Background
William Romeyn Everdell was born on June 25, 1941, in New York City, New York, United States; the son of William and Eleanore (Darling) Everdell.
129 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States
At the beginning of his career, Everdell joined the faculty at St. Ann’s, a private school in Brooklyn, as a chair of the history department; he has continued at St. Ann’s as head of the upper school from 1973 to 1975, then as co-chair of the history department from 1975 to 1984; beginning in 1984, he became the school’s dean of humanities.
Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
Everdell attended Princeton University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1964.
Paris, France
In 1964 he went overseas and earned a certificate at the University of Paris.
Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Everdell did graduate work at Harvard University, where he received a Master of Arts degree in 1965
New York, NY 10003, United States
Everdell did graduate work at New York University, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1971.
129 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States
At the beginning of his career, Everdell joined the faculty at St. Ann’s, a private school in Brooklyn, as a chair of the history department; he has continued at St. Ann’s as head of the upper school from 1973 to 1975, then as co-chair of the history department from 1975 to 1984; beginning in 1984, he became the school’s dean of humanities.
(A History of Republics and Republicans; The End of Kings ...)
A History of Republics and Republicans; The End of Kings traces the history of republican governments and the key figures that are united by the simple republican maxim: No man shall rule alone.
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1983
(The Roots of Romantic Religion; This text seeks to show w...)
The Roots of Romantic Religion; This text seeks to show why and how the anti-religious attitude of Enlightenment writers gave way to the acceptance and even revival of religious sentiment in the early 19th century.
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1987
William Romeyn Everdell was born on June 25, 1941, in New York City, New York, United States; the son of William and Eleanore (Darling) Everdell.
Everdell attended Princeton University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1964. That same year he went overseas, where he earned a certificate at the University of Paris. Everdell did graduate work at Harvard University, where he received a Master of Arts degree in 1965, and at New York University, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1971.
At the beginning of his career, Everdell joined the faculty at St. Ann’s, a private school in Brooklyn, as a chair of the history department. He continued at St. Ann’s as head of the upper school from 1973 to 1975, then as co-chair of the history department from 1975 to 1984. In 1984, he became the school’s dean of humanities.
Everdell has contributed numerous articles to academic journals and newspapers, and in 1974 his first book (coauthored) Rowboats to Rapid Transit, appeared. The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans followed in 1983. This book, which examines the history of republicanism from the days of the Hebrew prophets to the twentieth century, explains the essential difference between a republic and a democracy. Everdell discusses Solon, Brutus, Machiavelli, Milton, Robespierre, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin as particularly important republican theorists, and reminds readers that democracy and liberty are not synonymous. The End of Kings was hailed as a work that sheds considerable light on a complex subject.
Everdell’s next book, Christian Apologetics in France (1987), found a more limited audience, but The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought (1997) attracted considerable critical notice. In the book Everdell discusses such topics as mathematics, neuroscience, music, literature, physics and the Holocaust, and such personages as Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, Georges Seurat, Arthur Rimbaud and Walt Whitman, arguing that the most striking thinkers of the modern period shared a perception of the world as fragmented and discontinuous. In an enthusiastic piece in the New York Times Book Review, Hugh Kenner praised Everdell’s synthesis of modernism’s many strands, emphasizing the importance of Everdell’s observation that modernism began not with art but with number theory. Though Kenner questioned Everdell’s slight attention to James Joyce’s Ulysses and to the poetry of Ezra Pound, he admired the author’s chapter on the poets Whitman, Rimbaud and Laforgue as well as Everdell’s ability to show the connections among seemingly disparate disciplines - atomic theory and cubist painting, mathematical set theory and the music of Gabriel-Urbain Faure and Claude Debussy.
(The Roots of Romantic Religion; This text seeks to show w...)
1987(A History of Republics and Republicans; The End of Kings ...)
1983(Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought by W...)
1997(A history of Brooklyn Heights)
1973Quotations: “I am a teacher first of all, and particularly proud of having founded the history department at St. Ann’s School, where colleagues and students have helped in the production of all my books, and many have written books of their own.”
Everdell is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Society of French Historical Studies, the National Council for History Education, the Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Organization of History Teachers, the Brooklyn Historical Society, the International Society for Intellectual History, the New England Society of Brooklyn and the Rembrandt Club.
Everdell married Barbara Scott on December 21, 1966. The couple produced two children - Joshua William and Christian Romeyn.