Calvin Ira Kephart
American historian
Colonel Calvin Ira Kephart LL.D. (1883–1969) was an American professor of law, genealogist, historian, expert on heraldry and amateur ethnologist.
Career
Kephart by profession was a lawyer but also worked part-time for the Interstate Commerce Commission. Later he taught law as a professor at George Washington University for twelve years. He was also president of the National Genealogical Society (1928–1930, 1938–1940), and helped found the Maryland State Poetry Society. He held six degrees (law, history, and sciences) and specialized in genealogy and heraldry.[1]
He published several pamphlets on genealogical themes, but is best remembered for his lengthy 566-page book on race entitled Races of Mankind: Their Origin and Migration.[2]
Works
Pamphlets
- The Swedes and Swedish Goths, their Origin and Migration (1938)
- Origin of Armorial Insignia in Europe (1938)
- Contributions to American History (1942)
- Origin of the name "Russia" (1944)
- Racial History of the Albanians (1944)
- Origin of the Capertian royal dynasty of France (1951)
- Odin: God of wisdom and founder of Denmark (1963)
Books
- Sanskrit. Its origin, composition and diffusion (1949)
- Origin of Heraldry in Europe (1953)
- Races of Mankind: Their Origin and Migration (1960, 2nd Ed. 1961)
- Concise History of Freemasonry: including Knight Templary (1964)
References
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Historical definitions of race
Scientific racism
- Black
- Bronze
- Brown
- Olive
- Red
- White
- Louis Agassiz
- John Baker
- Erwin Baur
- John Beddoe
- Robert Bennett Bean
- François Bernier
- Renato Biasutti
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
- Franz Boas
- Daniel Garrison Brinton
- Paul Broca
- Alice Mossie Brues
- Halfdan Bryn
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- Charles Caldwell
- Petrus Camper
- Samuel A. Cartwright
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain
- Sonia Mary Cole
- Carleton S. Coon
- Georges Cuvier
- Jan Czekanowski
- Charles Davenport
- Joseph Deniker
- Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt
- Anténor Firmin
- Eugen Fischer
- Francis Galton
- Stanley Marion Garn
- Reginald Ruggles Gates
- George Gliddon
- Arthur de Gobineau
- Madison Grant
- John Grattan
- Hans F. K. Günther
- Ernst Haeckel
- Frederick Ludwig Hoffman
- Earnest Hooton
- Julian Huxley
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Calvin Ira Kephart
- Robert Knox
- Robert E. Kuttner
- Georges Vacher de Lapouge
- Fritz Lenz
- Carl Linnaeus
- Cesare Lombroso
- Bertil Lundman
- Felix von Luschan
- Dominick McCausland
- John Mitchell
- Ashley Montagu
- Lewis H. Morgan
- Samuel George Morton
- Josiah C. Nott
- Karl Pearson
- Roger Pearson
- Oscar Peschel
- Isaac La Peyrère
- Charles Pickering
- Ludwig Hermann Plate
- Alfred Ploetz
- James Cowles Prichard
- Otto Reche
- Gustaf Retzius
- William Z. Ripley
- Alfred Rosenberg
- Benjamin Rush
- Henric Sanielevici
- Heinrich Schmidt
- Ilse Schwidetzky
- Charles Gabriel Seligman
- Giuseppe Sergi
- Samuel Stanhope Smith
- Herbert Spencer
- Morris Steggerda
- Lothrop Stoddard
- William Graham Sumner
- Thomas Griffith Taylor
- Paul Topinard
- John H. Van Evrie
- Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer
- Alexander Winchell
- Ludwig Woltmann
- An Essay upon the Causes of the Different Colours of People
in Different Climates (1744) - The Outline of History of Mankind (1785)
- Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question (1849)
- An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1855)
- The Races of Europe (Ripley, 1899)
- The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899)
- Race Life of the Aryan Peoples (1907)
- Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (1911)
- Castes in India (1916)
- The Passing of the Great Race (1916)
- The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920)
- The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930)
- Annihilation of Caste (1936)
- The Races of Europe (Coon, 1939)
- An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus (1943)
- The Race Question (1950)
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