This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. - Format: Paperback
- Author: John Lord
- ISBN10: 140990606X
- ISBN13: 9781409906063
John Lord 1810-1894 was an American historian and lecturer. Born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he graduated from Dartmouth in 1833 and then entered the Andover Theological Seminary, where in his second year he wrote a series of lectures on the Dark Ages, which he delivered the next fall during a tour through northern New York. After graduating at Andover he became an agent for the American Peace Society. Later he was called to a church at New Marlboro, Massachusetts, and then to one at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In 1840 he gave up his pastoral studies to become a public lecturer. In 1864, he received his LL. D. from the University of the City of New York. He wrote a Life of Emma Willard in 1873. Amongst his other works are: A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon 1849 , The Old Roman World: The Grandeur and Failure of its Civilization 1868 , Ancient States and Empires 1869 and Beacon Lights of History 14 volumes, 1883-96 .
