Schlesinger, Arthur M

Schlesinger, Arthur M

▪ American historian
born Feb. 27, 1888, Xenia, Ohio, U.S.
died Oct. 30, 1965, Boston

      American historian whose emphasis on social and urban developments greatly broadened approaches to U.S. history.

      Schlesinger graduated from Ohio State University in 1910. When he entered Columbia University, New York City, to continue graduate study in history, he came under the influence of the progressive scholarship of James H. Robinson, James Thomson Shotwell, and Charles A. Beard. In New York City he also witnessed the pressures of early 20th-century immigration, urban growth, and progressivist politics.

      In 1912 Schlesinger began teaching at Ohio State University, Columbus, and in 1919 moved to the University of Iowa, Iowa City, where he introduced his innovative course, New Viewpoints in American History (published in book form in 1922). He also offered the first formal course on American social and cultural history, in 1922. Two years later, he began his three decades of teaching at Harvard University. His influence at Harvard extended both to the creation of a new Ph.D. program in the history of American civilization and to the establishment of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass.

      Schlesinger's first book, The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763–1776 (1917), was one of the most important and creative works on the economic interpretation of the Revolutionary era. One of the first works on the neglected role of urban growth as a major factor in the United States' national development was his Rise of the City, 1878–1898 (1933). His greatest production was the editing, with Dixon Ryan Fox, of A History of American Life, 13 vol. (1928–43), a comprehensive survey of the United States' cultural, social, and economic development, of which The Rise of the City was Schlesinger's own original contribution.

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