Edward Perkins Channing (born: 15th June 1856, Massachusetts, U.S. - died: 7th January 1931) was an American historian educated at Harvard University, where he was a professor from 1883 to 1929. His best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American history. He was the son of William Ellery Channing. 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Dr. William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 - October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher of the early nineteenth century, and along with Andrews Norton one of its leading theologians. ...
Other works of his include
The War for Southern Independence (1925), Pulitzer Prize for history winner in 1926;
The Boylston Professorship was held from 1819 to 1851 by Edward Tyrrel Channing (1790–1856), a younger brother of William Ellery Channing.
Channing, like Adams, is descriptive and critical rather than practical; he gives a student standards by which to judge existing discourse rather than assistance in producing his own.
Channing’s personal conferences with students over their written work foreshadowed the changes which the nineteenth century wrought in the philology of rhetoric.
Channing wrote a reply, addressed to a liberal colleague and titled, A Letter to the Rev. Samuel C. Thacher on the Aspersions Contained in a Late Number of the Panoplist, on the Ministers of Boston and the Vicinity, 1815.
Channing's last public address, in Lenox, Massachusetts, on August 1, 1842, celebrated the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies and called for an end to slavery in the United States using similarly peaceful means.
Channing papers are at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, Massachusetts; the Andover-Harvard Theological Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts (including Federal Street/ Arlington Street Church records); the Houghton Library of Harvard University; and the Meadville/Lombard Theological School Library in Chicago, Illinois.
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