{"id":1380,"date":"2014-12-17T11:40:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T18:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2018-04-09T10:07:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:07:26","slug":"garrett-mitchell-bennett-1881-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"GARRETT, MITCHELL BENNETT, 1881-1959"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; University professor. Born&#8211; April 17, 1881, near Lineville. Parents&#8211; Mitchell Bennett and Matilda Caroline (McCain) Garrett. Married&#8211; Dora Mayfred Matthews, May 12, 1923. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Howard College, B.A., 1900, M.A., 1903; Cornell University, Ph.D., 1910. Instructor of history at several institutions including\u00a0University of Mississippi, University of Michigan, St. Lawrence University, and\u00a0 Howard College; Professor of Modern European History \u00a0at the University of North Carolina, 1927\u00a0&#8211; 1952. Member, American Historical Association and Southern Historical Society.\u00a0 Awarded the Mayflower Cup by the state of North Carolina, 1936; received an honorary LL. D. degree from Howard College, 1942. Died December 3, 1959.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>National Cyclopedia of American Biography; obituary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Estates General of 1789; the Problems of Composition and Organization. New York; D. Appleton Century, 1935.<\/p>\n<p>Europe since 1815. New York; F.S. Crofts, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>European History, 1500-1815. New York; American Book Co., 1940.<\/p>\n<p>The French Colonial Question, 1789-1791. Ann Arbor, Mich.; G. Wahr, 1916.<\/p>\n<p>Horse and Buggy Days on Hatchet Creek. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty Years of Howard College, 1842-1902. Birmingham, Ala.; Howard College, 1927.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; University professor. Born&#8211; April 17, 1881, near Lineville. Parents&#8211; Mitchell Bennett and Matilda Caroline (McCain) Garrett. Married&#8211; Dora Mayfred Matthews, May 12, 1923. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Howard College, B.A., 1900, M.A., 1903; Cornell University, Ph.D., 1910. Instructor of history at several institutions including\u00a0University of Mississippi, University of Michigan, St. Lawrence University, and\u00a0 Howard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7799,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/7799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}