James Harvey Robinson
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James Harvey Robinson was an American historian.

Robinson was born Bloomington, Illinois
Bloomington, Illinois
Bloomington is a city in McLean County, Illinois, United States and the county seat. It is adjacent to Normal, Illinois, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area...

. He taught history
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 at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

 (1891–95) and Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 (1895–1919), becoming a full professor
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 in 1895. Following a series of faculty departures from Columbia in disputes about academic freedom, including that of his friend Charles A. Beard
Charles A. Beard
Charles Austin Beard was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science...

, Robinson resigned from Columbia in May of 1919 to become one of the founders of the New School for Social Research and serve as its first director.

Through his writings and lectures, in which he stressed the "new history" — the social, scientific, and intellectual progress of humanity rather than merely political happenings — he exerted an important influence on the study and teaching of history. An editor
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 (1892–95) of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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, he was also an associate editor (1912–20) of the American Historical Review
American Historical Review
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and president in 1929 of the American Historical Association
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.

Works

  • Petrarch,The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters, New York: G.P. Putman, 1898
  • An Introduction to the History of Western Europe, 1902
  • Outlines of European History (with J. H. Breasted
    James Henry Breasted
    James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago, where he continued to...

     and C. A. Beard
    Charles A. Beard
    Charles Austin Beard was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science...

    ) 1914
  • History of Europe: Our Own Times (with Charles A. Beard
    Charles A. Beard
    Charles Austin Beard was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science...

    ) Boston: Ginn and Co., 1921
  • The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform, 1921
  • The Humanizing of Knowledge, New York: George H. Doran Co., 1923
  • The Ordeal of Civilization, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926 (reissued as The Story of Our Civilization)
  • The Story of Our Civilization, New York: William H. Wise & Co., 1934 (formerly entitled The Ordeal of Civilization)
  • The Human Comedy: As Devised and Directed by Mankind Itself, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937

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