Calvin Ira Kephart

Colonel Calvin Ira Kephart LL.D. (1883–1969) was an American professor of law, genealogist, historian, expert on heraldry and amateur ethnologist.

Career

Kephart by profession was a lawyer but also worked part-time for the National Genealogical Society (1928–1930, 1938–1940), and helped found the Maryland State Poetry Society. He held six degrees (law, history, and sciences) and specialized in genealogy and heraldry.^[1]

He published several pamphlets on genealogical themes, but is best remembered for his lengthy 566-page book on race entitled Races of Mankind: Their Origin and Migration.^[2]

Works

Pamphlets

The Swedes and Swedish Goths, their Origin and Migration (1938)
Origin of Armorial Insignia in Europe (1938)
Contributions to American History (1942)
Origin of the name "Russia" (1944)
Racial History of the Albanians (1944)
Origin of the Capertian royal dynasty of France (1951)
Odin: God of wisdom and founder of Denmark (1963)

Books

Sanskrit. Its origin, composition and diffusion (1949)
Origin of Heraldry in Europe (1953)
Races of Mankind: Their Origin and Migration (1960, 2nd Ed. 1961)
Concise History of Freemasonry: including Knight Templary (1964)

References

^ Calvin I. Kephart, Genealogical research files
^ Concerning "Races of Mankind - Their Origin and Migration": Reply to a Review, Calvin Kephart, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Aug 1962), p. 836.

Historical race concepts

By color	Black Brown Red White Yellow

Biological anthropology	Australoid Capoid Caucasoid Mongoloid Negroid

Sub-types	Alpine Arabid Armenoid Aryan Atlantid Caspian Dinaric East Baltic Ethiopid Hamitic Dravidian Irano-Afghan Malay Mediterranean Nordic Northcaucasian Pamirid Semitic Turanid

Mixed	Afro-Asian Coloured Eurasian Mestizo Mulatto Pardo Quadroon Zambo Castizo

Writers	Louis Agassiz John Baker Erwin Baur John Beddoe Robert Bennett Bean François Bernier Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Franz Boas Paul Broca Alice Mossie Brues Halfdan Bryn Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Charles Caldwell Petrus Camper Samuel A. Cartwright Houston Stewart Chamberlain Sonia Mary Cole Carleton S. Coon Georges Cuvier Jan Czekanowski Charles Davenport Joseph Deniker Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt Anténor Firmin Eugen Fischer John Fiske Francis Galton Stanley Marion Garn Reginald Ruggles Gates George Gliddon Arthur de Gobineau Madison Grant John Grattan Hans F. K. Günther Ernst Haeckel Frederick Ludwig Hoffman Earnest Hooton Julian Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley Calvin Ira Kephart Robert Knox Robert E. Kuttner Georges Vacher de Lapouge Fritz Lenz Carl Linnaeus Bertil Lundman Felix von Luschan Dominick McCausland John Mitchell Ashley Montagu Lewis H. Morgan Samuel George Morton Josiah C. Nott Karl Pearson Oscar Peschel Isaac La Peyrère Charles Pickering Ludwig Hermann Plate Alfred Ploetz James Cowles Prichard Otto Reche Gustaf Retzius William Z. Ripley Alfred Rosenberg Benjamin Rush Henric Sanielevici Heinrich Schmidt Ilse Schwidetzky Charles Gabriel Seligman Giuseppe Sergi Samuel Stanhope Smith Herbert Spencer Morris Steggerda Lothrop Stoddard William Graham Sumner Thomas Griffith Taylor Paul Topinard John H. Van Evrie Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer Rudolf Virchow Voltaire Alexander Winchell Ludwig Woltmann

Writings	An Essay upon the Causes of the Different Colours of People in Different Climates (1744) The Outline of History of Mankind (1785) Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question (1849) An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1855) The Races of Europe (Ripley) (1899) The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899) Race Life of the Aryan Peoples (1907) Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (1911) The Passing of the Great Race (1916) The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920) The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930) The Races of Europe (Coon) (1939) An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus (1943) The Race Question (1950)

Theories	Eugenics Great chain of being Monogenism Polygenism Pre-Adamite

Related	History of anthropometry Historical definitions of races in India Martial races in the British Indian Army Master race Nazism and race Négritude Race (human classification) Scientific racism Racial hygiene

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