{"id":1907,"date":"2015-06-02T13:44:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T20:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2015-06-02T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T20:56:13","slug":"sanders-jennings-bryan-1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1907","title":{"rendered":"SANDERS, JENNINGS BRYAN, 1901-1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>H<\/strong>istorian,\u00a0college professor, administrator. \u00a0Born&#8211; March 18, 1901, in Martin Co., Ind. Parents&#8211; Jefferson D. and Emma (Horsey) Sanders. Married&#8211; Mary Purviance, June 6, 1923. Education&#8211; Franklin College of Indiana, A.B. 1923; University of Chicago, A.M., 1925, Ph.D. , 1928. Taught at Denison University, 1926-27; University of Chicago, 1928-30; University of Alabama, 1930-35; University of Tennessee, 1935-43; and University of Washington; president of Memphis State College, 1943-46;\u00a0 specialist for U.S. Office of Education, 1948-59. \u00a0Served in U.S. Army Air Force, WWII. Received honorary LL.D. from Franklin College of Indiana, 1953.\u00a0Died February 9, 1990.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars, 1982; Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A College History of the United States. Evanston, Ill.; Row, Peterson, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Early American History (1492-1789); Political, Social, Economic. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice, Hall, 1938.<\/p>\n<p>Evolution of the Executive Department of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1935.<\/p>\n<p>General and Liberal Educational Content of Professional Curricula, No. 1 Pharmacy. Washington, D.C.; U.S. Office of Education, 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Historical Interpretations and American Historianship. Yellow Springs; Antioch College Press, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Methods Used by College Social Science Departments to Improve Students&#8217; Understanding of Post-World War II International Tensions. Washington, D.C.; Federal Security Agency, Office of Education, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency of the Continental Congress, 1774-89; a Study in American Institutional History. Decatur, Ga.; Dennis Lindsey Printing Co., 1930.<\/p>\n<p>Social Science Requirements for Bachelor&#8217;s Degree; a Study of Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science, and Sociology in General Education Requirements. Washington, D.C.; U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1959.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian,\u00a0college professor, administrator. \u00a0Born&#8211; March 18, 1901, in Martin Co., Ind. Parents&#8211; Jefferson D. and Emma (Horsey) Sanders. Married&#8211; Mary Purviance, June 6, 1923. Education&#8211; Franklin College of Indiana, A.B. 1923; University of Chicago, A.M., 1925, Ph.D. , 1928. Taught at Denison University, 1926-27; University of Chicago, 1928-30; University of Alabama, 1930-35; University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4434,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/4434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}