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Columbia University, 1969 Ph.D.
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}}Norman Fiering (born 1935 New York City) is an American historian, and Director and Librarian, Emeritus, of the John Carter Brown Library. LifeHe graduated from Dartmouth College in 1956, where he was a student of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in 1969. He taught at Stanford University between 1964 and 1969, and was a post-doctoral fellow for three years at the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia, 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 Brown University. Awards- Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Fellowship
- 1975-76 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- 1978-79 National Humanities Center Fellowship in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
- 1983 Merle Curti Award
BibliographyBooks- 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.
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) {{ISBN|978-0-19-506077-5}}
- "Philosophy" in the three-volume Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, ed. Jacob E. Cooke (New York, 1993).
Edited- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ExTmGeg2s0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Norman+Fiering&source=bl&ots=DIhpSfRZJR&sig=M51fUiSOgLlVlLvrHS5drJairSA&hl=en&ei=i-tdS9jpFKLEMYLEqYQG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCIQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false| title=The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 | place=New York| publisher= Berghahn Books| year= 2000| isbn=978-1-57181-210-0 | editors=Edward G. Gray, Norman Fiering }}
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m0JAGMuePO0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Norman+Fiering&source=bl&ots=9YUMs6Ch16&sig=tQ-Kq1tF481mFZPUqKCSou-Sax8&hl=en&ei=i-tdS9jpFKLEMYLEqYQG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CBwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=&f=false| title= The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450 to 1800 | place=New York| publisher= Berghahn Books| year= 2001| isbn= 978-1-57181-430-2 | editors=Paolo Bernardini, Norman Fiering }}
- {{cite book| title=The World of the Haitian Revolution | editors=David Patrick Geggus, Norman Fiering| publisher=Indiana University Press| year= 2009| isbn= 978-0-253-35232-3 }}
ReferencesExternal links- "Author's website"
- [https://www.vqronline.org/articles/1982/summer/gura-new-england/ "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
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