James Harvey Robinson
From Philosopedia
Robinson, James Harvey (29 June 1863 - 16 February 1936)
Robinson, who was born in Bloomington, Illinois, taught history at the University of Pennsylvania (1891 - 1895) and Columbia University (1895 - 1919), where in 1895 he became a full professor.
In 1919 in New York City, he was one of the founders and also was the first director of The New School for Social Research (today known as The New School).
Robinson was an editor (1892–95) of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Also, he was also an associate editor (1912–20) of the American Historical Review and president (1929) of the American Historical Association.
Works
- Petrarch, The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letter (New York, G.P. Putman, 1898)
- An Introduction to the History of Western Europe (1902)
- The Development of Modern Europe (with Charles A. Beard, 2 volumes, 1907-1908)
- The New History (1912)
- Outlines of European History (with James Henry Breasted and Charles A. Beard, 1914)
- History of Europe: Our Own Times (with Charles A. Beard, Boston: Ginn and Co. 1921)
- The Mind in the Making:The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform (1921)
- The Humanizing of Knowledge (1924, 1926)
- The Human Comedy: As Devised and Directed by Mankind Itself (1937).
(See entry for Priscilla Robertson.)
