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Documents for "Historians, U.S.: Biographies":
  • Adams, Brooks 1848-1927, American historian, b. Quincy, Mass.; son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). His theory that civilization rose and fell according to the growth and decline of commerce was first developed in The Law of Civilization and Decay (1895). Adams applied it to his own capitalistic age, of which he was a militant critic, but failed to find the universal law that he persistently sought. His ideas greatly influenced his brother...
  • Adams, Charles Francis 1835-1915, American economist and historian, b. Boston; son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). In the Civil War he fought at Antietam and Gettysburg and was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers. Adams became a railroad expert after the war, writing Chapters of Erie (1871), which exposed the corrupt financing of the Erie RR, and Railroads: Their Origin and Problems (1878). In 1869 he became a member, and from 1872 to 1879 was chairman, of the Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners, the first such board in the nation. Adams was made chairman of the...
  • Adams, Henry 1838-1918, American writer and historian, b. Boston; son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). He was secretary (1861-68) to his father, then U.S. minister to Great Britain. Upon his return to the United States, having already abandoned the law and seeing no opportunity in the...
  • Adams, Herbert Baxter 1850-1901, American historian, b. Shutesbury, near Amherst, Mass. In 1876, the year he received his doctorate at Heidelberg, he became one of the original faculty of Johns Hopkins Univ. There, in...
  • Adams, James Truslow 1878-1949, American historian, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. The Founding of New England (1921), which brought him the Pulitzer Prize in history for 1922, was followed by Revolutionary New England, 1691-1776 (1923) and New England in the Republic, 1776-1850 (1926). Among the best of his many books are Provincial Society, 1690-1763 (Vol. III in the "History of American Life" series, 1927) and The Epic of America (1931), which was widely translated. The Adams Family (1930) and Henry Adams (1933) were books on the famous Massachusetts clan, to which he was not related. Adams spent much of his time in London as a representative of his publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons. He was editor...
  • Alvord, Clarence Walworth 1868-1928, American historian, b. Greenfield, Mass. He became (1901) an instructor in history at the Univ. of Illinois (Ph.D., 1908) and was full professor there (1913-20) and at the Univ. of...
  • Andrews, Charles McLean 1863-1943, American historian, b. Wethersfield, Conn. He was associate professor at Bryn Mawr (1889-1907) and professor at Johns Hopkins Univ. (1907-10) and Yale (1910-31). Andrews, a leader in the...
  • Bailyn, Bernard 1922-, U.S. historian, b. Hartford, Conn. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1953, he taught (1953-93; emeritus 1993-) U.S. colonial history there, becoming full professor in 1961. He won...
  • Bancroft, George 1800-1891, American historian and public official, b. Worcester, Mass. He taught briefly at Harvard and then at the Round Hill School in Northampton, Mass., of which he was a founder and...
  • Bancroft, Hubert Howe 1832-1918, American publisher and historian, b. Granville, Ohio. Bancroft began his career as a bookseller in San Francisco in 1852. Soon he had his own firm, the largest book and stationery...
  • Barker, Eugene Campbell 1874-1956, American historian, b. Walker co., Tex. His distinguished teaching career, begun in 1899, was almost entirely at the Univ. of Texas. An outstanding social historian, Barker wrote about...
  • Barnes, Harry Elmer 1889-1968, American historian and sociologist, b. Auburn, N.Y. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1918 and taught economics, sociology, and history at various institutions of higher learning,...
  • Baron, Salo Wittmayer 1895-1989, Jewish historian and educator, b. Galicia. He was taken as a child to Vienna, where he later studied at the university, earning doctorates in philosophy (1917), political science...
  • Bassett, John Spencer 1867-1928, American historian, b. Tarboro, N.C. He was professor of history at Trinity College (now Duke Univ.) from 1893 to 1906 and then at Smith from 1906 to 1928. Bassett founded (1902) the South...
  • Beard, Charles Austin 1874-1948, American historian, b. near Knightstown, Ind. A year at Oxford as a graduate student gave him an interest in English local government, and after further study at Cornell and Columbia...
  • Becker, Carl Lotus 1873-1945, American historian, b. Blackhawk co., Iowa. He taught history at Dartmouth College (1901-2), at the Univ. of Kansas (1902-16), and at Cornell Univ. (1917-41). After retirement he was...
