William Mac Donald

Background

Donald, William Mac was born on July 31, 1863 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Review William and Frances (Jordan) M.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1892. Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Union, 1895. Doctor of Laws, University of North.B., 1900.

Career

1 son, John Haskell. Professor history and economics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1892-1893. Professor of history and political science, Bowdoin, 1893-1901. Professor of history, Brown University, 1901-1917.

Lecturer on government, University of California, 1917-1918.

Lecturer American history, Yale, 1924-1926. Special foreign correspondent in Europe and associate editor, The Nation, 1918-1920, acting literature editor, 1929, editorial writer, 1930-1931.

Same for The Freeman (New York), 1923-1924, Commercial and Financial Chronicle (New York), since 1924. Chairman Public Archives communications of America History Association, 1900-1902.

Editor: Select Documents Illustrative of the History of the United States, 1898.

Select Charters and Other Documents Illustrative of American History, 1899. Johnston’s High School History of the United States, 1901. Select Statutes and Other Documents Illustrative of the History of the United States, 1903.

Burke on Conciliation, 1904.

Documentary Source Book of American History, 1908, 3d edit, 1926. Parkman’s Oregon Trail, 1911.

Author: History and Government of Maine, 1902. Jacksonian Democracy, 1905.

Larger History of the United States (with T. West. Higginson), 1905.

From Jefferson to Lincoln, 1913. A New Constitution for a New America, 1921. Reconstruction in France, 1922.

Three Centuries of American Democracy, 1923.

The Intellectual Worker and His Work, 1923. The Menace of Recovery, 1934.

Contributor to Encyclopedia British, Nelson’s Cyclo., Cyclo. of America History and Government, Dictionary of America Biography, Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, et cetera Wrote Essay on Henry Adams in American Writers on American Literature, 1931.

Home: New York, New New York

Achievements

• William Mac Donald has been listed as a notable author, journalist by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Harriet B. Haskell, November 24, 1887.

Father:

Review William M.

Mother:

Frances (Jordan) M.

Spouse:

Harriet B. Haskell