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'''Andrew Dickson White''' (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was an American historian and educator, who was the cofounder of [[Organization:Cornell University|Cornell University]] and served as its first president for nearly two decades. He was known for expanding the scope of college curricula.<ref>{{cite news |author= |quote=Dr. Andrew D. White, first President of Cornell University, former Ambassador to Germany, and Minister to Russia, died at 8:30 o'clock this morning after a short illness following a stroke of paralysis.  |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B04EEDC113BEE3ABC4D53DFB7678383609EDE |title=Dr. A.D. White Dies. A Cornell Founder. President of University for 18 Years Dies in Ithaca Close to His 86th Birthday. Twice Envoy to Germany. Educator Who Sought to Broaden Scope of Colleges Had Also Served as Minister to Russia. Fought for Reform in Colleges. Spent Many Years in Education  |work={{wipe|The New York Times}} |date=November 5, 1918 |accessdate=March 31, 2010 }}</ref> A politician, he had served as state senator in New York. He was later appointed as a US diplomat to Germany and Russia, among other responsibilities.

==Family and personal life==
He was born on November 7, 1832, in Homer, New York, to Clara (née Dickson) and Horace White.<ref name="politicalgraveyard">{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/13559.html|publisher='The Political Graveyard'|title='The White Family'|accessdate=May 15, 2009}}</ref> Clara was the daughter of Andrew Dickson, a New York State Assemblyman in 1832 and his wife; and Horace was the son of Asa White, a farmer from {{wipe|Massachusetts}}, and his wife. Their once-successful farm was ruined by a fire when Horace was 13.<ref name="politicalgraveyard"/>
[[File:Saint Paul's Cathedral inscription, Syracuse, New York.jpg|thumb|right|Andrew and his brother dedicated the spire of St. Paul's Cathedral in Syracuse to their mother.]]
Despite little formal education and struggles with poverty after his family lost its farm, Horace White became a businessman and wealthy merchant. In 1839 he opened what became a successful bank in Syracuse.<ref name="rootsweb">{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyononda/FAMILY/WHITE.HTM |publisher='Rootsweb' |title='ANDREW DICKSON WHITE, M.A., LL.D., L.H.D.' |accessdate=May 15, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620214234/http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyononda/FAMILY/WHITE.HTM |archivedate=June 20, 2008 }}</ref> Horace and Clara White had two children: Andrew Dickson and his brother. Andrew was baptized in 1835 at the Calvary Episcopal Church on the town green in Homer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.homerny.org/townhallhistory.pdf |publisher=Village of Homer, New York |title=Homer, N.Y.: A Town and its Hall |accessdate=May 15, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107173734/http://www.homerny.org/townhallhistory.pdf |archivedate=January 7, 2010}}</ref>

He married twice. His first marriage, on September 27, 1857, was to Mary Amanda Outwater (February 10, 1836 – June 8, 1887), daughter of Peter Outwater and Lucia M. Phillips of Syracuse. Mary's maternal grandmother Amanda Danforth, daughter of Asa Danforth, Jr. and wife of Elijah Phillips, Jr., was the first white child born in what would become Onondaga County, New York. Her great-grandfathers included General Asa Danforth, an early pioneer of upstate New York and leader of the State Militia, as well as Elijah Philips, Sr., who had responded to the alarm to Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1775 and later served as the High Sheriff of Onondaga County.<ref name="CAM Obit" />

Andrew and Mary had three children together: Frederick Davies White, who committed [[Medicine:Suicide|suicide]] in his forties in 1901 after a prolonged series of illnesses; Clara (White) Newbury, who died before her father; and Ruth (White) Ferry. After his wife died in 1887,<ref name="nyt-1887jun09">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1887/06/09/archives/mrs-ad-white-falls-dead.html?pagewanted=all |title=Mrs. A.D. White Falls Dead |newspaper={{wipe|The New York Times}} |date=June 9, 1887 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |page=4 |subscription=yes}}</ref> White went on a lecture tour and traveled in Europe with his close friend, Daniel Willard Fiske, librarian at Cornell.<ref name="CAM Obit" />

