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James Harvey Robinson

About the Author

James Harvey Robinson (1863-1936) pioneered the study of a new kind of history, which considered intellectual and social progress as well as political and military events. Born in Bloomington, Illinois, he resigned from Columbia University in 1919 because of a dispute over academic freedom, becoming a founder and first director of the New School for Social Research.