https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php?title=Noah_Webster&feed=atom&action=historyNoah Webster - Revision history2024-03-29T12:44:07ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.2https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php?title=Noah_Webster&diff=41974&oldid=prevM-westerby at 21:48, October 5, 20212021-10-05T21:48:25Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Noah Webster''' (October 16, 1758&ndash;May 28, 1843), a lexicographer, editor, political writer, and author, made important contributions to the articulation of a distinctive national culture in post-Revolutionary America. He is best known as the creator of the first comprehensive American dictionary, which documented many of the differences between American and British usage of the English language.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Noah Webster''' (October 16, 1758&ndash;May 28, 1843), a lexicographer, editor, political writer, and author, made important contributions to the articulation of a distinctive national culture in post-Revolutionary America. He is best known as the creator of the first comprehensive American dictionary, which documented many of the differences between American and British usage of the English language.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following an unsatisfactory early education, Noah Webster studied Latin and Greek privately and, at the age of fifteen, entered Yale College, where he came under the influence of Ezra Stiles and [[Timothy Dwight]]. He went on to study law and teach school before turning his attention to writing a series of newspaper articles promoting the American Revolution and urging a permanent separation from Britain. After founding a private school in Goshen, New York, he produced a three-volume compendium, ''A Grammatical Institute of the English Language'', consisting of a speller (1783), a grammar (1784), and a reader (1785).<ref>David Micklethwait, ''Noah Webster and the American Dictionary'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2005), 21&ndash;22, 54&ndash;73, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/T756K4GR view on Zotero].</ref> These works provided alternatives to imported English textbooks and established a uniquely American approach to teaching children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. Webster’s speller was the most popular American book of its time, with 15 million copies sold by 1837.<ref>Catherine Reef, ''Education and Learning in America'' (New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009), 22, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/B3D537IS view on Zotero].</ref> In 1787 Webster founded the ''American Magazine'' with the intention of promoting an American cultural identity distinct from that of Britain.<ref>Edward E. Chielens, “Periodicals and the Development of an American Literature,” in ''Making America, Making American Literature'', ed. A. Robert Lee and W. M. Verhoeven (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), 95&ndash;96, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G25NKMA3 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following an unsatisfactory early education, Noah Webster studied Latin and Greek privately and, at the age of fifteen, entered Yale College, where he came under the influence of Ezra Stiles and [[Timothy Dwight]]. He went on to study law and teach school before turning his attention to writing a series of newspaper articles promoting the American Revolution and urging a permanent separation from Britain. After founding a private school in Goshen, New York, he produced a three-volume compendium, ''A Grammatical Institute of the English Language'', consisting of a speller (1783), a grammar (1784), and a reader (1785).<ref>David Micklethwait, ''Noah Webster and the American Dictionary'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2005), 21&ndash;22, 54&ndash;73, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/T756K4GR view on Zotero].</ref> These works provided alternatives to imported English textbooks and established a uniquely American approach to teaching children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. Webster’s speller was the most popular American book of its time, with 15 million copies sold by 1837.<ref>Catherine Reef, ''Education and Learning in America'' (New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009), 22, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/B3D537IS view on Zotero].</ref> In 1787 Webster founded the ''American Magazine'' with the intention of promoting an American cultural identity distinct from that of Britain.<ref>Edward E. Chielens, “Periodicals and the Development of an American Literature,” in ''Making America, Making American Literature'', ed. A. Robert Lee and W. M. Verhoeven (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), 95&ndash;96, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G25NKMA3 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following an unsatisfactory early education, Noah Webster studied Latin and Greek privately and, at the age of fifteen, entered Yale College, where he came under the influence of Ezra Stiles and [[Timothy Dwight]]. He went on to study law and teach school before turning his attention to writing a series of newspaper articles promoting the American Revolution and urging a permanent separation from Britain. After founding a private school in Goshen, New York, he produced a three-volume compendium, ''A Grammatical Institute of the English Language'', consisting of a speller (1783), a grammar (1784), and a reader (1785).<ref>David Micklethwait, ''Noah Webster and the American Dictionary'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2005), 21&ndash;22, 54&ndash;73, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/T756K4GR view on Zotero].