Marcus Wilson Jernegan (1872–1949) was an American historian[1] and a professor at the University of Chicago.[2] In 2017, a scholar from Harvard (Donald Yacovone) referred to him as one of the leading historians of his time who influenced textbooks of his era and noted the tainted and bigoted sources he relied on.[3]
Jernegan was from Edgartown, Massachusetts, son of ship captain Jared Jernegan and his second wife, Helen Jernegan. He graduated as valedictorian of Edgartown High School, then received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1906. His father was a whaler and his brother, Prescott Jernegan, became infamous as the promoter of the fraudulent Jernegan Process for extracting gold from seawater, used to defraud investors in Lubec, Maine.[4][5]
Jernegan was part of a pioneering effort to map colonial churches.[6] He wrote about slavery and conversion to Christianity in the United States.[7] He also wrote about the veracity of Benjamin Franklin's supposed kite experiments to demonstrate electricity.[8]
A collection of essays written by his students was published as a historiography in 1937.[10]
Selected publicationsedit
The American Colonies — 1492 to 1750
A Child’s Diary Aboard a Whale-ship (edited version of his sister's diaries)
The History of the Whaling Industry
Referencesedit
^"Finding Aid ... Marcus Jernegan Papers, 1939 - 1949" (PDF). Martha's Vineyard Museum. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
^"Jernegan, Marcus W. : Photographic Archive : The University of Chicago". Photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
^Benz, Robert J. (20 November 2017). "Teaching White Supremacy: How Textbooks Have Shaped Our Attitudes On Race". HuffPost.
^The Great Gold Swindle of Lubec, Maine by Ronald Pesha
^"Prescott Jernegan and the Gold from Seawater Swindle - The Martha's Vineyard Times". Mvtimes.com. 25 July 2012. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
^John K. Nelson (14 January 2003). A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776. Univ of North Carolina Press. pp. 341–. ISBN978-0-8078-7510-0.
^W., Jernegan, Marcus (1 April 1916). "Slavery and Conversion in the American Colonies". The American Historical Review. 21 (3). doi:10.1086/ahr/21.3.504.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Jernegan, Marcus W. (25 June 2018). "Benjamin Franklin's "Electrical Kite" and Lightning Rod". The New England Quarterly. 1 (2): 180–196. doi:10.2307/359764. JSTOR 359764.
^Robert Allen Rutland (2000). Clio's Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945-2000. University of Missouri Press. pp. 1–. ISBN978-0-8262-1316-7.
January 01, 1970
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