After three years as a widower, in 1890, White married Helen Magill, the daughter of Edward Magill, [[Organization:Swarthmore College|Swarthmore College]]'s second president. She was the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. Like her husband, Helen was a social scientist and educator; the two met at a conference where she was presenting a paper. Together, Helen and Andrew had one daughter, Karin White.<ref name="CAM Obit" />

One of Andrew's cousins was Edwin White, who became an artist of the Luminism/Hudson River schools.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=takoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA468&lpg=RA1-PA468&dq=The+Compact+of+the+%27Mayflower+Edwin+white+museum&source=web&ots=XDdrkcJ970&sig=oYFB6AHT_qZT5BOSddmxsn4LaFs&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PRA1-PA468,M1 ''Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography'' edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske] (D. Appleton and Company, 1889), pp. 467-8. ''With etching image of ADWhite, and signature reproduction.''</ref> His nephew was Horace White, governor of New York.

==Education==
Beginning in the fall of 1849, White enrolled as an undergraduate at Geneva College (known today as [[Organization:Hobart and William Smith Colleges|Hobart and William Smith Colleges]]) at the insistence of his father.<ref name="droppingout">White (1904), pg. 54</ref> He was inducted as a member of Sigma Phi. In his autobiography, he recalled that he had felt that his time at Geneva was "wasted" by being at the small Episcopalian school, instead of at "one of the larger New England universities".<ref name="droppingout" />  Rather than continue "wasting" his time, White dropped out in 1850.  After a period of estrangement, White persuaded his father to let him transfer to Yale College.

[[File:Andrew Dickson White at Yale.jpg|thumb|150px|left|White as a junior or senior at Yale, wearing his Skull and Bones pin.]]
At Yale, White was a classmate of [[Biography:Daniel Coit Gilman|Daniel Coit Gilman]], who would later serve as the first president of [[Organization:Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University]]. The two were members of the Skull and Bones<ref>*{{cite web|url=http://area907.info/911/index.php?Bonesmen2 |title=Bonesmen 1833-1899|publisher=Fleshing Out Skull and Bones}}</ref> secret society and would remain close friends. They traveled together in Europe after graduation and served together on the Venezuela Boundary Commission (1895–96). His roommate was Thomas Frederick Davies, Sr., who later became the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, 1889–1905.<ref name="rootsweb" />  Other members of White's graduating year included Edmund Clarence Stedman, the poet and essayist; Wayne MacVeagh, Attorney General of the United States and U.S. Ambassador to Italy; and Hiram Bingham II, the missionary, collectively comprising the so-called "famous class of '53."<ref name=Maine>{{cite book|title=Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine|author=Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs|year=1909|url=https://books.google.com/?id=3X-4t4qKo-IC&printsec=titlepage|page=1174}}</ref>  According to White, he was deeply influenced in his academic career and life by Professor Noah Porter (later, Yale's president), who personally instructed him in rhetoric and remained a close personal friend until Porter's death.<ref>White (1904), 31</ref>

Alpha Sigma Phi inducted White as a member in 1850 and he served as editor of the fraternity's publication, ''The Tomahawk''.  White remained active in the fraternity for the rest of his life, founding the Cornell chapter and serving as the national president from 1913 to 1915.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alphasig-rockledge.com/history.php|title=ΑΣΦ - Rockledge|author=ΑΣΦ|accessdate=May 22, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509155651/http://www.alphasig-rockledge.com/history.php|archivedate=May 9, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref>  He also served as an editor of ''The Lit.,'' known today as the ''Yale Literary Magazine.'' He belonged to Linonia, a literary and debating society.<ref name="rootsweb" />  As a junior, White won the Yale literary prize for the best essay, writing on the topic "The Greater Distinctions in Statesmanship;" this was a surprise as traditionally a senior was chosen for the winning essay.<ref name="rootsweb" /><ref>White (1904), pg. 32</ref>  Also as a junior, White joined the junior society Psi Upsilon.  In his senior year, White won the Clark Prize for English disputation and the De Forest prize for public oratory, speaking on the topic "The Diplomatic History of Modern Times".  Valued at $100, the De Forest prize was then the largest prize of its kind at any educational institution, American or otherwise.<ref>"Yale College--The De Forest Prize.", ''The New York Times'', 18 June 1853, [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1853/06/18/75126916.pdf]</ref> In addition to academic pursuits, White was on the Yale crew team, and competed in the first Harvard–Yale Regatta in 1852.<ref>White (1904), pg. 33-4</ref>

