Arthur M. Schlesinger — American Historian born on February 27, 1888, died on October 30, 1965
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr. (/ˈʃlɛsɪndʒər/; (February 27, 1888 in Xenia, Ohio – October 30, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts) 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 (such as economic profit and conflict between businessmen and farmers) and downplayed ideology and values as motivations for historical actors. 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. , also both taught at Harvard and was a noted historian... (wikipedia)
