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Norman Fiering (born 1935 in
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) is an American
historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...
, and Director and Librarian, Emeritus, of the
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.


Life

He graduated from
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in 1956, where he was a student of
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (; July 6, 1888February 24, 1973) was a historian and social philosophy, social philosopher, whose work spanned the disciplines of history, theology, sociology, linguistics and beyond. Born in Berlin, Germany into a non-obs ...
, and from
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with a Ph.D. in 1969. He taught at
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between 1964 and 1969, and was a post-doctoral fellow for three years at the Institute of Early American History and Culture in
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, 1969-1972. In 1972 he was appointed Editor of Publications at the Institute. From 1983 to 2006, he was Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at
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.


Awards

* Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Fellowship * 1975-76
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Fellowship * 1978-79
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Fellowship in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina * 1983 Merle Curti Award


Bibliography


Books

* ''Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition'', University of North Carolina Press. 1981 * ''Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context,'' University of North Carolina Press. 1981 * ''A Guide to Book Publication for Historians'' (Washington, D. C.: American Historical Assn.), 1979, pamphlet, 40 pp. * "Understanding Rosenstock-Huessy: A Haphazard Collection of Ventures", Wipf and Stock, 2022 * "James Logan's 'The Duties of Man As They May Be Deduced from Nature': An Analysis of the Unpublished Manuscript, American Philosophical Society, 2022


Articles

* "President Samuel Johnson and the Circle of Knowledge," William and Mary Quarterly, XXVIII (April 1971), 199-236. * "Solomon Stoddard's Library at Harvard in 1664," Harvard Library Bulletin (July 1972), 255-269. * "Will and Intellect in the New England Mind," William and Mary Quarterly, XXIX (Oct. 1972), 515-558. (Best article award, William and Mary Quarterly, 1972). * "A Reply to George Steiner," Visible Language, VI (Summer, 1972), 218-222. * "Irresistible Compassion: An Aspect of Eighteenth-Century Sympathy and Humanitarianism," Journal of the History of Ideas, XXXVII (April 1976), 195-218. * "Editing the Historian's First Book," The Maryland Historian, VII (Spring 1976), 61-69. * "The Transatlantic Republic of Letters: A Note on the Circulation of Learned Periodicals to Early Eighteenth-Century America," William and Mary Quarterly, XXXIII (Oct. 1976), 642-660. * "Early American Philosophy vs. Philosophy in Early America," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, XIII (Summer 1977), 216-237. * "Benjamin Franklin and the Way to Virtue," American Quarterly, XXX (July 1978), 199-223. * "The First American Enlightenment: Tillotson, Leverett, and Philosophical Anglicanism," New England Quarterly, LIV (Sept. 1981), 307-334. (Winner of the Walter Muir Whitehill Prize, Col. Society of Massachusetts). * "Comment on Thomas Tanselle's, 'The Bibliography and Textual Study of American Books," American Antiquarian Society Proceedings, XCV, Part I (Worcester, Mass.), 1985, 152-160. * "The Rationalist Foundations of Jonathan Edwards's Metaphysics," in Nathan O. Hatch and Harry S. Stout, Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience (Oxford U. Press, 1989) * "Philosophy" in the three-volume Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, ed. Jacob E. Cooke (New York, 1993).


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References


External links


"Author's website""The New England Mind Revisited", ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', Philip F. Gura, Summer 1982"Interview with Norman Fiering", Daniel J. Slive, ''RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage,'' VI, no. 2 (Fall 2005), pp. 124-140.
* "'Tremendous Satisfaction from Helping People to Pursue Their Research,' An Interview with Norman Fiering," Jaap Jacobs, ''Itinerario,'' XXVIII, no. 2 (2004), pp. 7–13 {{DEFAULTSORT:Fiering, Norman 1935 births Dartmouth College alumni Columbia University alumni Stanford University Department of History faculty Brown University faculty Living people American librarians 21st-century American historians 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers