BASSETT, JOHN SPENCER

(1867), an American educator. Graduated from Trinity College, North Carolina, 1888, and from Johns Hopkins in 1894. Became profe or of history in Trinity College, N.C., in 1893 and served to 1906. Since that date profe or of history in Smith College, North amp ton, Ma . Author of Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina; Slavery in the State of North Carolina; The Federalist System (1905); Life of Andrew Jackson (1911); A Short History of the United States (1913); The Plain Story of American History (1915); Our War with Germany (1919); dit or Correspondence of George Bancroft and Jared Sparks (1917); The West over Journal of John A. Selden (1921).