Edward Channing

Edward Channing (June 15, 1856 in Dorchester, Mass. - January 7, 1931 in Cambridge [check], Mass.) was an American historian and an author of a monumental History of the United States in six volumes.

Bibliography

Chronological list of all the monographic works by Edward Channing

• Town and County Government in the English Colonies of North America. JHUSHPS, 2nd ser., no. 10. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1884.
• The Narragansett Planters: A Study of Causes. JHUSHPS, 4th ser., no. 3. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1886.
• A Few Remarks on the Origin of New England Towns. Cambridge: John Wilson, 1892 (First, with the same title, in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 3 (1891-92):242-63].
• With Charles Francis Adams, Mellen Chamberlain, Abner C. Goodell, Jr. The Genesis of the Massachusetts Town and the Development of Town-Meeting Government. Cambridge, Mass.: John Wilson, 1892. full text edition
• Topics and References in American History, 1492-1783: Printed for the Use of Students in History. Cambridge, Mass.: Edward W. Wheeler, Printer, 1893.
• With Thomas Wentworth Higginson. English History for American Readers. New York: Longmans, Green, 1893. New ed., revised and enlarged English History for Americans. New York: Longmans, Green, 1914.
• The United States of America, 1765-1865. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1896. 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1930.
• With Albert Bushnell Hart. Guide to the Study of American History. Boston: Ginn, 1896. Revised and augmented ed. with Frederick Jackson Turner. Guide to the Study and Reading of American History. Boston: Ginn, 1912. full text 1912 ediition, 650pp
• A Student's History of the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1898. 5th, revised ed. New York: Macmillan, 1924. full text 1913 edition
• A Short History of the United States for School Use. New York: Macmillan, 1900. Revised in consultation with Susan J. Ginn. New and enlarged ed. New York: Macmillan, 1909.
• First Lessons in United States History. New York: Macmillan, 1903.
• A History of the United States. Vol. 1: The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000-1660. New York: Macmillan, 1905.
• The Jeffersonian System, 1801-1811. The American Nation: A History. Ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart. Vol. 12. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906; full text
• A History of the United States. Vol. 2: A Century of Colonial History, 1660-1760. New York: Macmillan, 1908.
• With Marion Florence Lansing. The Story of the Great Lakes. New York: Macmillan, 1909.
• In consultation with Susan Ginn. Elements of United States History. New York: Macmillan, 1910.
• A History of the United States. Vol. 3: The American Revolution, 1761-1789. New York: Macmillan, 1912.
• A History of the United States. Vol. 4: Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815. New York: Macmillan, 1917.
• A History of the United States. Vol. 5: The Period of Transition, 1815-1848. New York: Macmillan, 1921.
• A History of the United States. Vol. 6: The War for Southern Independence. New York: Macmillan, 1925.
• A History of the United States: Supplementary volume. General index, compiled by Eva G. Moore. New York: Macmillan, 1932.

Secondary sources

• Cappon, Lester J. "Channing and Hart: Partners in Bibliography." New England Quarterly 29, no. 3 (Sept. 1956):318-40.
• DeNovo, John A. "Edward Channing's 'Great Work' Twenty Years After." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 39, no. 2 (Sept. 1952):257-74.
• Fahrney, Ralph Ray. "Edward Channing." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 18, no. 1 (June 1931):53-59.
• Fahrney, Ralph Ray. "Edward Channing." In The Marcus W. Jernegan Essays in American Historiography, 294-312. Ed. by William T. Hutchinson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937. (Slightly revised version of Fahrney's earlier article in the Mississippi Valley Historical Review.)
• Fish, Carl Rusell. "Edward Channing: America's Historian." Current History 33 (March 1931):862-67.
• Joyce, Davis Darrell. Edward Channing and the Great Work. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974. (The most comprehensive and, so far, best work on Channing.)
• Lowell, A. Lawrence. "Edward Channing." Academy Publication of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 77 (1932):73-83.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot. "Edward Channing: A Memoir." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 64 (Oct. 1930-June 1932):250-84. (A slightly shortened version in Samuel Eliot Morison, By Land and By Sea: Essays and Addresses [New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953], 299-327.]
• Terry, George D. "Edward Channing." In Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 17: Twentieth-Century American Historians, 103-09. Ed. by Clyde N. Wilson. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Company, 1983.
• Weaver, Glenn. "Edward Channing: A Literary Biography." Social Studies 54 (March, 1963):83-95.