  • Beer, George Louis 1872-1920, American historian, b. Staten Island, N.Y. He was a tobacco importer for 10 years but also lectured on European history at Columbia from 1893 to 1897. After 1903 he devoted himself to...
  • Belknap, Jeremy 1744-98, American historian, b. Boston. A Congregational minister, he wrote history out of antiquarian interest, but showed great diligence and skill in research and considerable ability in...
  • Bemis, Samuel Flagg 1891-1973, American historian, b. Worcester, Mass. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1916 and taught history at various schools before becoming Farnum professor of diplomatic history at Yale...
  • Beverley, Robert 1673-1722, Virginia colonial historian, author of The History and Present State of Virginia (1705). A substantial planter and colonial official, he wrote his book after finding numerous errors in the manuscript of a book on Virginia written by an Englishman. Vigorous, honest, and not...
  • Bolton, Herbert Eugene 1870-1953, American historian and teacher, b. Wilton, Monroe co., Wis. He taught history at the Univ. of Texas (1901-9), Stanford (1909-11), and the Univ. of California (1911-44) and became an...
  • Botsford, George Willis 1862-1917, American historian, b. West Union, Iowa. After some years (1895-1901) at Harvard, he taught (1901-17) ancient history at Columbia. An outstanding authority on ancient history, he wrote...
  • Bowers, Claude Gernade 1878-1958, American journalist, historian, and diplomat, b. Hamilton co., Ind. After serving as editor of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (1917-23), Bowers, as editorial writer on the New York World (1923-31) and political columnist on the New York Journal (1931-33), was an influential spokesman for the Democratic party. Ambassador to Spain (1933-39), Bowers remained in Madrid throughout the Spanish civil war and tried to get the Roosevelt...
  • Brinton, Crane (Clarence Crane Brinton), 1898-1968, American historian, b. Winsted, Conn. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford in 1923 and began teaching at Harvard the same year, becoming full professor in 1942. He...
  • Byrd, William 1674-1744, American colonial writer, planter, and government official; son of William Byrd (1652-1704). After being educated in England, he became active in the politics of colonial America. He served as member of the House of Burgesses, as receiver-general of Virginia, as Virginia...
  • Carman, Harry James 1884-1964, American historian and educator, b. Greenfield, Saratoga co., N.Y. He was a elementary-school teacher and a high-school principal before becoming an instructor and then an assistant...
  • Catton, Bruce 1899-1978, American historian, b. Petoskey, Mich. He studied at Oberlin College and then entered upon a varied career as a journalist (1926-42) and public official (1942-52). His service with the...
  • Channing, Edward 1856-1931, American historian, b. Dorchester, Mass.; son of William Ellery Channing (1818-1901). He was a prominent teacher at Harvard from 1883 until his retirement in 1929, holding a professor's...
  • Commager, Henry Steele 1902-98, American historian, b. Pittsburgh, Pa. He received his Ph.D. from the Univ. of Chicago in 1928 and taught history at New York Univ. (1926-38), Columbia (1938-56), and Amherst (1956-94)...
  • Craven, Avery Odelle 1886-1980, American historian, b. Randolph co., N.C.; Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago, 1923. He taught at several colleges in the Midwest before returning (1928) to Chicago and becoming (1929) professor of...
  • Dennett, Tyler 1883-1949, American historian and educator, b. Spencer, Wis. Dennett was lecturer in American history at Johns Hopkins Univ. (1923-24) and at Columbia (1927-28), chief of the division of...
  • Dodd, William Edward 1869-1940, American historian and diplomat, b. Clayton, N.C. He was professor of history at Randolph-Macon College (1900-1908) and at the Univ. of Chicago (1908-33). From June, 1933, to Dec., 1937,...
  • Donald, David Herbert 1920-, American historian, b. Goodman, Miss. After receiving his Ph.D. from the Univ. of Illinois in 1946, he taught at Columbia (1947-49; 1951-59), Smith (1949-51), Princeton (1959-62), Johns...
  • Draper, Lyman Copeland 1815-91, American historical collector and librarian, b. Erie co., N.Y. He spent years traveling through an area ranging from New York to Mississippi, gathering the stories of old pioneers and...
