Herbert B Adams Author:Johns Hopkins University Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HERBERT B. ADAMS BY DANIEL C. OILMAN l During the last few years a great deal of attention has been bestowed on American history. The enthusiasm awakened b... more »y the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 was perhaps the starting-point. At any rate, since that time our countrymen have seemed aware that their own history is well worth study in its local and its national aspects. The four volumes of Mr. Rhodes present the latest, and in some aspects, the best fruitage of recent investigation, though the period which it treats of is limited by the Civil War, its antecedents and its consequences—a period rich in lessons, but so fresh in the memories of living men that Mr. Rhodes's judicial mastery of the subject is a marvel. The earlier history by Henry Adams, McMaster's admirable work, Woodrow Wilson's current articles, Alexander Johnston's manual, and especially the writings of Roosevelt, Charles Francis Adams, James Schouler, John C. Ropes, John Fiske, Lodge, Eggleston, and several other Historians, not to mention biographers, belong to this period. Among those who have given an impulse to such studies Professor Herbert B. Adams is one of the most honorable and useful. He entered upon his academic service in the centennial year, when the educated young men of this country were alive to the unprecedented advantages then opened to them in the free life of a new university established in Baltimore. He came to Johns Hopkins fresh from the lecture-room at Heidelberg, of Bluntschli, by whom he had been taught to appreciate the value of insti- 1 Written by the request of the editors of the Outlook, and published October 12, 1901. tutions, the Church, the State, the family, the school, and to the end of his life institutional history was his favorite theme. He was at his best in the moder...« less