After graduation, White traveled and studied in Europe with his classmate Daniel Coit Gilman. Between 1853 and 1854, he studied at the Sorbonne, the Collège de France, and the University of Berlin. He also served as the translator for Thomas H. Seymour, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, following Gilman's term as translator, although he had not studied [[Social:French language|French]] (the language of diplomacy and the Russian royal court) prior to his studies in Europe.  After he returned the United States, White enrolled at Yale to earn an M.A. in History and be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 1856.<ref name="NYbio">{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of biography of New York|author=Charles Elliott Fitch|url=https://books.google.com/?id=qSoEAAAAYAAJ|publisher=American Historical Society|year=1916|pages=321–326}}</ref>

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'''Earned degrees'''
* [[Organization:Yale University|Yale]] - A.B. (1853)
* [[Organization:Yale University|Yale]] - M.A. History (1856)

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==Early professional life==
In October 1858, White accepted a position as a Professor of History and English literature at the [[Organization:University of Michigan|University of Michigan]], where he remained on faculty until 1863.<ref name="Finch, pg. 7">Finch, pg. 7</ref>  White made his lasting mark on the grounds of the university by enrolling students to plant [[Biology:Elm|elm]]s along the walkways on The Diag.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2008/04/trees.php |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-07-31 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100606173105/http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2008/04/trees.php |archivedate=June 6, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Between 1862 and 1863, he traveled to Europe to lobby France and England to assist the United States in the American Civil War or at least not come to the aid of the Confederate States.<ref name="Finch, pg. 7"/>

[[File:AD White 1865.jpg|150px|left|thumb|White, in 1865, when he co-founded Cornell University with Ezra Cornell.]]
In 1863, White returned to reside in Syracuse for business reasons. In November, he was elected to the New York State Senate, running on the Union Party ticket.<ref>{{cite news | title = The State. Miscellaneous Returns | work={{wipe|The New York Times}}| date = November 4, 1863| url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1863/11/04/79179933.pdf  | accessdate =May 27, 2009 | format=PDF}}</ref>  In the senate, White met fellow upstate senator Ezra Cornell, a self-taught Quaker farmer from Ithaca who had made a modest fortune in the telegraph industry.<ref name="CAM Obit" /> Around this time, the senators were called on to decide how best to use the higher education funding provided by the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, which allocated timberland in the Midwest, which states could sell as they saw fit. Through effective management by Cornell, New York generated about $2.5 million (equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US|2500000|1863|r=-6}}}} in today dollars{{Inflation-fn|US}}) from its allotted scrip, a greater yield per acre than any state, except, perhaps, {{wipe|California}}.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Individual, Society, and Education|author=Clarence J. Karier|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=1986|page=68}}</ref>  The senators initially wanted to divvy the funds among the numerous small state colleges of their districts.  White fervently argued that the money would be more effectively used if it endowed only one university. Ezra Cornell agreed, telling White, "I have about half a million dollars more than my family will need: what is the best thing I can do with it for the State?" To which, White immediately replied "The best thing you can do with it is to establish or strengthen some institution of higher learning".<ref name="CAM Obit" /> The two thus combined their efforts to form a new university.

