Description: (Historian of the modern age, Historian, Biographer)
James Truslow Adams was an American writer and historian who was well-known for bringing the latest scholarship on American history to a wider audience. His three-volume history of New England was highly respected by scholars and he is most remembered for coining the phrase "American Dream" in his 1931 book, The Epic of America. Through his writing and advocacy for American history, Adams made historical scholarship more accessible to the general public.