George Bancroft (1800-1891) was an eminent American historian and a diplomat and politician. He also founded the U.S. Naval Academy.George Bancroft was born in Worcester, Mass., on Oct. 3, 1800. His f...
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George Bancroft (3 October 1800-17 January 1891) was an important factor in the flowering of New England Romanticism in the early nineteenth century. Together with Francis Parkman, William Hickling Pr...
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George Bancroft was the preeminent American historian of his day and the first to undertake (but not to complete) a comprehensive history of the United States, a task complicated and prolonged by an a...
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George Bancroft's chief reputation rests in his association with William H. Prescott, John Lothrop Motley, and Francis Parkman as members of the "Literary" or "Middle Historians," known for the grace ...
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George Bancroft is best remembered as a popular nineteenth-century historian. He led a complex life and played an important role in Transcendentalist reform movements. Although never formally part of ...
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George Bancroft
George Bancroft