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On May 19, 1944, the Board of Regents granted the New School the ability to give bachelor’s degrees and the school aimed to attract adult students starting or finishing their degrees. The school was poised to take advantage of the recently passed G.I.Bill that gave government subsidy for education for soldiers returning from World War […]
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Ira Katznelson taught politics at The New School from 1983 until 1994. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Ira Katznelson, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions. Records pertaining to Ira Katznelson can be found in the New School Archives in the New School […]
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Emily James Smith Putnam (née Smith) was a historian, author and educator who served as the first dean of Barnard College in New York City. Born in 1865 in Canandaigua, New York, Putnam graduated from Bryn Mawr College as part of the first class of 1889. She then attended Girton College, Cambridge, for two years […]
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Charles Tilly taught sociology at The New School. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Charles Tilly, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions. For more in the New School Archives on Charles Tilly, see the Center for Studies of Social Change (CSSC) working papers, […]
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Charles Austin Beard (b. November 27, 1874–September 1, 1948) was an influential American historian, political scientist, and one of the foremost voices in progressive historiography. Beard was also a founding member of the New School for Social Research. Beard’s scholarship centered on foregrounding the role of economic forces in the making of American political institutions, […]
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" In his address at the 200th convocation of the University of Chicago, June 11, 1940, President Hutchins invited American youth to reexamine the principles which make life worth living. "
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" History is a science. It seeks the “truth.” But science is in quest of laws; history is content with describing the particular. What kind of particular? What is in the particular? "
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" In the brief span of five years in which American historians have begun to develop women’s history as an independent field, they have sought to find a conceptual framework and a methodology appropriate to the task. "
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" While still an undergraduate at the New School I offered my first course in Women’s History, “Great Women in American History” in the fall of 1962. "