John Spencer Bassett was an American historian. He was a professor at Trinity College, and is best known today for the \"Bassett Affair\" in 1903 when he publicly criticized racism among Southern elites, and called Booker T. Washington, \"all in all the greatest man, save General Lee, born in the South in 100 years.\" Despite widespread outrage, the college trustees refused to accept Bassett's resignation by a vote of 18 to 7. After Trinity, he became a professor of history at Smith College in Massachusetts. and was the executive director of the American Historical Association for many years.
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The Foss Dyke, or Fossdyke, connects the River Trent at Torksey to Lincoln, the county town of Lincolnshire, and may be the oldest canal in England that is still in use. It is usually thought to have been built around AD 120 by the Romans, but there is no consensus among authors. It was refurbished i