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Geoffrey Blodgett

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According to Wikipedia, Geoffrey Blodgett was Robert S. Danforth Professor of History at Oberlin College, located in Oberlin, Ohio. Career As a student at Oberlin from 1949-1953, he was a student of Oberlin history professor Robert Samuel Fletcher He was also a wide receiver on the Yeomen, the college's men's football team. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin in 1953, Blodgett served two years with the United States Navy in the Pacific Fleet. He received a PhD at Harvard University in 1961, and returned to the college a year later to join the History Department. His dissertation focused on a group of political reformers of the late 19th century who left the Republican Party to join the Democratic Party, the Mugwumps.

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Geoffrey Blodgett's Published Works

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Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, 1870-1920 (1983) (160)
Outlawing the Spoils: A History of the Civil Service Reform Movement, 1865- 1883. (1962) (61)
The Australian Ballot: The Story of an American Reform (1968) (59)
Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architecture as Conservative Reform (1976) (35)
British-American relations, 1917-1918 : the role of Sir William Wiseman (1970) (16)
The Mugwump Reputation, 1870 to the Present (1980) (15)
The Gentle Reformers: Massachusetts Democrats in the Cleveland Era (1966) (12)
Frederick Law Olmsted : the passion of a public artist (1991) (12)
Yankee Leadership in a Divided City (1982) (8)
Stanny: The Gilded Life of Stanford White (1989) (4)
Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy (1971) (4)
John Mercer Langston and the Case of Edmonia Lewis: Oberlin, 1862 (1968) (3)
Oberlin History: Essays and Impressions (2006) (2)
The Mind of the Boston M ugwzump (1962) (2)
Cass Gilbert, Architect: Conservative at Bay (1985) (2)
Desideratum in Washington: The Intellectual Community in the Capital City, 1870-1900 (1977) (2)
The Political Leadership of Grover Cleveland (1983) (1)
Forrest G. Wood, Black Scare: The Racist Response to Emancipation and Reconstruction. (1969) (1)
[Ideology and Political Culture from Jefferson to Nixon]: Comments (1977) (0)
The New Political History of the 1890s@@@The Politics of Depression: Political Behavior in the Northeast, 1893-1896. (1973) (0)
What was so Important about Carl Schurz?@@@Carl Schurz: A Biography. (1983) (0)
The Australian Ballot: The Story of an American Reform. By L. E. Fredman. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1968. xii + 150 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $5.75.) (1968) (0)
The Impulse to Deny: Two Views of the Prohibition Movement@@@Retreat from Reform: The Prohibition Movement in the United States, 1890-1913.@@@Deliver Us from Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition. (1977) (0)
Review: Selected Drawings: H. H. Richardson and His Office. A Centennial of His Move to Boston, 1874 by James F. O'Gorman (1975) (0)
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., 1815–1882. By Samuel Shapiro. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1961. xiv + 251 pp. Notes, references, and index. $5.00.) (1962) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. THE CITY: EFFORTS AT COOPERATION (1966) (0)
The Presidential Election of 1896. By Stanley L. Joaes. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964. x + 436 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $7.50.) (1964) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. THE MUGWUMP MIND (1966) (0)
Park Maker: A Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. By Elizabeth Stevenson. (New York: Macmillan, 1977. xxv + 484 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, selective bibliography, and index. $17.95.) (1978) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR. THE TARIFF AND THE YOUNG DEMOCRATS (1966) (0)
CHAPTER EIGHT. 1896 (1966) (0)
CHAPTER NINE. MAYOR QUINCY'S BOSTON (1966) (0)
Winston Churchill: The Novelist as Reformer (1974) (0)
Claude Bowers' Schoolboy Correspondence to William Everett (1967) (0)
CHAPTER TEN. AFTERMATH (1966) (0)
Review: Black Americans and the White Man's Burden, 1898-1903 (1977) (0)
CHAPTER ONE. 1884 (1966) (0)
Knights of the Golden Rule: The Intellectual as Christian Social Reformer in the 1890s by Peter J. Frederick (1977) (0)
The Gilded Age: A Reappraisal. Edited by H. Wayne Morgan. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1963. x + 286 pp. Notes and index. $5.50.) (1963) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN. THE NATION: EFFORTS AT CONTROL (1966) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. THE STATE: EFFORTS AT REFORM (1966) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. THE VICTORS AND THE SPOILS (1966) (0)
History Through a Hays Filter@@@American Political History as Social Analysis. (1981) (0)
The Christian Home In Victorian America, 1840–1900 by Colleen McDannell (1988) (0)
Josiah Quincy, Brahmin Democrat (1965) (0)
The Dawning World of Claude Bowers (1965) (0)

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