biography
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Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier)
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pronunciation:
[shlezinjer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1888–1965)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Xenia, Ohio, USA. He studied at Columbia University, and taught at Ohio State, Iowa, and (from 1924) Harvard universities. His most important work is New Viewpoints in American History (1922), in which he emphasized social and cultural history. This concern, together with his interest in the history of urban growth, was a new departure in US historiography. His History of American Life (13 vols, 1928–43) was an attempt to describe all aspects of human life in America. He also established the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women, at Cambridge, MA. |
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