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Carl Becker

AKA Carl Lotus Becker

Born: 7-Sep-1873
Birthplace: Waterloo, IA
Died: 10-Apr-1945
Location of death: Ithaca, NY
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Everyman His Own Historian

Wife: Maude Hepworth Ranney (m. 1901, one son)

    University: BA, University of Wisconsin (1896)
    University: PhD, University of Wisconsin (1907)
    University: Columbia University
    Professor: Dartmouth College (1901-02)
    Professor: University of Kansas, Lawrence (1902-16)
    Professor: Cornell University (1917-41)

    American Historical Association

Author of books:
The Beginnings of the American People (1915, history)
The Eve of the Revolution (1918, history)
The Declaration of Independence (1922, history)
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (1932, history)
Everyman His Own Historian (1935, history)


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