Justin Harvey Smith (born January 13, 1857,

Boscawen, New Hampshire Boscawen is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,998 at the 2020 census. History The native Pennacook people called the area ''Contoocook'', meaning "place of the river near pines". In March 1697, Hannah ...

; died March 21, 1930,

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) was an American

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and specialist on the

Mexican–American War The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the (''United States intervention in Mexico''), was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed the ...

. Smith was educated at

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(B.A. 1877; M.A. 1881) and Union Theological Seminary (1879–1881). Smith worked for

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publishers 1881–1883 and Ginn & Co. 1883–1898 (becoming a partner in 1890); he was Professor of Modern History at Dartmouth 1899–1908. He resigned his professorship in 1908 to pursue historical research, and published The ''Annexation of Texas'' in 1911 and ''The War with Mexico'' in 1919. For the latter, he received the

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in 1920 and the first Loubat Prize in 1923. From 1917 to 1923, Smith was chairman of the Historical Manuscripts Commission of the

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. Smith also wrote ''Our Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony'' in 1907. He wrote ''Arnold's March from Cambridge to Quebec'' in 1903. In 1899 he wrote ''The Troubadours at Home''. Smith's papers were donated to the Latin American collection of the

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library, (now the

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, by a book dealer, Michael M. Russel, who had acquired them. The collection enriched the university's materials on the Mexican–American War. On May 22, 1892, Smith married Mary Ellen Barnard in Boston, Massachusetts; they divorced in 1895. Her stage name was Marie Ellene Barna, also known as

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. Smith was the son of Rev. Ambrose Smith (1820–1882) and Cynthia Marie Egerton (1821–1899), and a descendant of Gov. William Bradford of the ''Mayflower'' via his mother's father, Ariel Egerton (1789–1859).General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, Massachusetts. https://www.themayflowersociety.org/

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Justin Harvey Smith Manuscripts
at Dartmouth College Library 1857 births 1930 deaths American historians Dartmouth College alumni Dartmouth College faculty Pulitzer Prize for History winners People from Boscawen, New Hampshire {{US-historian-stub

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