John Fiske AKA Edmund Fisk Green Born: 30-Mar-1842 Birthplace: Hartford, CT Died: 4-Jul-1901 Location of death: East Gloucester, MA Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States Executive summary: Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy Father: Edmund Brewster Green (secretary of Henry Clay, d. 1852 in Panama) Mother: Mary Fisk Bound Father: Edwin Wallace Stoughton (stepfather, later Ambassador to Russia) Wife: Abby Morgan Brooks (m. 1864, six children) Daughter: Ethel Fisk
University: Harvard University (1863) Law School: Harvard Law School (1865) Professor: American History, Washington University in St. Louis
Author of books:
Myths and Myth-Makers (1872) Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (1874) The Unseen World (1876) Darwinism and Other Essays (1879) Excursions of an Evolutionist (1884) American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History (1885) The Critical Period of American History, 1783–1789 (1888) The Beginnings of New England (1889) The American Revolution (1891) The Discovery of America (1892) Old Virginia and Her Neighbors (1897) Through Nature to God (1899) Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America (1899) The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War (1901) New France and New England (1902) The Historical Writings of John Fiske (1902, works, 12 vols.) The Miscellaneous Writings of John Fiske (1902, works, 12 vols.)
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