Noah Webster Summary

Noah Webster (1758-1843), American lexicographer, remembered now almost solely as the compiler of a continuously successful dictionary, was for half a century among the more influential and most activ... Read more

Noah Webster, educator, lexicographer, lawyer, political essayist, and scholar, best remembered for his "Blue-Backed Speller" (A Grammatical Institute, of the English Language, part 1, 1783) and An Am... Read more

Noah Webster's literary product--wide in its variety, singular in its spirit--spanned more than half a century. First producing textbooks designed to instill patriotism in schoolchildren, later editin... Read more

Thirty years before Ralph Waldo Emerson argued that "Life is our dictionary," Noah Webster mined the U.S. trade, manufacturing, legal system, religious denominations, Indian heritage, and regional dia... Read more