Author:John Fiske

John Fiske
(1842–1901)

John Fiske

Works

• Myths and Myth Makers (1872) (external scan)
• Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (1874) (external scan)
• The Unseen World (1876) (external scan)
• Darwinism and Other Essays (1879; revised and enlarged, 1885) (external scan)
• Excursions of an Evolutionist (1883) (external scan)
• The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of his Origin (1884) (external scan)
• The Idea of God as Affected by modern Knowledge (1885) (external scan)
• Origin of Evil (1899)
• The Discovery of America (1892), Vol I & II
• A Century of Science and Other Essays (1899) (external scan)
• Through Nature to God (1899) (external scan)
• The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War (1900)
• Life Everlasting (the Ingersoll Lecture, 1901) (external scan)
• The meaning of infancy (1909) (external scan)
• The historical writings of John Fiske (1902) (external scan)
• Essays, historical and literary (1907) (external scan)
• The Critical Period of American History

• The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914, edited by James Grant Wilson)
  • John Adams
  • James Madison
  • John Quincy Adams
  • Andrew Jackson
  • John Tyler
• Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (6 vols., 1886–1889; co-editor with James Grant Wilson)
  • "Arnold, Benedict (soldier)," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
  • "Cornwallis, Charles, Earl," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
  • "Lee, Charles," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1892)
  • "Putnam, Israel," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
  • "Webster, Ebenezer," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1889) (mostly about son Daniel)
• "Grant, Ulysses Simpson," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Parkman, Francis," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "Agassiz and Darwinism" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (October 1873)
• "Edward Livingston Youmans" in Popular Science Monthly, 37 (May 1890)
• "The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Scope and Influence" in Popular Science Monthly, 39 (September 1891)

Works about Fiske

• "Fiske, John (author)," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Fiske, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Fiske, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• John Fiske's Change of Attitude on the Whitman Legend, Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1912.
• "Fiske, John," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• “Fiske, Professor John” by Joseph McCabe in A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers, 1945.
• Death notice in The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 5, issue 721 (July 1901), p. 279 (section 'Editorial Gleanings')