White pressed for the university to be located on the hill in Syracuse (the current location of [[Organization:Syracuse University|Syracuse University]]) due to the city's transportation hub. This could help attract faculty, students, and other persons of note. However, as a young carpenter working in Syracuse, Cornell had been robbed of his wages,<ref>Goldwin Smith, ''Reminiscences'' (New York, 1911), p.371;quoted in Morris Bishop(1962), p.11, ''A History of Cornell.'' Cornell University Press</ref> and insisted that the university be located in his hometown of Ithaca; he proposed to donate land on his large farm on East Hill, overlooking the town and Cayuga Lake.  White convinced Cornell to give his name to the university "in accordance with [the] time-honored American usage" of naming universities after their largest initial benefactors.<ref name="CAM Obit" />  On February 7, 1865, White introduced a bill "to establish the Cornell University" and, on April 27, 1865, after months of debate, Governor Reuben E. Fenton signed into law the bill endowing Cornell University as the state's [[Organization:List of land-grant universities|land-grant institution]].

White became the school's first president and served as a professor in the Department of History.  He commissioned Cornell's first architecture student, William Henry Miller, to build his president's mansion on campus.

White was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1884.<ref>[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistw American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]</ref>

In 1891, Leland and Jane Stanford asked White to serve as the first president of [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]], which they had founded in Palo Alto, California.  Although he refused, he recommended his former student David Starr Jordan.

==Diplomatic career and later work==
[[File:AD White Russia.jpg|left|White's official portrait as ambassador to Russia (1892-94)|thumb|150px]]
While at Cornell, in 1871, he took leave to serve as a Commissioner to Santo Domingo, along with Benjamin Wade and Samuel Howe, at the request of President Grant in order to determine the feasibility of a United States annexation of the Dominican Republic. Their report ([https://books.google.com/books?id=mUd9AAAAMAAJ available here]) supported the annexation, but Grant was unable to gain sufficient political support to take further action.

Later, White was appointed as the US Ambassador to Germany (1879–1881). After returning to the United States, he was elected as the first president of the American Historical Association (1884–1886). Upstate New York Republicans nominated him for governor in 1876 and for Congress in 1886, but he did not win either primary.

Following his resignation in 1885 as Cornell's president, White served as Minister to Russia (1892–1894), President of the American delegation to The Hague Peace Conference (1899), and again as Ambassador to Germany (1897–1902).<ref>http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/presidents/view_item.php?sec=3&sub=8 Retrieved January 30, 2008.</ref> In 1904, White published his ''Autobiography'', which he had written during a period of time relaxing in Italy following his retirement from the Department of State with the change in administrations. Cornell's third president, Jacob Gould Schurman, was appointed as ambassador to Germany from 1925 to 1929.

At the onset of [[Social:World War I|World War I]], White supported the German cause within Europe, because he had strong professional and emotional ties to Germany. By the summer of 1915, he retreated from this position, refraining from offering any support, either publicly or privately.<ref>Finch, pg. 65</ref> In the fall of 1916, President [[Biography:Woodrow Wilson|Woodrow Wilson]] appointed White to a peace commission to prepare a treaty with China.<ref name="Finch, pg. 66">Finch, pg. 66</ref> As of December 1916, White had reduced some of his obligations, resigning from the Smithsonian Board of Regents and the trustees of the [[Organization:Carnegie Institution for Science|Carnegie Institution]].<ref name="Finch, pg. 66"/>

==Bibliophile==
[[File:ADWhiteReadingRoom, CornellUniversity.jpg|thumb|The A.D. White Reading Room holds part of White's book collection today]]
Over the course of his career, White amassed a sizable book collection. His library was probably best known for its extensive section on architecture; it was then the largest architecture library in the United States. He donated all 4000 books to the Cornell University Library for the purpose of teaching architecture as well as the remainder of his 30,000-book collection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arlisna.org/pubs/onlinepubs/colldevpol/cornell.html|publisher=Cornell University Fine Arts Library|title=Architecture Clientele|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707050306/http://www.arlisna.org/pubs/onlinepubs/colldevpol/cornell.html|archivedate=July 7, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 1879, White enlisted [[Biography:George Lincoln Burr|George Lincoln Burr]], a former undergraduate assistant for one of his seminars, to manage the rare books collection. Though Burr would later hold other positions at the university, such as Professor of History, he remained White's collaborator and head of this collection until 1922 by traveling over Europe, locating and amassing books that White wanted. In particular, he built the collections on the Reformation, [[Social:Witchcraft|witchcraft]], and the {{wipe|French Revolution}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libecast.library.cornell.edu/uris/white.html|title=Andrew Dickson White Library|publisher=Cornell University Library}}</ref> Today, White's collection is housed primarily in the Cornell Archives and in the Andrew Dickson White Reading Room (formally known as the "President White Library of History and Political Science") at Uris Library on the Ithaca Campus. The A.D. White Reading Room was designed by William Henry Miller, who had also designed White's mansion on campus.