  • Dunning, William Archibald 1857-1922, American historian, b. Plainfield, N.J., grad. Columbia (B.A., 1881; Ph. D., 1885). After studying in Berlin, he returned (1886) to spend a lifetime at Columbia, becoming the first...
  • Durant, William James 1885-1981, American historian and essayist, b. North Adams, Mass. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1917 and published his doctoral dissertation, Philosophy and the Social Problem, in the same...
  • Fay, Sidney Bradshaw 1876-1967, American historian, b. Washington, D.C. Fay, professor of history at Dartmouth College (1902-14), Smith (1914-29), and Harvard (1929-46), earned his name as an authority on European...
  • Fish, Carl Russell 1876-1932, American historian, b. Central Falls, R.I. From 1900 to his death he taught history at the Univ. of Wisconsin. Fish considered the Univ. of Wisconsin the "most democratic institution in...
  • Fiske, John 1842-1901, American philosopher and historian, b. Hartford, Conn. Born Edmund Fisk Green, he changed his name in 1855 to John Fisk, adding the final e in 1860. He opened a law practice in Boston but soon turned to writing. A wide reader, he had been an enthusiastic follower of Herbert Spencer while in college, and the first part of his life was...
  • Fleming, Walter Lynwood 1874-1932, American historian, b. near Brundidge, Ala. He taught at West Virginia Univ. (1904-7) and at Louisiana State Univ. (1907-17) before becoming professor of history at Vanderbilt. From 1923...
  • Force, Peter 1790-1868, American journalist and historian, b. near Paterson, N.J. He served in the War of 1812 and afterward established himself in Washington, D.C., as a printer. Entering local politics, he...
  • Ford, Paul Leicester 1865-1902, American historian and novelist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. His father, Gordon L. Ford, then possessed probably the best library of Americana in the country; Paul edited, with his brother...
  • Ford, Worthington Chauncey 1858-1941, American historian and editor, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. He was joint editor, with his brother Paul Leicester Ford, of Winnowings in American History (15 vol., 1890-91). While chief of the manuscripts...
  • Fox, Dixon Ryan 1887-1945, American historian and educator, b. Potsdam, N.Y. He taught at Columbia from 1912 to 1934, becoming full professor in 1927. From 1934 until his death he was president of Union College...
  • Frank, Tenney 1876-1939, American historian, b. Clay Center, Kans. After 1919 he was a professor at Johns Hopkins Univ. Among his best-known works are A History of Rome (1923), Economic History of Rome (1920,...
  • Franklin, John Hope 1915-, the dean of African-American historians, b. Rentiesville, Okla., grad. Fisk Univ. (A.B., 1935), Harvard Univ. (M.A., 1936; Ph.D., 1941). Franklin served on the faculties of his alma mater...
  • Freeman, Douglas Southall 1886-1953, American editor and historian, b. Lynchburg, Va. He was editor of the Richmond News Leader from 1915 to 1949, when he retired to devote most of his time to historical writing. An authority...
  • Gipson, Lawrence Henry 1880-1971, American historian, b. Greeley, Colo. A Rhodes scholar, he received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1918 and taught at several schools before becoming (1924) professor of history and head of the...
  • Greene, Evarts Boutell 1870-1947, American historian, b. Kobe, Japan, where his parents were missionaries, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1890; Ph.D., 1893). He began teaching American history (1894) at the Univ. of Illinois,...
  • Gregg, Josiah 1806-50, American trader and historian of the Santa Fe Trail , b. Overton co., Tenn. He moved with his family to Illinois (1809) and then to Missouri (1812). He gained wide knowledge from his diverse readings. He journeyed to Santa Fe for the first time in...
  • Handlin, Oscar 1915-, American historian, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1940 and has taught there since 1939. Most of his work is in U.S. social and economic history, particularly in the...
  • Hansen, Marcus Lee 1892-1938, American historian, b. Neenah, Wis. He spent almost four years in Europe gathering material for his studies on immigration. For The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 (1940), first volume of a projected trilogy, he was awarded (posthumously) the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for history. In 1928 he began teaching history at the Univ. of Illinois, where he was made full...
  • Hart, Albert Bushnell 1854-1943, American historian, b. Clarksville, Greene co., Pa. He began teaching history at Harvard in 1883, became a full professor in 1897, and from 1910 until his retirement in 1926 was...
