John Clark Ridpath - Author

Author

In 1885 Ridpath left his position at the University to devote himself more to writing. In the later 1890s, he was editor of a magazine called The Arena. He wrote biographies of James G. Blaine, James A. Garfield, William Ewart Gladstone, and James Otis. His popular volumes of history were successful, and reissued many times.

His publications include:

• Academic History of the United States (New York, 1874–5)
• Popular History of the United States of America (1876)
• Grammar-School History (1877)
• Inductive Grammar of the English Language (1878–9)
• Monograph on Alexander Hamilton (1880)
• Life and Work of Garfield (1881)
• Life of James G. Blaine (1893)
• History of Texas (1884)
• A Cyclopaedia of Universal History (3 volumes, 1880–4)
• Ridpath's History of the World (8 volumes, 1894)
  • Ridpath's Universal History (16 volumes, 1895)
• Notable events of the nineteenth century. Great deeds of men and nations and the progress of the world, in a series of short studies (1896)
• "History of the World, Comprising Evolution of Mankind and Story of All Races" (4 volumes, 1897)
• The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature (25 volumes, 1898)
• James Otis, the pre-revolutionist (1898)
• Story of South Africa: an account of the historical transformation of the dark continent by the European powers and the culminating contest between Great Britain and the South African Republic in the Transvaal War (1899)
• History of The United States (10 Volumes, 1905)