While serving in Russia, White made the acquaintance of author [[Biography:Leo Tolstoy|Leo Tolstoy]].  Tolstoy's fascination with Mormonism sparked a similar interest in White, who had previously regarded the Latter-Day Saints (LDS) as a dangerous cult. Upon his return to the United States, White took advantage of Cornell's proximity to the religion's birthplace in Palmyra to amass a collection of LDS memorabilia (including many original copies of the [[Religion:Book of Mormon|Book of Mormon]]); it is unmatched by any other institution outside the church itself and its flagship [[Organization:Brigham Young University|Brigham Young University]].

==Death==
[[File:AD White Sarcophagus Cropped.JPG|right|thumb|200px|White's sarcophagus features symbols of important aspects of his life, including crests of nations where he had been an ambassador, and icons of universities where he had studied]]
On October 26, 1918, White suffered a slight paralytic stroke following a severe illness of several days.<ref name="CAM Obit">{{cite book|title=Andrew Dickson White|publisher=Cornell Alumni Magazine|url=http://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/3536/34/021_07.pdf| date=November–December 1918|accessdate=May 20, 2009}}</ref>  On the morning of Monday, November 4, White died at home in Ithaca.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cornell.edu/president/history_bio_white.cfm|title=Cornell University-Office of the President-Andrew Dickson White|publisher=Cornell University Office of the President|accessdate=May 20, 2009}}</ref>  Three days later, on November 7, on what would have been White's 86th birthday, White was interred at Sage Chapel on the Cornell campus.  The chapel was filled to capacity by faculty, trustees, and other well-wishers.<ref>{{cite book|title=26th Annual Report of the President|author=Jacob Gould Schurman|publisher=Cornell University|year=1918|page=5|url=https://books.google.com/?id=MWfOAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>

White's body resides in a sarcophagus in the Memorial Room with those of other persons deemed influential in the founding and early years of the university, including co-founder Ezra Cornell and benefactor Jennie McGraw-Fiske.  His marble sarcophagus was designed in the popular Art Nouveau style. If features crests of countries and institutions that played important roles in White's life.  For example, the adjacent picture shows the crests of the two countries where White was an ambassador; the coat of arms of Imperial Germany is on left and Saint George, a variation on the coat of arms of Moscow, representing Russia, is on the right.

The sarcophagus was completed in 1926 by sculptor Lee Oskar Lawrie (1877–1963), who also created sculptures adorning Myron Taylor Hall at Cornell.  Lawrie is perhaps best known for his Atlas statue at Rockefeller Center in New York City.<ref>Gregory Paul Harm, Cited from a page from the Lee Lawrie Archives, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.</ref>

In his will, White left $500,000 (over $7 million in 2008 dollars) to Cornell University.  White had already donated considerable sums to Cornell earlier in his life.

==Conflict thesis==
At the time of Cornell's founding, White announced that it would be "an asylum for ''Science''&mdash;where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion."<ref>Lindberg and Numbers 1986, pp. 2&ndash;3</ref> Until then, most of America's private universities had been founded as religious institutions and generally were focused on the liberal arts and religious training.

In 1869, White gave a lecture on "The Battle-Fields of Science", arguing that history showed the negative outcomes resulting from any attempt on the part of [[Religion:Religion|religion]] to interfere with the progress of [[Science|science]]. Over the next 30 years, he refined his analysis, expanding his case studies to include nearly every field of science over the entire history of Christianity but also narrowing his target from "religion" through "ecclesiasticism" to "dogmatic theology."

