James Ford Rhodes (1848-1927), American historian, wrote an influential multivolume political narrative of the Civil War and Reconstruction.James Ford Rhodes was born on May 1, 1848, in Ohio City, Ohi...
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From the mid-1890s until World War I, James Ford Rhodes dominated Americans' understanding of their recent past to a degree unmatched by any historian before or since. Unlike most historians, whose wo...
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