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- A significant American historian, Professor at Johns Hopkins, Brown, and the University of Chicago, was director (1905-28) of the department of historical research of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., and from 1928 to his death he was chief of the division of manuscripts in the Library of Congress and is often credited as the 'father' of what is now the United States National Archives. As chairman of the committee of management of the Dictionary of American Biography he was largely responsible for the inauguration and completion of that monumental work. In these and other undertakings, Jameson exercised much influence in American historical scholarship. He wrote The History of Historical Writing in America (1891) and The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement (1926) and edited Correspondence of John C. Calhoun (1900, repr. 1969). Further here.
Famous author. Among his publishedbooks are:
- "Willem Usselinx, Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies", 1887
- "Dictionary of United States History", 1894
- "Narratives of New Netherland, 1609 - 1664", 1909
- "The Control of the Higher Education in the United States", 1910
- "The Arrival of the Pilgrims", 1920
- "Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period", 1923
- "The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement", 1926
- There is a residence hall (dorm) "Jameson House" named after him at Brown University, in Providence, RI.
- http://earlyamericanists.com/2014/11/07/j-franklin-jameson-superstar/
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1859 - 1937 (78 years)
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