</ref> These works provided alternatives to imported English textbooks and established a uniquely American approach to teaching children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. Webster’s speller was the most popular American book of its time, with 15 million copies sold by 1837.<ref>Catherine Reef, ''Education and Learning in America'' (New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009), 22, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/B3D537IS view on Zotero].</ref> In 1787 Webster founded the ''American Magazine'' with the intention of promoting an American cultural identity distinct from that of Britain.<ref>Edward E. Chielens, “Periodicals and the Development of an American Literature,” in ''Making America, Making American Literature'', ed. A. Robert Lee and W. M. Verhoeven (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), 95&ndash;96, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G25NKMA3 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following an unsatisfactory early education, Noah Webster studied Latin and Greek privately and, at the age of fifteen, entered Yale College, where he came under the influence of Ezra Stiles and [[Timothy Dwight]]. He went on to study law and teach school before turning his attention to writing a series of newspaper articles promoting the American Revolution and urging a permanent separation from Britain. After founding a private school in Goshen, New York, he produced a three-volume compendium, ''A Grammatical Institute of the English Language'', consisting of a speller (1783), a grammar (1784), and a reader (1785).<ref>David Micklethwait, ''Noah Webster and the American Dictionary'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2005), 21&ndash;22, 54&ndash;73, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/T756K4GR view on Zotero].</ref> These works provided alternatives to imported English textbooks and established a uniquely American approach to teaching children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. Webster’s speller was the most popular American book of its time, with 15 million copies sold by 1837.<ref>Catherine Reef, ''Education and Learning in America'' (New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009), 22, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/B3D537IS view on Zotero].</ref> In 1787 Webster founded the ''American Magazine'' with the intention of promoting an American cultural identity distinct from that of Britain.<ref>Edward E. Chielens, “Periodicals and the Development of an American Literature,” in ''Making America, Making American Literature'', ed. A. Robert Lee and W. M. Verhoeven (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), 95&ndash;96, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G25NKMA3 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following an unsatisfactory early education, Noah Webster studied Latin and Greek privately and, at the age of fifteen, entered Yale College, where he came under the influence of Ezra Stiles and [[Timothy Dwight]]. He went on to study law and teach school before turning his attention to writing a series of newspaper articles promoting the American Revolution and urging a permanent separation from Britain. After founding a private school in Goshen, New York, he produced a three-volume compendium, ''A Grammatical Institute of the English Language'', consisting of a speller (1783), a grammar (1784), and a reader (1785).<ref>David Micklethwait, ''Noah Webster and the American Dictionary'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2005), 21&ndash;22, 54&ndash;73, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/T756K4GR view on Zotero].</ref> These works provided alternatives to imported English textbooks and established a uniquely American approach to teaching children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. Webster’s speller was the most popular American book of its time, with 15 million copies sold by 1837.<ref>Catherine Reef, ''Education and Learning in America'' (New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009), 22, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/B3D537IS view on Zotero].</ref> In 1787 Webster founded the ''American Magazine'' with the intention of promoting an American cultural identity distinct from that of Britain.<ref>Edward E. Chielens, “Periodicals and the Development of an American Literature,” in ''Making America, Making American Literature'', ed. A. Robert Lee and W. M. Verhoeven (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), 95&ndash;96, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G25NKMA3 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following an unsatisfactory early education, Noah Webster studied Latin and Greek privately and, at the age of fifteen, entered Yale College, where he came under the influence of Ezra Stiles and [[Timothy Dwight]]. He went on to study law and teach school before turning his attention to writing a series of newspaper articles promoting the American Revolution and urging a permanent separation from Britain. After founding a private school in Goshen, New York, he produced a three-volume compendium, ''A Grammatical Institute of the English Language'', consisting of a speller (1783), a grammar (1784), and a reader (1785).<ref>David Micklethwait, ''Noah Webster and the American Dictionary'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2005), 21&ndash;22, 54&ndash;73, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/T756K4GR view on Zotero].</ref> These works provided alternatives to imported English textbooks and established a uniquely American approach to teaching children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. Webster’s speller was the most popular American book of its time, with 15 million copies sold by 1837.