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NAR's first editor, William Tudor, and other founders had been members of Boston's Anthology Club, and launched North American Review to foster a genuine American culture. . In its first few years NAR published poetry, fiction, and miscellaneous essays on a bimonthly schedule, but in 1820, it became a quarterly, with more focused contents intent on improving society and on elevating cultu
Peter Iverson – 20th century U.S. West/Native American history (emphasis in Navajo history) Paul Johnson (born 1928) – author of A History of the American People and a biographer of George Washington; Winthrop Jordan (1931–2007) – African-American history; Willard L. King (1893–1981) – biography and law
First issue of the North American Review with signature of its editor William Tudor. William Tudor (January 28, 1779 – March 9, 1830) was an American businessman, journalist, and author from Boston who was co-founder of the North American Review and the Boston Athenæum. It was Tudor who christened Boston "The Athens of America" in an 1819 ...
By the end of 2008, the book received the Pulitzer Prize for History, the New-York Historical Society Book Prize, the silver medal for Nonfiction at the California Book Awards, and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic's Best Book Award. [34]
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [4]
Frederic Tudor (September 4, 1783 – February 6, 1864) was an American businessman and merchant. Known as Boston 's " Ice King ", he was the founder of the Tudor Ice Company and a pioneer of the international ice trade in the early 19th century.
The Tudor myth is a particular tradition in English history, historiography, and literature that presents the period of the 15th century, including the Wars of the Roses, as a dark age of anarchy and bloodshed, and sees the Tudor period of the 16th century as a golden age of peace, law, order, and prosperity.
Notable attempts to compile a list of best-selling books in the United States prior to 1895 include The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste (1950) by James D. Hart. 1895 [ edit ]