AKA Arthur Meier Schlesinger

Born: 27-Feb-1888
Birthplace: Xenia, OH
Died: 30-Oct-1965
Location of death: Boston, MA [1]
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH

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

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Rise of the City

Father: Bernhard Schlesinger
Mother: Katharine Feurle
Wife: Elizabeth Bancroft (m. 1914)
Son: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (b. 1917)

    University: AB, Ohio State University (1910)
    University: PhD, Columbia University (1918)
    Professor: Ohio State University (1912-19)
    Professor: University of Iowa (1919-22)
    Professor: Harvard University (1922-54)

    Jewish Ancestry

Author of books:
The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763–1776 (1917, history)
New Viewpoints in American History (1922, history)
Rise of the City, 1878–1898 (1933, history)
Political and Social Growth of the American People, 1865–1940 (1941, history)
Learning How To Behave: A Historical Study of American Etiquette Books (1946)
Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764–1776 (1958, history)
The Birth of the Nation: A Portrait of the American People on the Eve of Independence (1968, history)

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