Arthur Schlesinger
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- This article is about the elder Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965). For his son and namesake (1917-), see Arthur Schlesinger, Jr..
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr. (1888-1965) was an American historian. His son, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. is also a noted historian.
He was born in Xenia, Ohio and graduated from Ohio State University in 1910. He obtained his graduate study in history at Columbia University. He taught at Ohio State University and the State University of Iowa before joining the faculty of Harvard University as a professor of history in 1924. Schlesinger taught at Harvard until 1954, and the school's Schlesinger Library is named after him. He also became an editor of the New England Quarterly in 1928.
Works
- 1918 The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763–1776
- 1922 New Viewpoints in American History
- 1933 The Rise of the City, 1878–1898
- 1941 Political and Social Growth of the American People, 1865–1940
- 1958 Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764–1776
