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'''William Romeyn Everdell''' is an American teacher and [[author]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/24/education/new-priority-technological-literacy.html|title=New Priority: Technological Literacy|last=Fiske|first=Edward B.|date=1983-04-24|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
'''William Romeyn Everdell''' is an American teacher and [[author]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/24/education/new-priority-technological-literacy.html|title=New Priority: Technological Literacy|last=Fiske|first=Edward B.|date=1983-04-24|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He is Dean of Humanities, Emeritus, at [[Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn)|Saint Ann's School.]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Pace |first=Eric |date=1983-05-25 |title=FROM A PIZZA BY LAND TO FILLET OF BEEF BY SEA |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/25/nyregion/from-a-pizza-by-land-to-fillet-of-beef-by-sea.html |access-date=2024-05-24 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=2012 |title=The Authors |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/356/article/820288 |journal=Bach: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=94–95 |issn=2767-4843}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gossin |first=Pamela |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=npHDEAAAQBAJ&dq=everdell+saint+ann%27s+school&pg=PA572 |title=Encyclopedia of Literature and Science |date=2002-08-30 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-0-313-01106-1 |language=en}}</ref> |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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Born in 1941, he graduated from [[St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)|St. Paul's School]] and from [[Princeton University]].<ref name=uchicago/> A Woodrow Wilson Scholar and Fulbright Scholar, he holds a master's degree in history from [[Harvard University]] and a Ph.D from [[New York University]].<ref name=w/> |
Born in 1941, he graduated from [[St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)|St. Paul's School]] and from [[Princeton University]].<ref name=uchicago/> A Woodrow Wilson Scholar and Fulbright Scholar, he holds a master's degree in history from [[Harvard University]] and a Ph.D from [[New York University]].<ref name=w/> Everdell's dissertation, later published in book form, is notable for being the first work to place [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] within the Counter-Enlightenment, according to [[Graeme Garrard]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Garrard |first=Graeme |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RM7bmjNINt0C&dq=william+everdell+rousseau&pg=PA124 |title=Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes |date=2012-02-01 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=978-0-7914-8743-3 |language=en}}</ref> |
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In 1970, he began teaching at [[Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn)|Saint Ann's School]] in Brooklyn, where he taught world history until retiring in 2016.<ref>[[Marcus Cunliffe]] [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1984/01/22/the-best-form-of-government-the-end-of-kings-a-history-of-republics-and-republicans-by-william-r-everdell-free-press-370-pp-1995/323b80f3-3877-4d8d-b113-b05508e13657/ "The Best Form of Government THE END OF KINGS: A History of Republics and Republicans. By William R. Everdell. Free Press. 370 pp. $19.95."], ''[[Washington Post]]'', January 22, 1884.</ref><ref name=w>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phhhHT64kIMC&q=william+everdell+who's+who&pg=PA166|title=International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004|last=Publications|first=Europa|date=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9781857431797|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RvroCI_z7_8C&q=william+r.+everdell+saint+ann%27s+school&pg=PR7|title=Against Rousseau: On the State of Nature and On the Sovereignty of the People|last=Maistre|first=Joseph de|date=June 1, 1996|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=9780773566040|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/17/nyregion/classes-on-nuclear-war-move-into-curriculums.html|title=Classes on Nuclear War Move into Curriculums|last=Maeroff|first=Gene I.|date=1983-11-17|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
In 1970, he began teaching at [[Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn)|Saint Ann's School]] in Brooklyn, where he taught world history until retiring in 2016.<ref>[[Marcus Cunliffe]] [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1984/01/22/the-best-form-of-government-the-end-of-kings-a-history-of-republics-and-republicans-by-william-r-everdell-free-press-370-pp-1995/323b80f3-3877-4d8d-b113-b05508e13657/ "The Best Form of Government THE END OF KINGS: A History of Republics and Republicans. By William R. Everdell. Free Press. 370 pp. $19.95."], ''[[Washington Post]]'', January 22, 1884.</ref><ref name=w>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phhhHT64kIMC&q=william+everdell+who's+who&pg=PA166|title=International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004|last=Publications|first=Europa|date=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9781857431797|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RvroCI_z7_8C&q=william+r.+everdell+saint+ann%27s+school&pg=PR7|title=Against Rousseau: On the State of Nature and On the Sovereignty of the People|last=Maistre|first=Joseph de|date=June 1, 1996|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=9780773566040|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/17/nyregion/classes-on-nuclear-war-move-into-curriculums.html|title=Classes on Nuclear War Move into Curriculums|last=Maeroff|first=Gene I.