The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell

PHILLIPS, Ulrich Bonnell, educator and economist: b. La Grange, Ga., 4 Nov. 1877. He graduated at the University of Georgia, A.B., 1897; A.M., 1899; and there was Fellow and tutor in history 1897-1900. In 1901 he was awarded the Justin Winsor prize of the American Historical Association. From 1900-02 he was Fellow of Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1902. He was instructor in history 1902-07 and assistant professor 1907-08 at the University of Wisconsin; professor of history and political science, Tulane University 1908-11; and from 1911 professor of American history at the University of Michigan. He also acted as research assistant at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1904-06; was collaborator of the American Bureau of Industrial Research 1905-09; was army camp educational director, Y.M.C.A., Camp Gordon, 1917; and is associate of many learned societies. He came into international prominence as the author of numerous articles on the economics of slavery, on the plantation system and ante-bellum politics. He edited ‘Plantation and Frontier Documents’ (1909); ‘The Correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens and Howell Cobb’ (1913); and is author of ‘Georgia and State Rights’ (1902); ‘History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt’ (1908); ‘Life of Robert Toombs’ (1913); ‘History of American Negro Slavery’ (1918).