Robinson, James Harvey, 1863–1936, American historian, b. Bloomington, Ill. He taught history at the Univ. of Pennsylvania (1891–95) and Columbia (1895–1919), becoming a full professor in 1895. In 1919, he was one of the founders of the New School for Social Research (now New School Univ. New School University, in New York City; coeducational; chartered and opened 1919 as the New School for Social Research, a center for adult education, renamed 1997.
..... Click the link for more information. ), of which he was the 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 (1892–95) of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, he was also an associate editor (1912–20) of the American Historical Review and president (1929) of the American Historical Association.

Robinson, James Harvey

(born June 29, 1863, Bloomington, Ill., U.S.—died Feb. 16, 1936, New York, N.Y.) U.S. historian. Robinson received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg and returned to the U.S. to teach European history, principally at Columbia University (1895–1919). In The New History (1912), he called for the use of the social sciences in historical scholarship and put forth his controversial contention that the study of the past should serve primarily to improve the present. Among his other works are The Mind in the Making (1921) and several influential textbooks, including The Development of Modern Europe (1907–08; with Charles Beard).

Robinson, James Harvey (1863–1936) historian; born in Bloomington, Ill. Educated at Harvard University (B.A., 1887; M.A. 1888) and receiving his doctorate in Germany, he taught European history at Columbia University (1895–1919), where his espousal of "intellectual history" greatly influenced students of the day. He collaborated on textbooks with Charles Beard and James Breasted and helped found the New School for Social Research (1919–21). His popular Mind in the Making (1921) displays his innovative historical methodology, emphasizing the development of human understanding as opposed to conventional political and economic events.

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