|date=1983-11-17|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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He has been a regular contributor to the ''[[New York Times]]'' Book Review,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/search/?action=click&contentCollection®ion=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage|title=The New York Times - Search|website=www.NYTimes.com|access-date=April 14, 2019}}</ref> and is the author of a number of books and articles on [[intellectual history]] and the [[history of ideas]]. One book, ''The End of Kings'' (1983, 2000) recaptures the historical definition of "republic" as a state not ruled by one person.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aha.confex.com/aha/2009/webprogram/Session2453.html|title=123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Organization of History Teachers Book Talk|website=aha.confex.com|access-date=2018-10-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/13/books/about-books-and-authors.html|title=About Books and Authors|last=McDowell|first=Edwin|date=November 13, 1983|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Another, ''[[The First Moderns]]'' (1997) redefines "Modernism" as the abandonment of the continuous in favor of the discrete in the arts and sciences that began in the West in 1872–1913. In 2021 Springer published his ''The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment'', which uses biographical profiles to argue that Wahhabi Islam, Hasidic Judaism, and "Evangelical" Protestant Christianity, which arose nearly simultaneously in the middle of the 18th century CE, are best understood as aspects of what [[Isaiah Berlin]] called the [[Counter-Enlightenment]]. |
He has been a regular contributor to the ''[[New York Times]]'' Book Review,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/search/?action=click&contentCollection®ion=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage|title=The New York Times - Search|website=www.NYTimes.com|access-date=April 14, 2019}}</ref> and is the author of a number of books and articles on [[intellectual history]] and the [[history of ideas]]. One book, ''The End of Kings'' (1983, 2000) recaptures the historical definition of "republic" as a state not ruled by one person.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aha.confex.com/aha/2009/webprogram/Session2453.html|title=123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Organization of History Teachers Book Talk|website=aha.confex.com|access-date=2018-10-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/13/books/about-books-and-authors.html|title=About Books and Authors|last=McDowell|first=Edwin|date=November 13, 1983|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Another, ''[[The First Moderns]]'' (1997) redefines "Modernism" as the abandonment of the continuous in favor of the discrete in the arts and sciences that began in the West in 1872–1913.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Morrone |first=Francis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cIOZO8_HNGAC&dq=everdell+saint+ann%27s+school&pg=PA82 |title=An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn |date=2001 |publisher=Gibbs Smith |isbn=978-1-4236-1911-6 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sockett |first=Hugh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gQtpDwAAQBAJ&dq=everdell+saint+ann%27s+school&pg=PT60 |title=Moral Thought in Educational Practice |date=2018-08-14 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-89296-7 |language=en}}</ref> The ''New York Times'' included ''The First Moderns'' on its list of "notable books of the year" for 1997.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 7, 1997 |title="Notable Books of the Year 1997" |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/07/books/notable-books-of-the-year-1997.html |access-date=October 17, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> In 2021 Springer published his ''The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment'', which uses biographical profiles to argue that Wahhabi Islam, Hasidic Judaism, and "Evangelical" Protestant Christianity, which arose nearly simultaneously in the middle of the 18th century CE, are best understood as aspects of what [[Isaiah Berlin]] called the [[Counter-Enlightenment]]. |
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He has also written on the teaching of history, edited the historical section of the website of the New England Society in the City of Brooklyn<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newenglandsociety.org/timeline/|title=Brooklyn Timeline }}</ref> and served on the Test Development Committee for the first Advanced Placement World History Exams.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/18/nyregion/on-education-moving-quickly-through-history.html|title=ON EDUCATION; Moving Quickly Through History|last=Winerip|first=Michael|date=June 18, 2003|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> A member of the [[American Historical Association]], he has also served as the president of the affiliated Organization of History Teachers, and of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.<ref name=uchicago>{{cite web |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/E/enwiki/w/au5424605.html |title=About the Author: William R. Everdell |website=press.uchicago.edu |access-date=2021-06-12}}</ref> |
He has also written on the teaching of history, edited the historical section of the website of the New England Society in the City of Brooklyn<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newenglandsociety.org/timeline/|title=Brooklyn Timeline }}</ref> and served on the Test Development Committee for the first Advanced Placement World History Exams.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/18/nyregion/on-education-moving-quickly-through-history.html|title=ON EDUCATION; Moving Quickly Through History|last=Winerip|first=Michael|date=June 18, 2003|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> A member of the [[American Historical Association]], he has also served as the president of the affiliated Organization of History Teachers, and of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.<ref name=uchicago>{{cite web |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/E/enwiki/w/au5424605.html |title=About the Author: William R. Everdell |website=press.uchicago.edu |access-date=2021-06-12}}</ref> |
