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:''This article is about the elder Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965). For his son (1917-2007), see Arthur Schlesinger, Jr..'' Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr. (; (February 27, 1888 in Xenia, Ohio – October 30, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American historian who taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history. He was a Progressive Era intellectual who stressed material causes (such as economic profit and conflict between businessmen and farmers) and downplayed ideology and values as motivations for historical actors. He was highly influential as a director of PhD dissertations at Harvard for three decades, especially in the fields of social, women's, and immigration history. His son, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917-2007), also both taught at Harvard and was a noted historian. ==Life and career== Schlesinger's father, Bernhard Schlesinger, was a Prussian Jew, and his mother, Kate (née Feurle), was an Austrian Catholic. The two joined Protestantism together and emigrated to Xenia, Ohio, in 1872.〔(Straddling Worlds by Steven J. Harper, page 99 )〕〔(The Age of Schlesinger by James Chace | The New York Review of Books )〕 Arthur Schlesinger was born in Xenia, Ohio, and graduated from The Ohio State University in 1910. While a student at Ohio State, he was initiated into the Ohio Zeta chapter of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. He took his Ph.D. in history at Columbia University, where he was influenced by both Herbert L. Osgood and Charles A. Beard. He taught at Ohio State and the University of Iowa before he joined the faculty of Harvard University as a professor of history in 1924, succeeded Frederick Jackson Turner and taught at Harvard until 1954. Harvard's Schlesinger Library in women's history is named after him and his wife, Elizabeth, a noted feminist. He became an editor of the ''New England Quarterly'' in 1928. In Boston in 1929, city officials, under the leadership of James Curley, threatened to arrest Margaret Sanger if she spoke on birth control. In response, she stood on stage, silent with a gag over her mouth, while her speech was read by Arthur. Arthur enjoyed strong family ties and commitment. His two sisters, Olga and Marion Etna, became schoolteachers and made it possible for their three younger brothers (George, Arthur, and Hugo) to attend college graduating in engineering history and law. One of his sons was born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger and added "Meier" as his middle name later in life. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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