James Truslow Adams

Biographic Data

ID1017360
NAMEJames Truslow Adams
GIVEN NAMESJames Truslow
FAMILY NAMEAdams
SIGNATUREADAMS J T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Irvine
ORCID0000-0001-6223-9031
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS56
TOTAL CITATIONS107
AUTHOR COUNT56
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1921
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Making valuable energy: Public forums, municipal futures, and infrastructural pathways

    Open AccessAlison Kenner, James Truslow Adams et al.ARTICLECritique of Anthropology2024References: 52

    This article analyzes public discussions and engagements with Philadelphia’s energy system to highlight the degrees of tension between diverse ethical frames and energy-based strategies of value production. Looking at three different instances and genres of energy-transition planning and expression, we argue that any such tensions or alignments turn on the specific units, categories, and scales of analysis used to construct and understand them. O…

  • What is energy literacy? Responding to vulnerability in Philadelphia's energy ecologies

    Open AccessJames Truslow Adams, Alison Kenner et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2022Cited by: 4References: 29

    Energy literacy scholarship has taken on the notable challenge of understanding and influencing the way people think about and consume energy to develop more sustainable energy systems. The idea is that information and understanding are the primary missing links between our current society and a future, more sustainable populace. Recent work in this field, however, has presented evidence to the contrary, throwing the value of current frames and p…

  • The Epic of America

    James Truslow Adams, Howard A Schneiderman et al.BOOKEpic of America2017

    There is a tradition of one-volume narrative histories of the United States in which the political, military, diplomatic, social, and economic strands are skillfully interwoven. Rather than add to these volumes, The Epic of America paints a sweeping picture of the diverse past that has created America's national story. In this important narrative, James Truslow Adams reviews how the ordinary American has matured over time in outlook, character, a…

  • The Next World War: Computers Are the Weapons and the Front Line Is Everywhere

    Eliot A Cohen, James Truslow Adams et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1998Cited by: 6

    A title which discusses how war is likely to be fought in future and tells how the Pentagon and other war planners are currently working to perfect a method of waging war called Information Warfare which uses modern technology to identify, demoralise and destroy the enemy without committing significant military forces to the field

  • Engines of War: Merchants of Death and the New Arms Race

    Gregory F Treverton, James Truslow Adams et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1990Cited by: 5

    Describes how, since the invasion of Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq war, the arms trade has changed, with weapons now being designed mainly for export and power passing from the sellers to the buyers

  • Album of American History. Volume V, Index

    Ellen S Morgan, James Truslow AdamsARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1951

  • Album of American History. Volume IV, End of an Era

    Edmund S Morgan, James Truslow AdamsARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1949

  • Album of American History. Volume IV, End of an Era

    Walter F Johnson, James Truslow AdamsARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1949

  • Album of American History, 1853-1893. Volume III

    Stanley Pargellis, James Truslow Adams et al.ARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1947

    Journal Article Album of American History, 1853–1893, Volume III. Editor in Chief: James Truslow Adams. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. xi + 435 pp. Illustrations. $7.50.) and The Santa Fe Trail, A Chapter in the Opening of the West. By The Editors of Look. (New York: Random House, 1946. 271 pp. Illustrations. $3.50.) Get access Stanley Pargellis Stanley Pargellis The Newberry Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…

  • Album of American History

    Edmund S Morgan, James Truslow AdamsARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1946

  • Album of American History. Volume II, 1783-1853

    Fletcher M Green, James Truslow AdamsARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1946

  • Adult Education

    Ordway Tead, James Truslow AdamsARTICLEThe Journal of Higher Education1945

  • History of the English-Speaking Peoples . R. B. Mowat , Preston Slosson

    James Truslow AdamsARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1944

  • Album of American History: Colonial Period

    Edmund S Morgan, James Truslow Adams et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1944

  • The American: The Making of a New Man

    Oscar Handlin, James Truslow AdamsARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1944

  • Frontiers of American Culture: A Study of Adult Education in a Democracy

    Walter P Rogers, James Truslow AdamsARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1944

    Journal Article Frontiers of American Culture: A Study of Adult Education in a Democracy. By James Truslow Adams. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. xiv + 352 pp. Bibliography and index. $2.50.) Get access Walter P. Rogers Walter P. Rogers Potsdam State Teachers College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 31, Issue 2, September 1944, Pages 286–287, https://doi.org/10.…

  • Album of American History: Colonial Period

    Stanley Pragellis, James Truslow Adams et al.ARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1944

    Album of American History: Colonial Period. James Truslow Adams, Editor in Chief; R. V. Coleman, Managing Editor; W. J. Burke, Associate Editor; Atkinson Dymock, Art Director. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. xiii + 411 pp. Illustrations. $7.50.) Get access Stanley Pargellis Stanley Pargellis The Newberry Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 31, Issue 3, Dece…

  • The American: The Making of a New Man

    Steuart Henderson Britt, James Truslow AdamsARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1944

  • Atlas of American History

    Oscar Handlin, James Truslow Adams et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1943

  • Atlas of American History

    Louis Pelzer, James Truslow Adams et al.ARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1943

  • Atlas of American History

    Open AccessRalph H Brown, James Truslow AdamsARTICLEGeographical Review1943

  • Dictionary of American History

    James Truslow Adams, R V ColemanARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1941

  • What Does Col. Lindbergh Believe

    James Truslow AdamsARTICLECurrent History1940

    Essay| September 01 1940 What Does Col. Lindbergh Believe?: A discussion of the famous aviator’s recent speeches by a prominent American historian who asks their meaning James Truslow Adams James Truslow Adams Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1940) 52 (1): 17–18. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1940.52.1.17 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer…

  • The English Navigation Laws: A Seventeenth-Century Experiment in Social Engineering

    Elliott Perkins, Lawrence A Harper et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1940

  • Empire on the Seven Seas: The British Empire, 1784-1939

    Donald Grove Barnes, James Truslow AdamsARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1940

    Journal Article Empire on the Seven Seas: The British Empire, 1784–1939. By James T. Adams. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. xiv + 391 pp. End-cover maps and chronology. $3.50.) Get access Donald Grove Barnes Donald Grove Barnes Western Reserve University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 27, Issue 2, September 1940, Page 321, https://doi.org/10.2307/1896858 Publi…