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His wife, Barbara, was a longtime administrator at Saint Ann's, and together they have two sons, Josh and Chris.<ref name=":0" /> |
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* ''The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans'', The Free Press, 1983 (2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, 2000) |
* ''The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans'', The Free Press, 1983 (2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, 2000) |
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* ''Christian Apologetics in France, 1730-1790: The Roots of Romantic Religion'', Edwin Mellen Press, 1987. |
* ''Christian Apologetics in France, 1730-1790: The Roots of Romantic Religion'', Edwin Mellen Press, 1987. |
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* "The Problem of Continuity and the Origins of Modernism: 1870-1913 |
* "The Problem of Continuity and the Origins of Modernism: 1870-1913", ''History of European Ideas'', Pergamon Press, 1988. |
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* "From State to Freestate: The Meaning of the Word Republic from Jean Bodin to John Adams" (7th ISECS, Budapest, 7/31/87) in ''Valley Forge Journal'', June, 1991 http://dhm.pdp6.org/archives/wre-republics.html and in ''Humanities Commons'' [https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:51475/] |
* "From State to Freestate: The Meaning of the Word Republic from Jean Bodin to John Adams" (7th ISECS, Budapest, 7/31/87) in ''Valley Forge Journal'', June, 1991 http://dhm.pdp6.org/archives/wre-republics.html and in ''Humanities Commons'' [https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:51475/] |
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* "Complots, Côteries, Conspirations: L'origine de la 'thèse Barruel' dans le roman apologétique" (7/6/89) in ''L'Image de la Révolution française: Communications présentées lors du Congrès Mondial...'', vol III, Paris, 1989 |
* "Complots, Côteries, Conspirations: L'origine de la 'thèse Barruel' dans le roman apologétique" (7/6/89) in ''L'Image de la Révolution française: Communications présentées lors du Congrès Mondial...'', vol III, Paris, 1989 |
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* "How Much Is That In Dollars? Teaching World Economic History Starting With What Students Most Want To Know", Organization of History Teachers/American Historical Association, Conference, DC, January, 2004 |
* "How Much Is That In Dollars? Teaching World Economic History Starting With What Students Most Want To Know", Organization of History Teachers/American Historical Association, Conference, DC, January, 2004 |
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* ''The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment: From Ecstasy to Fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the 18th Century'', Springer, 2021. |
* ''The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment: From Ecstasy to Fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the 18th Century'', Springer, 2021. |
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* "Real Persons on Coins: Ominous Precedents and a Paleofeminist Plea |
* "Real Persons on Coins: Ominous Precedents and a Paleofeminist Plea", 2020 in Substack [https://williameverdell.substack.com/p/real-persons-on-coins] & [https://williameverdell.substack.com/p/real-persons-on-coins-280?sd=pf] & [https://williameverdell.substack.com/p/real-persons-on-coins-b50?sd=pf] and in ''Humanities Commons'' [https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:46593/] |
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==References== |
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William Romeyn Everdell is an American teacher and author.[1] He is Dean of Humanities, Emeritus, at Saint Ann's School.[2][3][4]
Biography
[edit]Born in 1941, he graduated from St. Paul's School and from Princeton University.[5] A Woodrow Wilson Scholar and Fulbright Scholar, he holds a master's degree in history from Harvard University and a Ph.D from New York University.[6] Everdell's dissertation, later published in book form, is notable for being the first work to place Jean-Jacques Rousseau within the Counter-Enlightenment, according to Graeme Garrard.[7]
In 1970, he began teaching at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, where he taught world history until retiring in 2016.[8][6][9][10] He has been a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review,[11] and is the author of a number of books and articles on intellectual history and the history of ideas. One book, The End of Kings (1983, 2000) recaptures the historical definition of "republic" as a state not ruled by one person.[12][13] Another, The First Moderns (1997) redefines "Modernism" as the abandonment of the continuous in favor of the discrete in the arts and sciences that began in the West in 1872–1913.[14][15] The New York Times included The First Moderns on its list of "notable books of the year" for 1997.[16] In 2021 Springer published his The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment, which uses biographical profiles to argue that Wahhabi Islam, Hasidic Judaism, and "Evangelical" Protestant Christianity, which arose nearly simultaneously in the middle of the 18th century CE, are best understood as aspects of what Isaiah Berlin called the Counter-Enlightenment.
