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He was born on November 4, 1877 in La Grange, Georgia, United States, a son of Alonzo Rabun and Jessie Elizabeth (Young) Phillips.
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He was born on November 4, 1877 in La Grange, Georgia, United States, a son of Alonzo Rabun and Jessie Elizabeth (Young) Phillips.
He was graduated at the University of Georgia in 1897 with the degree of A. B. , and two years later he received from the same institution that of A. M. Having developed an interest in the history of his native state, he continued his studies at Columbia University, where in 1902 he received the degree of Ph. D. His dissertation, fittingly enough in Georgia history, was entitled "Georgia and State Rights" and was awarded the Justin Winsor Prize by the American Historical Association.
Immediately on finishing his work at Columbia after studies, Phillips became instructor and later assistant professor of history in the University of Wisconsin, where he remained until 1908, when he accepted a professorship in Tulane University. Attracted by wider opportunities at the University of Michigan, especially in training graduate students, he became professor of American history in that institution three years later. Here he worked for the greater part of his remaining years (1911 - 29), making his greatest contributions to learning in his writings and in stimulating the graduate students who came to his lectures.
In 1929 he received the Albert Kahn fellowship, which enabled him to travel around the world and study plantation systems. This same year he accepted a professorship in Yale University, a position he held at the time of his death, which occurred in the midst of the most productive part of his life. Phillips broadened the scope of his historical interest from Georgia to the whole South. Avoiding for the most part political history, he wrote A History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt to 1860 (1908) and The Life of Robert Toombs (1913), and edited "The Correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb".
At the time of his death he was working on a three-volume history of the South, the first volume of which, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929), he had finished. His last writings were published posthumously under the title The Course of the South to Secession (1939), which he had intended as part of the second volume of his history of the South. He contributed to The South in the Building of the Nation.
His death, in his fifty-seventh year, was caused by cancer of the throat.
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On February 22, 1911, he married Lucie Mayo-Smith, and to this union were born four children, three of whom survived him, Ulrich Bonnell, Mabel Elizabeth, and Worthington Webster.