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The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement, by J. Franklin Jameson. 105 pp. Boston: Beacon Press. $.85

John Franklin Jameson, who died in 1937, was the man who put American history on a mass production basis. As organizer and administrator, he built the American Historical Association, ran the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Historical Research, managed the American Historical Review, and coordinated government archives.

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The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement, by J. Franklin Jameson. 105 pp. Boston: Beacon Press. $.85

John Franklin Jameson, who died in 1937, was the man who put American history on a mass production basis. As organizer and administrator, he built the American Historical Association, ran the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Historical Research, managed the American Historical Review, and coordinated government archives.