Before moving to Harvard University, Jones was a member of the English faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1925 he approached president Harry Woodburn Chase, lamenting the absence of a bookstore in the town of Chapel Hill, and offered to open one in his office. This eventually became the Bull's Head Bookshop, now located in Student Stores.[5]
In February 1954, Jones gave the dedicatory address at the opening of an addition to the University of Wisconsin's Memorial Library, entitled "Books and the Independent Mind." The crux of his comments was contained in this comment: "While it is true that we in this nation remain free to be idiotic, it does not necessarily follow that we must be idiotic in order to be free!"[6]
Personal life and deathedit
In 1927, Jones married the former Bessie Judith Zaban, of Atlanta, Georgia, in New York City,[7] and they remained married until his death.[2]
Howard Mumford Jones died age 88 on May 11, 1980, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after a brief illness.[2]
History and the Contemporary: Essays in Nineteenth-Century Literature (University of Wisconsin Press, 1964) read online
Belief and Disbelief in American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 1969) read online
The Age of Energy: Varieties of American Experience, 1865-1915 (Viking Press, 1971) read online
Revolution and Romanticism (Harvard University Press, 1974) read online
Howard Mumford Jones: An Autobiography (1979) read online
Jones also wrote the introduction to Thomas Wentworth Higginson's book Army Life in a Black Regiment (Michigan State University Press, 1960).[13]
See alsoedit
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Referencesedit
^Elizabeth A. Brennan, Elizabeth C. Clarage. Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winnersISBN 978-1-57356-111-2
^ abcKihss, Peter (13 May 1980). "Howard Mumford Jones, American Culture Historian". New York Times. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
^Wier, Albert Ernest (1943). Thesaurus of the Arts: Drama, Music, Radio, Painting, Screen, Television, Literature, Sculpture, Architecture, Ballet. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 360. OCLC 675446.
^Jones, Howard Mumford. "Books and the Independent Mind: An Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Memorial Library of the University of Wisconsin." February 1, 1954. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1954, 22 pp.
^"Jones-Zaban". The Raleigh News & Observer. Raleigh, NC. 20 June 1927. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Howard Mumford Jones". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
^"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
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Abt, John; Myerson, Michael (1993). Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780252020308.
^Center, The Hannah Arendt. "Howard Mumford Jones on Thinking". hac.bard.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
^"Army Life in a Black Regiment". MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1960.
External linksedit
Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-, recipient. Miscellaneous papers: Guide at Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Papers of Howard Mumford Jones, 1936-1980
Ludwig, Richard M., Aspects of American Poetry: Essays Presented to Howard Mumford Jones (Ohio State University Press, 1963) read online
Brier, Peter A., Howard Mumford Jones and the Dynamics of Liberal Humanism (University of Missouri Press, 1994) read online online review by David Levin