Norman Fiering
Norman Fiering (born 1935 in New York City) is an American historian, and Director and Librarian, Emeritus, of the John Carter Brown Library.
Norman Fiering | |
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| Born | 1935 (age 86–87) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College, 1956 B.A. Columbia University, 1969 Ph.D. |
| Occupation | American historian |
| Spouse(s) | Renée Fiering |
| Children | 3 children |
| Website | http://www.normanfiering.net/ |
Life
He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1956, where he was a student of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in 1969.
He taught at Stanford University between 1964 and 1969, and was a post-doctoral fellow for three years at the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1969-1972. In 1972 he was appointed Editor of Publications at the Institute. From 1983 to 2006, he was Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
Awards
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Fellowship
- 1975-76 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- 1978-79 National Humanities Center Fellowship in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
- 1983 Merle Curti Award
Bibliography
Books
- Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition, University of North Carolina Press. 1981
- Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context, University of North Carolina Press. 1981
- A Guide to Book Publication for Historians (Washington, D. C.: American Historical Assn.), 1979, pamphlet, 40 pp.
Articles
- "President Samuel Johnson and the Circle of Knowledge," William and Mary Quarterly, XXVIII (April 1971), 199-236.
- "Solomon Stoddard's Library at Harvard in 1664," Harvard Library Bulletin (July 1972), 255-269.
- "Will and Intellect in the New England Mind," William and Mary Quarterly, XXIX (Oct. 1972), 515-558. (Best article award, William and Mary Quarterly, 1972).
- "A Reply to George Steiner," Visible Language, VI (Summer, 1972), 218-222.
- "Irresistible Compassion: An Aspect of Eighteenth-Century Sympathy and Humanitarianism," Journal of the History of Ideas, XXXVII (April 1976), 195-218.
- "Editing the Historian's First Book," The Maryland Historian, VII (Spring 1976), 61-69.
- "The Transatlantic Republic of Letters: A Note on the Circulation of Learned Periodicals to Early Eighteenth-Century America," William and Mary Quarterly, XXXIII (Oct. 1976), 642-660.
- "Early American Philosophy vs. Philosophy in Early America," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, XIII (Summer 1977), 216-237.
- "Benjamin Franklin and the Way to Virtue," American Quarterly, XXX (July 1978), 199-223.
- "The First American Enlightenment: Tillotson, Leverett, and Philosophical Anglicanism," New England Quarterly, LIV (Sept. 1981), 307-334. (Winner of the Walter Muir Whitehill Prize, Col. Society of Massachusetts).
- "Comment on Thomas Tanselle's, 'The Bibliography and Textual Study of American Books," American Antiquarian Society Proceedings, XCV, Part I (Worcester, Mass.), 1985, 152-160.
- "The Rationalist Foundations of Jonathan Edwards's Metaphysics," in Nathan O. Hatch and Harry S. Stout, Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience (Oxford U. Press, 1989) ISBN 978-0-19-506077-5
- "Philosophy" in the three-volume Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, ed. Jacob E. Cooke (New York, 1993).
Edited
- Edward G. Gray; Norman Fiering, eds. (2000). The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-210-0.
- Paolo Bernardini; Norman Fiering, eds. (2001). The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450 to 1800. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-430-2.
- David Patrick Geggus; Norman Fiering, eds. (2009). The World of the Haitian Revolution. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35232-3.
References
External links
- "Author's website"
- "The New England Mind Revisited", Virginia Quarterly Review, Philip F. Gura, Summer 1982
- "Interview with Norman Fiering", Daniel J. Slive, RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, VI, no. 2 (Fall 2005), pp. 124-140.
- "'Tremendous Satisfaction from Helping People to Pursue Their Research,' An Interview with Norman Fiering," Jaap Jacobs, Itinerario, XXVIII, no. 2 (2004), pp. 7–13
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