The final result was the two-volume ''A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom'' (1896) in which he asserted the conflict thesis of science with dogmatic theology. Initially less popular than [[Biography:John William Draper|John William Draper]]'s ''History of the Conflict between Religion and Science'' (1874), White's book became an extremely influential text on the [[Religion:Relationship between religion and science|relationship between religion and science]]. In it, he argued that "the great majority of the early fathers of the Church, and especially Lactantius, had sought to crush it beneath the utterances attributed to Isaiah, David, and St. Paul."<ref>[http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/andrew_white/Chapter2.html#I]</ref> White's conflict thesis has been widely disputed among contemporary historians of science.<ref>Quotation: "The conflict thesis, at least in its simple form, is now widely perceived as a wholly inadequate intellectual framework within which to construct a sensible and realistic historiography of Western science". (p. 7), Colin A. Russell "The Conflict Thesis", ''Science & Religion: A Historical Introduction'', Gary Ferngren, ed., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. {{ISBN|0-8018-7038-0}}".</ref><ref name=Shapin1996>Quotation: "In the late Victorian period it was common to write about the ‘warfare between science and religion’ and to presume that the two bodies of culture must always have been in conflict. However, it is a very long time since these attitudes have been held by historians of science". (p. 195) {{cite book
 | author = Shapin, S.
 | year = 1996
 | title = The Scientific Revolution
 | publisher = University of Chicago Press Chicago, Ill.
 | isbn =
 }}</ref><ref name=Brooke1991>Quotation: "In its traditional forms, the conflict thesis has been largely discredited." (p. 42) {{cite book
 | author = Brooke, J.H.
 | year = 1991
 | title = Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives.
 | publisher = Cambridge University Press
 | isbn =
 }}</ref> The warfare depiction remains a popular view among critics of religion, but not the general public.<ref>". . . while [John] Brooke's view [of a complexity thesis rather than an historical conflict thesis] has gained widespread acceptance among professional historians of science, the traditional view remains strong elsewhere, not least in the popular mind". p. x, ''Science & Religion: A Historical Introduction'', Gary Ferngren, ed., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.  {{ISBN|0-8018-7038-0}}.</ref>

==Cornell University==
{{quote|During my life, which is now extending beyond the allotted span of threescore and ten, I have been engaged after the manner of my countrymen, in many sorts of work, have become interested in many conditions of men have joined in many efforts which I hope have been of use; but, most of all, I have been interested in the founding and maintaining of Cornell University, and by the part I have taken in that, more than by any other work of my life I hope to be judged.
|4=Andrew Dickson White
|5=''The Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White'' (1904)}}

Until at least the mid-20th century, Cornell undergraduates with the surname 'White' were traditionally given the nickname 'Andy,' in reference to White. Notably, E.B. White, author of the world-famous children's book ''Charlotte's Web'', continued to go by the nickname 'Andy' for the rest of his life after his undergraduate years at Cornell.<ref>{{cite web|last=Stephen|first=Charles|title=Review: 'Story of Charlotte's Web' tells of author's love affair with the creatures of the natural world|url=http://journalstar.com/entertainment/arts-and-culture/books/article_f83b6e5c-030f-5e0e-8176-a0567c7fcfbe.html|publisher=Lincoln Journal Star|accessdate=August 12, 2011}}</ref>

==Legacy and honors==
White was awarded numerous honorary degrees: 
* [[Organization:University of Michigan|University of Michigan]] - LL.D. (1867)
* [[Organization:Cornell University|Cornell]] - LL.D. (1886)
* [[Organization:Yale University|Yale]] - LL.D. (1887)
* [[Organization:Columbia University|Columbia]] - L.H.D. (1887)
* University of Jena - Ph.D. (1889)
* St. Andrew's - LL.D. (1902)
* Johns Hopkins - LL.D. (1902)
* Oxford - D.C.L. (October 1902) - in connection with the Bodleian Library tercentenary<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=University intelligence |day_of_week=Wednesday |date=8 October 1902 |page_number=4 |issue=36893| }}</ref>
* [[Organization:Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]] - LL.D. (1906)