  • Haskins, Charles Homer 1870-1937, American historian, an authority on medieval history, b. Meadville, Pa. At Harvard (1902-31) he was professor and dean of graduate studies (1908-24); in the latter capacity he greatly...
  • Hayes, Carlton Joseph Huntley 1882-1964, American historian and diplomat, b. Afton, N.Y. He began teaching history at Columbia in 1907, and from 1935 to his retirement in 1950 he held the Seth Low chair of history. He was noted...
  • Herndon, William Henry 1818-91, friend, law partner, and biographer of Abraham Lincoln , b. Greensburg, Ky. In 1844 he became the junior member of the Springfield, Ill., law firm of Lincoln and Herndon, a partnership that was never dissolved. The two became close friends, and Herndon...
  • Hildreth, Richard 1807-65, American historian, b. Deerfield, Mass. From 1832 to 1838 he was the leading editorial writer for the Boston Daily Atlas. In addition to writing controversial pamphlets and contributing to...
  • Hofstadter, Richard 1916-70, American historian, b. Buffalo, N.Y. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1942 and began teaching there in 1946, becoming full professor in 1952 and De Witt Clinton professor of...
  • Holst, Hermann Eduard von 1841-1904, American historian, b. Livonia (then part of Russia), of German parents. He was barred from Russia because of a pamphlet attacking the czarist government. He immigrated (1867) to the...
  • Hone, Philip 1780-1851, American diarist and politician, b. New York City. With his brother he built up a successful auctioneering business, which he later abandoned for politics. He was mayor of New York City...
  • Hunt, Gaillard 1862-1924, American historian and editor, b. New Orleans. He served (1887-1909, 1917-24) the Dept. of State in various capacities, his most important work being done as chief of the division of...
  • Jameson, John Franklin 1859-1937, American historian, b. Somerville, Mass. After teaching at Johns Hopkins, Brown, and the Univ. of Chicago he was director (1905-28) of the department of historical research of the...
  • Johnson, Allen 1870-1931, American historian, b. Lowell, Mass. He was professor of history at Iowa (now Grinnell) College (1898-1905), Bowdoin College (1905-10), and Yale (1910-26). He achieved a notable success...
  • Kuhn, Thomas Samuel 1922-96, American philosopher and historian of science, b. Cincinnati, Ohio. He trained as a physicist at Harvard (Ph.D. 1949), where he taught the history of science from 1948 to 1956. He...
  • Langer, William Leonard 1896-1977, American historian, b. Boston. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1923 and began teaching there in 1927. Langer served in U.S. intelligence in World War II and as assistant to the...
  • Lasch, Christopher 1932-94, American historian, b. Omaha, Neb., grad. Harvard, 1956, Ph.D., Columbia, 1961. After teaching at the Univ. of Iowa (1961-66) and Northwestern Univ. (1966-70), he became a professor of...
  • Lea, Henry Charles 1825-1909, U.S. historian, b. Philadelphia. He was associated with the family publishing business for many years, but his real interest was in historical work. Working with primary sources, he...
  • Mahan, Alfred Thayer 1840-1914, U.S. naval officer and historian, b. West Point, N.Y. A Union naval officer in the Civil War, he later lectured on naval history and strategy at the Naval War College, Newport, R.I., of...
  • Malone, Dumas 1892-1986, American historian and editor, b. Coldwater, Miss. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1923 and was an instructor of history at Yale (1919-23) and associate professor (1923-26) and...
  • Marshall, Samuel Lyman Atwood (S. L. A. Marshall), 1900-1977, American author and military analyst, b. Catskill, N.Y. Having served in World War I, he embarked upon a career in journalism, working as an editorial writer and...
  • McMaster, John Bach 1852-1932, American historian, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Having practiced engineering in New York City and written two books, McMaster was appointed (1877) an instructor in civil engineering at the College...
  • Miller, Perry 1905-63, U.S. historian, b. Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from the Univ. of Chicago in 1931 and taught at Harvard from 1931 until his death. A towering figure in the field of American intellectual...
