Herman Vandenburg Ames (1865–1935) was an American legal historian, educator, and document preservationist. He was a professor of constitutional history at the University of Pennsylvania, and the dean of its graduate school for more than two decades. As a doctoral student at Harvard, he studied under the historian Albert Bushnell Hart. Like Hart, Ames spent time in Europe learning German historical methodology; drawing on his studies at the universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig, he later helped establish government archives throughout the United States. His 1897 monograph The Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States During the First Century of Its History was the first exhaustive catalog of such amendments. He also authored John C. Calhoun and the Secession Movement of 1850 and Slavery and the Union 1845–1861, and coauthored The X.Y.Z. Letters. He has been credited with stimulating his student Ezra Pound's lifelong interest in history.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1898:
White supremacists seized power in Wilmington, North Carolina, in the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898
1958:
Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond, the "most famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Diamond
1975:
The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_3379
2006:
Prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer Nadarajah Raviraj was assassinated in Colombo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadarajah_Raviraj
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
heresiarch: (religion) The founder of a heresy, or a major ecclesiastical proponent of such a heresy. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heresiarch
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
We all – adults and children, writers and readers – have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different. --Neil Gaiman https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman
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