<ref>Catherine Reef, ''Education and Learning in America'' (New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009), 22, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/B3D537IS view on Zotero].</ref> In 1787 Webster founded the ''American Magazine'' with the intention of promoting an American cultural identity distinct from that of Britain.<ref>Edward E. Chielens, “Periodicals and the Development of an American Literature,” in ''Making America, Making American Literature'', ed. A. Robert Lee and W. M. Verhoeven (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), 95&ndash;96, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G25NKMA3 view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Proceeds from the speller funded Webster’s work on a dictionary through which he intended to promote an American language with its own idioms, pronunciation, and style. In 1806 Webster published ''A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language'', the first truly American dictionary. He immediately began work on a more ambitious work, ''An American Dictionary of the English Language'' (1828). His research on word origins necessitated learning twenty-eight languages, including Anglo-Saxon, Aramaic, Russian, and Sanskrit.<ref>Joshua Kendall, ''The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture'' (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2010), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q9UNXXKS view on Zotero].</ref> Webster also documented unique American words that had not yet appeared in British dictionaries. Comprising 70,000 words&mdash;12,000 of which had never been published before&mdash;the ''American Dictionary'' surpassed the scope and authority of Samuel Johnson’s magisterial ''Dictionary of the English Language'', published in London in 1755.<ref>Joshua Lawrence Eason, “Dictionary-Making in the English Language,” ''Peabody Journal of Education'' 5 (May 1928): 349, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JX6ARZAD view on Zotero]; Joseph W. Reed Jr., “Noah Webster’s Debt to Samuel Johnson,” ''American Speech'' 37 (1962): 95–105, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DI5ACAS9 view on Zotero].</ref> Although British examples predominate, <span id="WebsterAvenue_cite"></span>Webster also referred to the American context for words such as [[avenue]] (“A wide street, as in Washington, Columbia”) ([[#WebsterAvenue|view text]]); differentiated American usage from British in the case of words such as [[meadow]], [[orchard]], [[plantation]], and [[wood]]; <span id="WebsterCataract_cite"></span>and included quotations from American authors who imbued the English language with New World associations, as in the phrase attributed to Washington Irving, “The tremendous [[cataract]]s of America thundering in their <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">solitudes” </del>[''sic''] ([[#WebsterCataract|view text]]). Despite his monumental achievement, Webster made little money from his dictionary and he went deeply into debt in order to finance a revised and expanded second edition, which was published in 1841, two years before his death.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Proceeds from the speller funded Webster’s work on a dictionary through which he intended to promote an American language with its own idioms, pronunciation, and style. In 1806 Webster published ''A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language'', the first truly American dictionary. He immediately began work on a more ambitious work, ''An American Dictionary of the English Language'' (1828). His research on word origins necessitated learning twenty-eight languages, including Anglo-Saxon, Aramaic, Russian, and Sanskrit.<ref>Joshua Kendall, ''The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture'' (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2010), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q9UNXXKS view on Zotero].</ref> Webster also documented unique American words that had not yet appeared in British dictionaries. Comprising 70,000 words&mdash;12,000 of which had never been published before&mdash;the ''American Dictionary'' surpassed the scope and authority of Samuel Johnson’s magisterial ''Dictionary of the English Language'', published in London in 1755.<ref>Joshua Lawrence Eason, “Dictionary-Making in the English Language,” ''Peabody Journal of Education'' 5 (May 1928): 349, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JX6ARZAD view on Zotero]; Joseph W. Reed Jr., “Noah Webster’s Debt to Samuel Johnson,” ''American Speech'' 37 (1962): 95–105, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DI5ACAS9 view on Zotero].</ref> Although British examples predominate, <span id="WebsterAvenue_cite"></span>Webster also referred to the American context for words such as [[avenue]] (“A wide street, as in Washington, Columbia”) ([[#WebsterAvenue|view text]]); differentiated American usage from British in the case of words such as [[meadow]], [[orchard]], [[plantation]], and [[wood]]; <span id="WebsterCataract_cite"></span>and included quotations from American authors who imbued the English language with New World associations, as in the phrase attributed to Washington Irving, “The tremendous [[cataract]]s of America thundering in their <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">solitudes </ins>[''sic'']<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">” </ins>([[#WebsterCataract|view text]]). Despite his monumental achievement, Webster made little money from his dictionary and he went deeply into debt in order to finance a revised and expanded second edition, which was published in 1841, two years before his death.</div></td></tr>
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