Word: jenkinses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roy Jenkins, Attlee's official biographer, says: "By the end of 1907 he was a Socialist, in the very practical sense that he wished to devote his life to the improvement of working-class conditions."
The idea of assembling U.S. historical documents had been something historians had talked about for more than a century. In 1941, with one assistant, stubby little Professor Jenkins set out to make it an actuality.
Many of the documents, Jenkins found, had themselves traveled far. The only known copy of the Georgia legislative journal of 1799 was photographed in the Manhattan apartment of a private collector. A Louisiana senate journal turned up in the New York State Library at Albany. The Massachusetts State Library turned...
Blood Bank. Last week, on Study Deck 38 of the Library of Congress, surrounded by reels of film stacked high like giant coins, William Jenkins was sorting, indexing, and cataloguing his Monumenta Americana. When a 600-page inventory is published three months from now, historians will be able to locate...
Jenkins likes to think of the Monumenta as the first great "encyclopedia of the nation's sources ... a virtual blood bank of the vital life blood of research ... It is delivered," says he proudly, "for the everlasting service of men."