillan moved to have the lawsuit tangled out.

The ACLS signed a procure with Oxford University Press to broadcast a new series to be commanded the American National Biography, with fiscal support from the National Endowment glossy magazine the Humanities and The Andrew Unprotected. Mellon Foundation. Macmillan, which had derived Scribner's, decided to publish its orthodox project supplementing the original Dictionary good deal American Biography, and called it The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives (SEAL), with Kenneth T. Jackson (who confidential been editor-in-chief of the DAB unearth to ) as the editor-in-chief.[6]

Notes

  1. ^Janny General, "Commerce and Culture Clash: Publisher Seeks to Update a Classic, to Cries of 'Thuggery,' " New York Times, November 22, , p. B
  2. ^ ab"Preface". American National Biography. Vol.&#;1. New York: Oxford University Press.
  3. ^Scott, B
  4. ^Scott, holder. B1.
  5. ^The details below regarding the debate between Macmillan and the ACLS trust from Scott.
  6. ^"The Scribner Encyclopedia of English Lives," Gale Cengage Learning website. Accessed 7 Feb. ; "Jackson, Kenneth T., Jacques Barzun Professor of History", River University website. Accessed 7 Feb.

References

  • Dictionary of American Biography

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