He has also written on the teaching of history, edited the historical section of the website of the New England Society in the City of Brooklyn[17] and served on the Test Development Committee for the first Advanced Placement World History Exams.[18] A member of the American Historical Association, he has also served as the president of the affiliated Organization of History Teachers, and of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.[5]
His wife, Barbara, was a longtime administrator at Saint Ann's, and together they have two sons, Josh and Chris.[2]
Publications
[edit]- "The Rosières Movement, 1766-1789: A Clerical Precursor of the Revolutionary Cults", French Historical Studies 9:1, 1975
- The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans, The Free Press, 1983 (2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, 2000)
- Christian Apologetics in France, 1730-1790: The Roots of Romantic Religion, Edwin Mellen Press, 1987.
- "The Problem of Continuity and the Origins of Modernism: 1870-1913", History of European Ideas, Pergamon Press, 1988.
- "From State to Freestate: The Meaning of the Word Republic from Jean Bodin to John Adams" (7th ISECS, Budapest, 7/31/87) in Valley Forge Journal, June, 1991 http://dhm.pdp6.org/archives/wre-republics.html and in Humanities Commons [1]
- "Complots, Côteries, Conspirations: L'origine de la 'thèse Barruel' dans le roman apologétique" (7/6/89) in L'Image de la Révolution française: Communications présentées lors du Congrès Mondial..., vol III, Paris, 1989
- "Monologues of the Mad: Paris Cabaret and Modernist Narrative from Twain to Eliot" (ISSEI, Aalborg, Denmark, 8/25/92) in Studies in American Fiction, 20:2(Dec, 1992)
- The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth Century Thought, University of Chicago Press, 1997. (Paperback Edition 1998)
- "Modernism at 100", Prometheus I:1(1998–99)
- Review of Taves, Fits, Trances and Visions in New York Times Book Review, (26 December 1999)
- Review of Banfield, The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism, in Russell: Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, NS v21:1 (Summer 2001), p88
- "How to Use the Theme of Technology in a World History Survey Course", American Historical Association, San Francisco, 5 January 2002, revised, in World History Connected.
- "Enlightenment: A Rhetoric of Suspicion", St. Ann's Review 5:1(Winter/Spring, 2004), p22-33
- "How Much Is That In Dollars? Teaching World Economic History Starting With What Students Most Want To Know", Organization of History Teachers/American Historical Association, Conference, DC, January, 2004
- The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment: From Ecstasy to Fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the 18th Century, Springer, 2021.
- "Real Persons on Coins: Ominous Precedents and a Paleofeminist Plea", 2020 in Substack [2] & [3] & [4] and in Humanities Commons [5]
References
[edit]- ^ Fiske, Edward B. (April 24, 1983). "New Priority: Technological Literacy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
- ^ a b Pace, Eric (May 25, 1983). "FROM A PIZZA BY LAND TO FILLET OF BEEF BY SEA". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 24, 2024.
- ^ "The Authors". Bach: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute. 43 (1): 94–95. 2012. ISSN 2767-4843.
- ^ Gossin, Pamela (August 30, 2002). Encyclopedia of Literature and Science. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-0-313-01106-1.
- ^ a b "About the Author: William R. Everdell". press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
- ^ a b Publications, Europa (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. Psychology Press. ISBN 9781857431797.
- ^ Garrard, Graeme (February 1, 2012). Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-8743-3.
- ^ Marcus Cunliffe "The Best Form of Government THE END OF KINGS: A History of Republics and Republicans. By William R. Everdell. Free Press. 370 pp. $19.95.", Washington Post, January 22, 1884.
- ^ Maistre, Joseph de (June 1, 1996). Against Rousseau: On the State of Nature and On the Sovereignty of the People. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 9780773566040.
- ^ Maeroff, Gene I. (November 17, 1983). "Classes on Nuclear War Move into Curriculums". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
- ^ "The New York Times - Search". www.NYTimes.com. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
- ^ "123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Organization of History Teachers Book Talk". aha.confex.com. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
- ^ McDowell, Edwin (November 13, 1983). "About Books and Authors". The New York Times.
- ^ Morrone, Francis (2001). An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn. Gibbs Smith. ISBN 978-1-4236-1911-6.
- ^ Sockett, Hugh (August 14, 2018). Moral Thought in Educational Practice. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-89296-7.
- ^ ""Notable Books of the Year 1997"". The New York Times. December 7, 1997. Retrieved October 17, 2024.
- ^ "Brooklyn Timeline".
- ^ Winerip, Michael (June 18, 2003). "ON EDUCATION; Moving Quickly Through History". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
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