John Lord (historian)
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| Born | September 10, 1810 |
| Died | December 15, 1894 (aged 84) |
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John Lord (September 10, 1810 – December 15, 1894) was an American historian and lecturer.
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Biography
Born September 10, 1810 in
Congregational Church at New Marlborough, Massachusetts, and then to one at Stockbridge, Massachusetts
.
In 1840 he gave up his pastoral duties to become a public lecturer and spend time on literary activities. In 1843-46, he was in England giving lectures on the
University of the City of New York
. From 1866 to 1876, he was lecturer on history at Dartmouth College.
Lord died December 15, 1894, in Stamford, Connecticut.
Works
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- Modern History for Schools (1850)
- The Old Roman World (1867)
- Ancient States and Empires (1869)
- Life of Emma Willard (1873)
- Points of History (1881)
- Beacon Lights of History (14 volumes; 1883–96) This covers the old pagan civilisations through to modern Europe and America in his time.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
External links
- Works by John Lord at Project Gutenberg
- Works by John Lord at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by or about John Lord at Internet Archive
