Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Herman Vandenburg Ames

Herman Vandenburg Ames

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/November 10, 2018 by Ealdgyth - Talk 16:04, 24 October 2018 (UTC)



Herman Vandenburg Ames (August 7, 1865 – February 7, 1935) was an American legal historian, educator, and documentary preservationist long associated with the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor of United States constitutional history and, for more than two decades, dean of its graduate school. A member of the illustrious Ames family, his 1897 monograph The Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States During the First Century of Its History, was a landmark work in American constitutional studies. Ames traveled to Germany to study that country's methodological approach to history and, using learning gleaned at the universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig, became a leading force in the establishment of government archives throughout the United States. Among Ames' students was Ezra Pound and Ames has been credited with stimulating the poet's lifelong interest in history. Following Ames' death, Pound would write that though they had no more contact than "perhaps two or three letters" in the previous decades, he continued to harbor a "strong, personal affection" towards Ames, citing this as proof of "humanity overcoming all systems of invented partition".
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 * Promoted: 24 August 2018
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 * Support as nominator. Chetsford (talk) 23:30, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment People TFAs are usually run on a significant anniversary, which is why I'm not listing it for October, so you might do consider adding this at Today's featured article/requests/pending for the February date as well . However, there may be other date-linked articles for the same date, so your call. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  14:13, 7 September 2018 (UTC)