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:AD_White_1878.png|1878
Image:AD_White_1881.png|1881
Image:1882 Cornell University faculty.jpg|1882 - Seated right of center with the Cornell faculty
Image:1889_AHA_officers.png|1885 - Seen sitting on the far right with the founding members of the American Historical Association
File:PSM V48 D474 Andrew Dickson White.jpg | 1896 - Featured in ''Popular Science Monthly''
File:Andrew Dickson White. Photographie von J. C. Schaarwächter.png|In Berlin, 1900
Image:Portrait of Andrew Dickson White.jpg|C.1905 - Gelatin silver photograph of White
Image:Signature of Andrew Dickson White.jpg|An undated signature of White
Image:Photo and signature of Andrew Dickson White.jpg|c. about 1905 - Gelatin silver print cabinet card photo and undated signature of Andrew D. White. Possible original photo that was used in the original ''Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White'' book
File:Opening of Goldwin Smith Hall, 1906.jpg|1906 - White and Goldwin Smith at the opening of Goldwin Smith Hall. A statue of White was later installed in front of the building.
Image:Autographed copy of "Autobiography of Andrew D.White" Volume 1.jpg|An autographed copy of ''Autobiography of Andrew D. White Volume 1'', dated June 23, 1916
Image:AD White 1910.jpg|White, 1910
Image:Andrew Dickson White 1915.jpg|1915 - Featured in ''{{wipe|The New York Times}}''
Image:AD White undated.jpg|An undated photograph of White, published c.1918 in the ''Cornell Alumni Magazine'' after his death 
Image:AD White at Goldwin Smith.jpg|c. about 1915 - Standing near his statue on the Cornell campus
Image:AD White statue.jpg|The statue of White on the Cornell Arts Quad by Karl Bitter
Image:HouseofAndrewDickinsonWhite.jpg|White's mansion on the Cornell campus, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
</gallery>

==See also==
* Andrew Dickson White House

==Bibliography==

===References===
{{Reflist|30em}}

===Sources===
*{{Cite book|last=White|first=Andrew Dickson|title=Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White|publisher=The Century co.|year=1904}}
*{{cite book|last=Bishop|first=Morris|title=A History of Cornell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jUu9pDRhWjkC|year=1962|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-0036-0}}
*{{cite book|title=The Andrew Dickson White Papers at Cornell University, 1846-1919|editor=Henry Finch|year=1970|publisher=Cornell University Archives}}

===Selected works by White===
* ''Outlines of a Course of Lectures on History'' (1861).
* ''Syllabus of Lectures on Modern History'' (1876).
* ''A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom'', 2 vols. (1896), online at ''Gutenberg'' [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/505 text file].
* ''Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason'' (1910).
* ''The Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White'' (1911), online at ''Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White'': [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1340 Vol. 1], [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1370 Vol. 2]
* ''[https://mises.org/books/inflationinfrance.pdf Fiat Money Inflation in France]'' (1912), [http://www.libertarianpress.com/fiatmoneyinflation/ e-text]

===Works about White===
*{{cite book|last=Altschuler|first=Glenn C.|title=Andrew D. White &mdash; Educator, Historian, Diplomat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZx3AAAAMAAJ|date=March 1979|publisher=Cornell University Press|location=Ithaca, New York|isbn=978-0-8014-1156-4}}
*{{cite book|last=Drechsler|first=Wolfgang J. M.|title=Andrew D. White in Deutschland: der Vertreter der USA in Berlin, 1879&ndash;1881 und 1887&ndash;1902 (Andrew D. White in Germany. The Representative of the United States in Berlin, 1879&ndash;1881 and 1897&ndash;1902)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ikMAAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=H.-D. Heinz|location=Stuttgart|isbn=978-3-88099-624-3}}
*{{cite book|last1=Lindberg|first1=David C.|last2=Numbers|first2=Ronald L.|editor=Lindberg and Numbers|title=God and nature: historical essays on the encounter between Christianity and science|url=https://books.google.com/?id=hs2edDIGCqEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q|year=1986|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-05692-3|chapter=Introduction}}
*{{cite journal|last=Lindberg|first=David C.|author2=Ronald L. Numbers |year=1987|title=Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science|journal=Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith|volume=39|issue=3|pages=140&ndash;149|oclc=61313836|url=http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1987/PSCF9-87Lindberg.html}}
*{{cite book|last1=Engst|first1=Elaine D.|last2=Dimunation|first2=Mark|title=A Legacy of Ideas: Andrew Dickson White and the Founding of the Cornell University Library|url=http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/5416|series=An exhibition celebrating the Thirty-Seventh Preconference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a Division of the American Library Association|year=1996|publisher=Cornell University Library|location=Ithaca, New York}}

