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James Truslow Adams papers, 1918-1949

Access and use

Restrictions:

The folllowing boxes are shelved off-site: Boxes 5-24. You will need to request those boxes from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at least three business days before using in our reading room.

The unpublished manuscript of "An American Family" is closed to all use except by J.T. Adams' family; others must have the written permission of his heirs.

Terms of access:

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred citation:: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); James Truslow Adams Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Location of this collection:

RBML Home Page

6th Floor East Butler Library

535 West 114th Street

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James Truslow Adams

Born:18-Oct-1878
Birthplace:Brooklyn, NY
Died:18-May-1949
Location of death: Southport, CT
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary:The Epic of America

Coined the term, "The American Dream" (1931).

Pulitzer Prize for History 1922 for The Founding of New England

Author of books:
The Founding of New England (, history)
Revolutionary New England, 1691�1776 (, history)
New England in the Republic, 1776�1850 (, history)
Provincial Society, 1690�1763 (, history)
The Adams Family (, biography)
The Epic of America (, history)
Henry Adams (, biography)
America's Tragedy (, history)

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James Truslow Adams

James Truslow Adams (October 18, 1878 in Brooklyn, N.Y. - May 18, 1949 in Southport, Conn.) was an American historian. He was not related to the famous Adams family (though he wrote a book about the family in 1930). He was not an academic, but a freelance author, and his three volume history of New England is well regarded by scholars.

Life and work

James Truslow Adams started an international living career, so to speak, shortly after his birth, when his parents decided to live for some time in Paris, France. Adams visited different schools in New York and took his bachelor's degree from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1898, and a M.A. degree from Yale University in 1900, though he was diasappointed from Yale University. Probably around 1898/99, he entered the Wall Street company his father was working for. He changed to a railway company, the Central of Georgia, thereby earning more money and learning much about investment business. In 1900 he undertook a grand tour through Europe, spending three weeks in London and visiting the world's fair in