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Philip Alexander Bruce (March 7, 1856 – August 16, 1933)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Philip Alexander Bruce )〕 was an American historian who specialized in the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Author of over a dozen volumes of history, Bruce's scope ranged from the first Virginia settlements to the early 20th century. He is notable for the first complete history of the University of Virginia, descriptions of the lives of the original settlers of Virginia, and for his insights into Thomas Jefferson's wide-ranging intellect. Bruce was born into a plantation family in Charlotte County, Virginia;〔 his younger brother was William Cabell Bruce, later a US Senator from Maryland. Philip studied literature and history at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1876; he went on to get an LL.B. from Harvard University in 1879. Bruce began a long career as a published historian in 1889 with the publication of ''The Plantation Negro as a Freeman''. His most notable research came with a series of three works on seventeenth century Virginia, covering the economic, social, and institutional frameworks of the first Virginia settlers, published between 1896 and 1910. Bruce was the corresponding secretary of the Virginia Historical Society. He was awarded honorary doctorates by both The College of William and Mary〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Honorary Degree Recipients )〕 and Washington and Lee University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Washington and Lee University: Honorary Degrees Conferred, by Date of Award )〕 In the last decade of his life, Bruce authored a five-volume history of the first hundred years of the University of Virginia, which is credited for expanding the historical perspective on the talents of Thomas Jefferson, and co-authored a five-volume history of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He died after a long illness at his home near Charlottesville. He is remembered〔 for attempts to raise the consciousness of Northern readers to Virginia’s contributions to the history of the United States through a series of letters to the ''New York Times'' on such topics as the claim of Virginia's House of Burgesses as the second elected legislature after the British Parliament and the importance of Jamestown as the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. ==Published works== * * * * * * * * * * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Philip Alexander Bruce」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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