James Harvey Robinson
American historian, academician (1863–1936)
James Harvey Robinson (June 29, 1863 – February 16, 1936) was an American scholar of history who, with Charles Austin Beard, founded New History, a disciplinary approach that attempts to use history to understand contemporary problems, which greatly broadened the scope of historical scholarship in relation to the social sciences.2
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Born Jun 29, 1863, died Feb 16, 1936.1
Companies
- The New SchoolFounder10
Early life and education
Career
Occupation: university teacher, historian.6
- Date not recordedWorked at University of Pennsylvania4
- Date not recordedWorked at Columbia University4
- Date not recordedFounded The New School5
Personal life
James Harvey Robinson – on September 1, 1887, in Bloomington, Illinois – married Grace Woodville Read (maiden; 1866–1927). They had no children. Robinson was a brother of botanist Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1864–1935). By way of Robinson's wife's sister – Isabel Hamilton "Delle" Read (maiden; 1858–1923), the second wife of John Lewis (1842–1921) – Robinson was an uncle to Read Lewis (1887–1984), a lawyer who, among other things, in 1921 founded the Foreign Language Information Service and in 1940 co-founded the literary magazine Common Ground.
From Wikipedia’s article on James Harvey Robinson (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- 10WikidataThe New School, Founder
- 11Wikimedia CommonsJames Harvey Robinson photo by Unknown photographer, Public domain