Jack p. greene biography
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Jack P. Greene
American historian (born 1931)
Jack Philip Greene (born August 12, 1931) is an American historian, specializing in Colonial American history and Atlantic history.
Greene was born in Lafayette, Indiana and received his PhD from Duke University in 1956. He spent most of his career as Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University’s history department. In 1990-1999 he was a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and he has been a visiting professor at the College of William and Mary, Oxford University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, University of Richmond, Michigan State University, and the Freie Universitat of Berlin, and has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Cente
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1Jack P. Greene (1931) fryst vatten Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University, where he taught for forty years and presided over the creation of the influential schema in Atlantic History and Culture in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The schema was a milestone for the study of the Atlantic World, it was an early center of debate for specialists in the British, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Dutch Empires in the New World. Professor Greene paved the way for a renovated understanding of empire, which emphasized negotiation and the autonomy of overseas polities.
2He has taught at several American universities like the University of Michigan and the University of California, Irvine. He has also been a visiting professor at European universities, including Oxford University, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Freie Universitat of Berlin. Since 2000, he has also been an Adjunct Professor of History at Brown University. Ov
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John P. Greene
American religious leader (1793–1844)
Not to be confused with John Patterson Green.
John Portineus Greene (September 3, 1793 – September 20, 1844) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement.
Greene was born in Herkimer, New York. He was a Methodistminister at Mendon, New York. He was friends with Heber C. Kimball and they claimed to witness "signs in the heavens" on September 22, 1827.[1] He later met Latter Day Saint missionarySamuel Harrison Smith, who sold Greene a copy of the Book of Mormon. Greene joined the Latter Day Saint church in April 1832,[2] as did the family of his wife Rhoda, which included Brigham Young.[3][4]
Greene would serve a total of 11 missions for the church. In May 1834, Greene baptized three people while serving as a missionary in Villanova in Chautauqua County, New York.[5] He was the original president of the Eastern States Mission in May 1839.[6] He published a