num_pages: 149
description: Former Massachusetts Historical Society director Louis Leonard Tucker's Clio's Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of the Massachusetts Historical Society offers not only a useful biographical sketch of Belknap, but also a close examination of his values as a historian and an in-depth treatment of the beginnings of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Belknap's preeminent role in the establishment of the Society in 1791 (as the first historical society in the Americas).
language: English
title: Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of The Massachusetts Historical Society
titlecomplete: Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of The Massachusetts Historical Society
publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society