William Cunningham (1849-1919) was appointed lecturer on economic history at Harvard September 27, 1898 in order to cover economic history for Professor Ashley who was on leave during the second semester of the 1898-99 academic year.
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During the second half year of 1898-99, the place of Professor Ashley, who is absent on leave, is taken by Dr. Wm. Cunningham, of Trinity College (Cambridge, England). Dr. Cunningham and Professor Ashley are easily the leaders among English-speaking scholars on their subject, economic history; and the Department has cordially welcomed the arrangement by which the scholar from the Cambridge of England fills the place, for the time being, of the scholar of the American Cambridge. Dr. Cunningham gives two courses in the current half year, — one on Western Civilization in its Economic Aspects, Mediaeval and Modern, the other on the Industrial Revolution in England.
Source: F. W. Taussig’s report on the activities of the economics department in 1898-99 in The Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, vol. 7 (1898-99), p. 427.
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Course Announcement
82 hf. Western Civilization in its Economic Aspects. (Mediaeval and Modern.) Half-course (second half-year). Mon., Wed., and (at the pleasure of the instructor) Fri., at 12.Dr. Cunningham (Trinity College, Cambridge, England).
Source: Harvard University, Announcement of the Courses of Instruction Provided by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the Academic Year 1898-1899.Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1898, p. 41.
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Course Enrollment
[Economics] 82 hf. Dr. Cunnningham.— Western Civilization, mediaeval and modern, in its Economic Aspects. Lectures (3 hours). 4 reports.
Total 105: 13 Graduates, 41 Seniors, 15 Juniors, 23 Sophomores, 1 Freshman, 12 Others
Source: Harvard University. Annual Report of the President of Harvard College, 1898-99, p. 72.
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ECONOMICS 8.
WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
For Reading: —
Andrews, C. M. Old English Manor, p. 202 to end.
M. Dormer Harris. Life in an Old English Town.
H. Beazley. Prince Henry the Navigator;
Discourse of the Common Weal of this Realm of England, edited by E. Lamond.
Thorold Rogers. Holland.
For Consultation: —
Duke of Argyll. Unseen Foundations of Society.
Maitland, S. R. The Dark Ages.
Montalembert. Monks of the West, II.
Levasseur, E. Histoire des Class ouvrières en France jusqu’a la Révolution [Volume I (1859); Volume II (1859);
Walter of Henley’s Husbandry, edited by E. Lamond.
Pigeonneau. Histoire du Commerce de la France. [Volume I; Volume II]
von Inama-Sternegg. Deutsche Wirtschaftsgeschichte. [Volume 1 ; Volume 2]
Heyd, W. Geschichte des Levantehandels. [Volume 1 ; Volume 2]
[de] Mas Latrie. Relations et Commerce de l’Afrique Septentrionale.
Ehrenberg, R. Das Zeitalter der Fugger.[Volume 1 ; Volume 2]
Gottlob, A. Aus der Camera.
S. Thomas Aquinas. De regimine Principum.
Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003.Box 1, Folder “Economics 1898-1899”.
Image Source: Trinity College Chapel website.