Donald Harnish Fleming Explained

Donald Harnish Fleming (August 7, 1923, Hagerstown, Maryland^[1] June 16, 2008, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University. He specialized in American and European intellectual history and the history of science and medicine.^{[2] [3]}

Biography

Fleming graduated from Johns Hopkins University with AB in 1943 and from Harvard University with AM in 1944 and PhD in 1947.^[1] From 1947 to 1959 he was a faculty member of Brown University's history department.^[2] After spending the academic year 1958–1959 as a professor at Yale University, he joined in 1959 the faculty of Harvard University's history department.^[3] He remained a professor there until 1999, when he retired as professor emeritus.^[1] He was from 1963 to 1965 the chair of the department and from 1973 to 1980 the director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He was from 1967 to 1986 the co-editor, with Bernard Bailyn, of the journal Perspectives in American History, an annual volume of monographic essays.^[3]

Fleming was a lifelong bachelor. His cremated remains were buried at Harvard Hill in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.^[1]

Awards and honors

• 1948 — Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association
• 1962 — elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[4]
• 1965 — Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1965–1966^[5]

Selected publications

Articles

• 10.1086/349358. Latent Heat and the Invention of the Watt Engine. 1952. Fleming. Donald. Isis. 43. 3–5. 144758218.
• 2. 10.1086/348379. 14353581. Galen on the Motions of the Blood in the Heart and Lungs. 1955. Fleming. Donald. Isis. 46. 143. 14–21. 29583656.
• 2. 10.2307/2708122. 2708122. The Centenary of the Origin of Species. 1959. Fleming. Donald. Journal of the History of Ideas. 20. 3. 437–446.
• 2. 3825547. Fleming. Donald. Charles Darwin, the Anaesthetic Man. Victorian Studies. 4. 3. 219–236. 1961.
• 2. 10.1086/349540. 13893520. The Ends in View of the Preservation of the Private Papers of American Scientists. 1962. Fleming. Donald. Isis. 53. 118–121. 42471676.
• 2. 3349793. Comment on Fox and His Commentators. Fleming. Donald. The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society. 57. 3. 380–384. 1979. 10.2307/3349793. 257201.
• 2. 40970955. Walter B. Cannon and Homeostasis. Fleming. Donald. Social Research. 51. 3. 609–640. 1984. 11616403.
• 2. 25081022. Fleming. Donald. John Leonard Clive. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 102. 164–166. 1990.
• 2. 25081073. Fleming. Donald. Frank Freidel. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 105. 169–171. 1993.

Books

• Book: Fleming, Donald . John William Draper and the Religion of Science . Philadelphia . University of Pennsylvania Press . 1950 . 978-1-5128-0169-9 . 10.9783/9781512801705 . j.ctv5134fn. ^[6]
• Book: 2. Fleming. William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine. The Library of American Biography. Little, Brown and Co.. 1954. ^[7]
• Book: Bailyn, Bernard. Fleming, Donald. Handlin, Oscar. Oscar Handlin. Thernstrom, Stephan. Stephan Thernstrom. Glimpses of the Harvard past. Harvard University Press. 1986. 9780674354432. ^[8]

References

1. Web site: Obituary. Donald Fleming. Boston Globe (legacy.com).
2. News: Intellectual historian Fleming dies at 84. Lavoie, Amy. The Harvard Gazette. 24 July 2008.
3. News: Handlin, Oscar. May, Ernest R.. Turner, James. Bailyn, Bernard. Donald Harnish Fleming, Faculty of Arts and Sciences — Memorial Minute. The Harvard Gazette. 2009-10-29.
4. Web site: Donald Harnish Fleming. Member Directory, American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
5. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Donald Harnish Fleming.
6. 10.2307/1889393. 1889393. Review of John William Draper and the Religion of Science by Donald Fleming. 1951. Lurie. Edward. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 37. 4. 721.
7. 10.1086/ahr/60.4.914. Shryock, Richard H.. Richard Harrison Shryock. Review of William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine by Donald Fleming. The American Historical Review. 1955.
8. Veysey. Laurence. Laurence Veysey. Review of Glimpses of the Harvard Past. History of Education Quarterly. 27. 2. 1987. 272–275. 0018-2680. 10.2307/368477. 368477.