  • Parrington, Vernon Louis 1871-1929, American literary historian and scholar, b. Aurora, Ill. His cultural interpretation of American literature was an expression of his belief in democratic idealism. His Main Currents in American Thought (3 vol., 1927-30) greatly influenced subsequent literary criticism. He was awarded the 1928 Pulitzer Prize in history for the first two volumes; the third volume was published posthumously. He also...
  • Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell 1877-1934, American historian, an authority on the antebellum South, b. La Grange, Ga. After teaching at the Univ. of Wisconsin (1902-8), he was professor of history and political science at Tulane...
  • Prescott, William Hickling 1796-1859, American historian, b. Salem, Mass. He entered his father's law office, but was compelled by a serious eye injury to abandon law. He received medical attention on a European trip and...
  • Randall, James Garfield 1881-1953, American historian, b. Indianapolis, Ind. He taught history and political science at various colleges before joining (1920) the faculty of the Univ. of Illinois. A leading authority on...
  • Reed, John 1887-1920, American journalist and radical leader, b. Portland, Oreg. After graduating from Harvard in 1910, he wrote articles for various publications and from 1913 was attached to the radical...
  • Rhodes, James Ford 1848-1927, American historian, b. Ohio City (now part of Cleveland). While studying in Europe he visited ironworks and steelworks in Germany and Great Britain, and upon his return he investigated...
  • Robinson, James Harvey 1863-1936, American historian, b. Bloomington, Ill. He taught history at the Univ. of Pennsylvania (1891-95) and Columbia (1895-1919), becoming a full professor in 1895. In 1919, he was one of the...
  • Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovich 1870-1952, American historian, b. Kiev, Ukraine. He studied at the Univ. of St. Petersburg where he was professor of Latin and of Roman history from 1898 to 1918. He emigrated to the United States...
  • Schlesinger, Arthur Meier 1888-1965, American historian, b. Xenia, Ohio. After teaching at Ohio State Univ. and the State Univ. of Iowa, he was a professor of history (1924-54) at Harvard and in 1928 became an editor of the...
  • Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr. 1917-, American historian and public official, b. Columbus, Ohio, son of Arthur Meier Schlesinger. He achieved early success as a historian with the publication, the year after his graduation, of his Harvard honors thesis, Orestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress (1939). In World War II he served with the Office of War Information (1942-43) and the Office of Strategic Services (1943-45), and he was professor of history at Harvard from 1946 to 1961. His Age of Jackson (1945), a brilliant reinterpretation of the social, political, and economic aspects of the era, stimulated numerous American historians to reexamine Jacksonian America and won the Pulitzer Prize. The Age of Roosevelt (3 vol., 1957-60) is a sweeping narrative and analysis of the New Deal period in U.S. history, written from a strongly sympathetic viewpoint. Active in liberal politics, Schlesinger was a cofounder of the Americans for Democratic Action (1947). He served as an...
  • Schouler, James 1839-1920, American historian and lawyer, b. West Cambridge (now Arlington), Mass. Admitted to the bar in 1862, he served in the Union army and returned to Boston in 1863 to practice law. From...
  • Shotwell, James Thomson 1874-1965, Canadian-American historian, b. Strathroy, Ont. A teacher of history at Columbia from 1900 and professor from 1908 to 1942, Shotwell also worked tirelessly to promote international...
  • Sparks, Jared 1789-1866, American historian and educator, b. Willington, Conn. He studied theology, mathematics, and natural philosophy at Harvard (1817-19). He was pastor of a Unitarian church in Baltimore...
  • Tannenbaum, Frank 1893-1969, American historian, b. Austria. He received his Ph.D. from the Brookings School of Economics in 1927. After an early career as a labor leader, journalist, and economic adviser, he became...
  • Taylor, Henry Osborn 1856-1941, American historian and legal scholar, b. New York City. His lifework was the study of ancient and medieval civilizations. Among his books are Ancient Ideals (1896); his masterpiece, The...
  • Thorndike, Lynn 1882-1965, American historian, b. Lynn, Mass. He taught history at Northwestern Univ. (1907-9), at Western Reserve Univ. (1909-24), and at Columbia (1924-50). Among his books on magic and science...
  • Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim 1912-89, American historian, b. New York City. She won the Pulitzer Prize for history twice, for The Guns of August (1962), about the onset of World War I, and for Stilwell and the American Experience...