Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
American historian (1888-1965) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 77
Arthur Meier Schlesinger was an American historian who taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history. He was a Progressive Era intellectual who stressed material causes and downplayed ideology and values as motivations for historical actors.
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He was highly influential as a director of PhD dissertations at Harvard for three decades, especially in the fields of social, women's, and immigration history. His son, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), also taught at Harvard and was a noted historian.
