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| Born | (1860-06-24)June 24, 1860 Strykersville, New York, US |
| Died | February 24, 1908(1908-02-24) (aged 47) New Haven, Connecticut, US |
| Burial place | Grove Street Cemetery |
| Education | Yale University |
| Occupation | Historian |
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| Children | 3 |
Edward Gaylord Bourne, Ph. D. (June 24, 1860 – February 24, 1908) was an American historian.
Edward Gaylord Bourne was born inStrykersville, New York on June 24, 1860.[1] He was educated atYale, graduating in 1883 with high honors. He taught atAdelbert College, Cleveland from 1888 to 1895 when he became a professor of history at Yale. Bourne is considered one of the founders ofLatin American history as a field in the United States. The publication of hisSpain in America (1904), was "a major landmark in the development of the field," which "gave a lucid synthesis of the institutional life of Spanish America, ranging also through economic, social, and cultural developments...."[2] In an assessment of Bourne's work,Charles Gibson andBenjamin Keen state that "He may justifiably be termed the first scientific historian of the United States to view the Spanish colonial process dispassionately and thereby to escape the conventional Anglo-Protestant attitudes of outraged or tolerant disparagement."[3]
He married Annie Thomson Nettleton on July 17, 1895, and they had three children.[1]
Bourne died inNew Haven, Connecticut on February 24, 1908, and was buried atGrove Street Cemetery.[4][5]
Bourne published many critical papers on historical subjects. One of them, "The Legend of Marcus Whitman,"[6] is considered to have settled theWhitman question, determining that there was no basis in fact for the widespread notion that Whitman "saved" Oregon to the United States.[7][8][9] His four-volumeSpain in America is credited with "an unequivocally scholarly presentation, in laying a positive assessment of early Hispanic colonization before the [U.S.] American public."[10] The work was reissued in 1962, indicating its enduring importance to the field.[11]
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Bourne was elected a member of theAmerican Antiquarian Society in 1893.[12]
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