Albert Shaw (journalist)

Albert Shaw (July 23, 1857 – June 25, 1947) was an American journalist and academic.

Albert Shaw
Albert Shaw, c. 1899
Born	(1857-07-23)July 23, 1857 Shandon, Ohio
Died	June 25, 1947(1947-06-25) (aged 89)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Johns Hopkins University
Scientific career
Doctoral advisor	Richard T. Ely

Life

Born in Shandon, Ohio, to the family of Dr. Griffin M. Shaw, Albert Shaw moved to Iowa in the spring of 1875, where he attended Iowa College (now Grinnell College) specializing in constitutional history and economic science and graduated in 1879. While a student, Shaw also worked as a journalist at the Grinnell Herald. In 1881 he entered Johns Hopkins University as a graduate student.

In 1883, Shaw secured a position on the Minneapolis Tribune but returned to Johns Hopkins to complete a Ph.D. His thesis, "Icaria: A Chapter in the History of Communism", was later translated and published in Germany. After graduation, he resumed work at the Tribune.

In 1888, Shaw took a sociological tour of Britain and the European continent. There he met British journalist and reformer William Thomas Stead, editor of the British journal Review of Reviews.

In the autumn of 1890 Shaw was elected professor of international law and political institutions at Cornell University but resigned the post in 1891 to accept Stead's invitation to establish The American Review of Reviews as an American edition of the Review of Reviews. Shaw served as editor-in-chief of this publication until it ceased publication in 1937, ten years before his death at the age of ninety.

Shaw married Elizabeth Leonard Bacon of Reading, Pennsylvania, on September 5, 1893.

Shaw was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in October 1893.^[1] He was a leader of the Southern Education Board.

Selected works

• Shaw, Albert, ed. (1891–1937). The American Monthly and Review of Reviews. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• — (1895). Municipal Government in Great Britain. New York: The Century Company. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• — (1903). Municipal Government in Continental Europe. New York: The MacMillan Company. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• — (1904). Business Career in its Public Relations. San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• — (1907). Political Problems of American Development: The Columbia University Lectures. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231923620. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• — (1910). A Cartoon History of Roosevelt's Career. New York: The Review of Reviews Corporation. ISBN 9780598589354. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• — (1929). Abraham Lincoln: His Path to the Presidency. New York: The Review of Reviews Corporation.
• — (1929). Abraham Lincoln: The Year of His Election, 3rd Ed. New York: The Review of Reviews Corporation.

See also

• Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History

Notes

1. American Antiquarian Society Members Directory

References

• Graybar, Lloyd J. (1974). Albert Shaw of the "Review of Reviews": An Intellectual Biography. The University Press of Kentucky. p. 256. ISBN 9780813113005.
• Graybar, Lloyd J. (Winter 1965). "Albert Shaw's Ohio Youth". Ohio History. 74 (1). Ohio Historical Society: 28–34, 72–73.
• Gue, Benjamin F. (1903). History of Iowa from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Vol IV. New York: The Century History Company. p. 241. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Gue, Benjamin F. (1899). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume IX. New York: James T. White & Company. p. 470. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Rodgers, Daniel T. (1998). Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Harvard University Press. pp. 132–159 (Chapter 4, The Self-Owned City, Cities on a Hill). ISBN 978-0-674-05131-7.
• New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors

External links

• Works by Albert Shaw at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Albert Shaw at the Internet Archive
• "Shaw, Albert" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
• Albert Shaw at Find a Grave