== External links ==
'''Cornell University links'''
*{{cite web
|title =Office of the Presidency: Andrew Dickson White
|work =[[Organization:Cornell University|Cornell University]]
|url =http://www.cornell.edu/president/history_bio_white.cfm
|accessdate=October 5, 2007
}} Brief history of White
*{{cite web
|title = Presidents Exhibition: Andrew Dickson White, Presidency
|work = Cornell University Library
|url = http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/presidents/view_item.php?sec=3&sub=8
|accessdate=October 5, 2007
}}
*{{cite web
|title =Presidents Exhibition: Andrew Dickson White, Inauguration
|work =Cornell University Library
|url =http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/presidents/view_item.php?sec=4&sub=19
|accessdate=October 5, 2007
}}
*{{cite web
|title =Andrew Dickson White Collection of Architectural Photographs
|work = Cornell University Library
|url = http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/misc/4077228
|accessdate=October 5, 2007
}}
*{{cite web
|title =Andrew Dickson White Library
|work = Cornell University Library
|url =http://libecast.library.cornell.edu/uris/white.html
|accessdate=October 5, 2007
}}
*{{cite web
|title =Andrew Dickson White's Book Collection
|work = Cornell University Library
|url = http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/footsteps/exhibition/foundingcollections/foundingcollections_1.html
|accessdate=October 5, 2007
}}
*{{cite web
|title = Andrew Dickson White and the History of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
|work = Cornell University Library
|url =http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Aap-exhibit/AAP1.html
|accessdate=October 5, 2007
| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070820232104/http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Aap-exhibit/AAP1.html| archivedate= August 20, 2007 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}
'''Other links'''
* {{Gutenberg author | id=White,+Andrew+Dickson | name=Andrew Dickson White}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Andrew Dickson White}}
*{{cite web
|title = History of the Warfare of Science with Theology
|work = infidels.org
|url = http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/andrew_white/Andrew_White.html
|accessdate=August 15, 2011
| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110720212201/http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/andrew_white/Andrew_White.html| archivedate= July 20, 2011 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}} Book with footnotes, in an easy-to-read format
*{{cite web
|title =Famous People of the Finger Lakes
|work =ilovethefingerlakes.com
|url =http://www.ilovethefingerlakes.com/history/famous-people-cornell.htm
|accessdate=October 5, 2007
| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070928075431/http://www.ilovethefingerlakes.com/history/famous-people-cornell.htm| archivedate= September 28, 2007 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}} History of White [Ezra Cornell, Andrew Dickson White and the Establishment of Cornell University]
*{{cite web
|title =The Mythical Conflict between Science and Religion
|work =bede.org.uk
|url =http://www.bede.org.uk/conflict.htm
|accessdate=October 5, 2007
| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20071015093058/http://bede.org.uk/conflict.htm| archivedate= October 15, 2007 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}} Addresses White's scholarship.
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/collections/72157616674562400/ A.D. White's Architectural Photos] A collection within [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/ the Flickr stream of Cornell University Library]. Specifically includes A.D. White's photographs of European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern architecture.
*{{cite web
 |title       = U-M Heritage: Professor White's Trees
 |work        = Michigan Today
 |url         = http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2008/04/trees.php
 |accessdate  = July 31, 2010
 |deadurl     = yes
 |archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100606173105/http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2008/04/trees.php
 |archivedate = June 6, 2010
 |df          = mdy-all
}} Essay and slideshow about White's lasting mark on the [[Organization:University of Michigan|University of Michigan]]'s campus.

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