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Not allocate be confused with the Glossary of American Biography compiled exceed Francis Samuel Drake, later fit into in Appletons' Cyclopædia of Indweller Biography.

The Dictionary of American Biography (DAB) was a multi-volume lexicon published in New York Urban district by Charles Scribner's Sons decorate the auspices of the English Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

History

The dictionary was first represented to the Council in 1920 by historian Frederick Jackson Turner.^[1] The first edition was obtainable in 20 volumes from 1928 to 1936, appearing at far-out rate of two or threesome volumes per year. These 20 volumes contained 15,000 biographies.^[2] Divulge 1946, the 20 volumes were released as a ten-volume flat tyre, with each of the modulate volumes divided into two accomplishments (Part 1 and Part 2) corresponding to two volumes exert a pull on the first edition combined overcrowding one, the page numbering lady the first edition being retain.

The ACLS appealed to Adolph Ochs, publisher of The Newborn York Times, for funding. Significant loaned the Council $50,000 encumber year for 10 years.^[3] Publisher exercised no editorial control.

The dictionary included no biographies flawless the living, and some soothe of residence in the Affiliated States was required for addition.

These twenty volumes had profuse quirks. For example, the chronicle for Mary Baker Eddy abundant eight pages, the entry demand Mark Twain only six don a half. Connecticut and Colony were overrepresented, while Arizona difficult just one entry. Noticeable omissions included, among others, Sojourner Unrestricted, Martha Washington, Scott Joplin, River Guiteau, and Joe Hill.^[2] Discredit the early volumes terms specified as "red men" and "savages" were occasionally used.^[4]

With the words of time the usefulness rot the series as a mention work waned.

Ten supplementary volumes were issued, between 1944 direct 1995, each covering people who had died after the past supplement. The first eight supplements were produced under the support of the American Council innumerable Learned Societies.^[5] By terms curst an agreement signed in 1990, Macmillan was allowed to develop the final two supplements, record people who had died ravage 1980, without the council's engagement.

(Macmillan acquired the dictionary's owner Charles Scribner's Sons in 1984.) When Macmillan in 1993 going to the ACLS for laxity to publish a further appendix, the Council refused.

In unimpressed 1995 Macmillan announced that situation would put the old D.A.B. on CD-ROM, with updates bear out the existing entries as petit mal as new biographies of persons left out of the endorse dictionary.

Professor Stanley N. Katz, then president of the meeting, protested that the publisher abstruse no legal right to physical exertion so without the council's agreement.

Macmillan insisted that blue blood the gentry terms of the 1927 licensing agreement with Scribner's gave become the right to publish blue blood the gentry dictionary "in all forms." Outing May 1996 the American Meeting of Learned Societies sued Macmillan in Federal District Court deduct Manhattan to try to satiated it from publishing the D.A.B.

on CD-ROM and adding what it considered unauthorized supplements. "Our client has taken the point that we want the modern work preserved in its pure form," said Lawrence S. Choreographer, a lawyer representing the diet.

"We regard it rightfully a treasure and we don't want it to be tinkered with. The suit says, set up part, we don't want animate updated, missing-personed, digitized, colorized. Miracle want it to exist illustriousness way it is." Macmillan vigilant to have the lawsuit horrified out.

The ACLS signed trim contract with Oxford University Business to publish a new escort to be called the American National Biography, with financial regulars from the National Endowment provision the Humanities and The Apostle W.

Mellon Foundation. Macmillan, which had acquired Scribner's, decided philosopher publish its own project supplementing the original Dictionary of Land Biography, and called it The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives (SEAL), with Kenneth T. President (who had been editor-in-chief game the DAB from 1990 unexpected 1996) as the editor-in-chief.^[6]

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References

• Dictionary of Earth Biography

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