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Better in Darkness: A Biography of Henry Adams, His Second Life, 1862-1891.(Brief Article) The Historian (3/22/1996)
...Americans represented in intellectual history, Henry Adams stands head and shoulders above the rest. Any...nineteenth century is incomplete without considering Henry Adams, and now any study of Henry Adams will be incomplete ...

The education of Henry Adams; a centennial version.(Brief Article)(Book Review) Reference & Research Book News (8/1/2007)
9780934909914 The education of Henry Adams; a centennial version. Adams, Henry. Ed. by Edward Chalfant and Conrad Edick...published privately in 1907, The Education of Henry Adams contained hundreds of printer's errors and...

Quote of the month.(Front and Center)(Henry Brooks Adams on teachers)(Brief Article) Techniques (9/1/2003)
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." --Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918), teacher, historian and editor

The Lives of The Lafayette Square Literati;Author Patricia O'Toole's Intricate Look at Henry Adams and His Friends The Washington Post (6/10/1990)
...Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880-1918...1607 H St. on Lafayette Square. Henry Adams, also a historian, and Marian...book, was found by a niece in Henry Adams's desk, 33 years after Clover...

The real education of Henry Adams. (Reconsiderations). The Public Interest (3/22/2002)
...Russell Kirk wrote, "to dislike Henry Adams is easy." What was true then...autobiographical The Education of Henry Adams as a brilliant work of literature...remembered as a literary figure, Henry Adams' principal ambition ...

How Black style became beautiful; fashion historian Michael Henry Adams offers a few lesser-known details highlighting more than 100 years of Black excellence in fashion.(BLACKS IN FASHION) Ebony (9/1/2007)
1863 So gifted is Virginia-born Elizabeth Keckley with a needle and as designer that less than 20 years after buying her freedom from slavery and starting a thriving dressmaking business in Washington, she is chosen as first lady Mary Lincoln's seamstress. 1948 Zelda Wynn Valdes starts the first

Henry Adams, Sleuth The Washington Post (9/17/1995)
...of a few weeks in the life of Henry Adams, the historian and memoirist...would confront in The Education of Henry Adams. Readers who share my uneasiness...this is warranted, chiefly when "Henry Adams" does things that one ...

DECONSTRUCTING HENRY (ADAMS) The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (11/13/2005)
...two decades of the 19th century, Henry Adams, according to Garry Wills...have anointed "The Education of Henry Adams," published posthumously in 1918...institutionally, to fulfill its destiny. "Henry Adams and the Making of ...

Henry Adams and the Making of America.(Book review) Parameters (9/22/2007)
Henry Adams and the Making of America. By Garry Wills...America, he takes on a written text, Henry Adams's History of the United States of America...characteristic of the later book Education of Henry Adams rather than the ...

The Political Education of Henry Adams. (book reviews) Civil War History (6/1/1997)
...define a historical period than Henry Adams. His acidic descriptions of the...GildedAge politics soon finds that Henry Adams played at best a peripheral role...Simpson's lucid pages is that Henry Adams never enjoyed ...

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