Merle Curti
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American historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Merle Eugene Curti was an American progressive historian who influenced peace studies, intellectual history and social history, including by using cliometrics . At Columbia University and for decades at the University of Wisconsin, Curti directed 86 finished Ph.D. dissertations and had a wide range of correspondents. He was known for his commitment to democracy, as well as the Turnerian thesis that social and economic forces shape American life, thought and character.
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Published Works
- The Social Ideas of American Educators (1978) (163)
- The Growth of American Thought (1943) (130)
- Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education (1966) (101)
- The Making of an American Community, a Case Study of Democracy in a Frontier County (1960) (96)
- A History and Criticism of American Public Address (1944) (92)
- Arsenals of a democratic culture : a social history of the American public library movement in New England and the middle states from 1850 to 1900 (1948) (91)
- The roots of American loyalty (1946) (71)
- The Changing Concept of “Human Nature” in the Literature of American Advertising (1967) (54)
- Rise of the American nation (1961) (43)
- American philanthropy abroad (1988) (38)
- : Seedtime Of Reform: American Social Service and Social Action, 1918-1933 (1964) (37)
- American Philanthropy and the National Character (1958) (36)
- American philanthrophy abroad : a history (1964) (34)
- The Making of an American Community (1960) (31)
- The History of American Philanthropy as a Field of Research (1957) (31)
- Frederick Jackson Turner (1949) (29)
- The University of Wisconsin: A History, 1848-1925 (1949) (29)
- The University of Wisconsin : a history (1949) (28)
- Human Nature in American Thought (1953) (24)
- America at the World Fairs, 1851-1893 (1950) (23)
- Human Nature in American Thought: A History (1980) (21)
- The American Peace Crusade, 1815-1860 (21)
- Peace or War, the American Struggle, 1636-1936. (1936) (21)
- A documentary history of education in the South before 1860 (1950) (19)
- Subsidizing Radicalism: The American Fund for Public Service, 1921-41 (1959) (17)
- The Great Mr. Locke: America's Philospher, 1783-1861 (1937) (17)
- The social ideas of American educators : with new chapter on the last twenty-five years (1959) (15)
- Intellectuals and Other People (1955) (15)
- Magazines in the United States, their Social and Economic Influence. (1950) (14)
- American Scholarship in the Twentieth Century (1953) (13)
- Prelude to Point Four. American Technical Missions Overseas, 1838-1938. (1978) (13)
- Philosophical Lectures by Samuel Williams, LL. D., on the Constitution, Duty, and Religion of Man (1971) (13)
- Jane Addams on Human Nature (1961) (12)
- The American Lyceum: Town Meeting of the Mind. (1956) (10)
- The Immigrant and the American Image in Europe, 1860–1914 (1950) (10)
- German-Americans and the World War (With Special Emphasis on Ohio's German-Language Press). By Carl Wittke. Ohio Historical Collections, Vol. V. (Columbus: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1936. xi + 223 pp.) (1937) (9)
- American paradox : the conflict of thought and action (1957) (8)
- Anatomy of Giving: Millionaires in the Late 19th Century (1963) (7)
- Probing Our Past (1955) (7)
- The American Scholar in Three Wars (1942) (7)
- Francis Lieber and Nationalism (1941) (6)
- The Reputation of America Overseas (1776-1860) (1949) (5)
- Indiana University, midwestern pioneer (1970) (5)
- The Learned Blacksmith: The Letters and Journals of Elihu Burritt (2000) (5)
- Origins of the Modern American Peace Movement, 1915–1929. By Charles DeBenedetti. (Millwood, N.Y.: KTO, 1978. xv + 281 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $15.00.) (1980) (4)
- Human nature in American historical thought (1968) (4)
- The American Exploration of Dreams and Dreamers (1966) (4)
- Non-Resistance in New England (4)
- Woodrow Wilson's Concept of Human Nature (1957) (4)
- Human Nature in American Thought: Retreat from Reason in the Age of Science (1953) (4)
- America's history (1950) (3)
- The Changing Pattern of Certain Humanitarian Organizations (1935) (3)
- The Roots of American Civilization; History of American Colonial Life. (1938) (3)
- Triumph of the American nation (1986) (3)
- The Democratic Spirit: A Collection of American Writings from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1942) (2)
- American History (1958) (2)
- Reflections on the Genesis and Growth of Peace History (1985) (2)
- Historical Studies Today Felix Gilbert Stephen R. Graubard (1973) (2)
- A Letter of Christina Rossetti (1936) (2)
- American Issues: The Social Record (1968) (1)
- American Democracy and The World War. Pre-War Years 1913-1917 Frederic L. Paxson (1936) (1)
- Bryan and world peace (1969) (1)
- Rise of the American nation : with 1964 supplement (1964) (1)
- William Jennings Bryan. (1936) (1)
- I. The Setting and the Problems (1953) (1)
- Ideas in America's cultures from Republic to mass society (1982) (1)
- Robert Rantoul, Jr., The Reformer in Politics (1932) (1)
- The American literary record (1961) (1)
- The Open Door at Home: A Trial Philosophy of National Interest. By Charles A. Beard with the collaboration of G. H. E. Smith. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. ix + 331 pp. $3.00.) (1935) (1)
- John C. Calhoun and the Unification of Germany (1935) (1)
- The Long View—The Schools and the Defense (1941) (0)
- Book Review:Social and Economic History of the United States. Vol.I, from Handicraft to Factory, 1500-1820. H. J. Carman (1931) (0)
- Letters To the Editor (1950) (0)
- A Good Harvest from Hazardous Fields@@@History and American Society: Essays of David M. Potter. (1973) (0)
- The Making of an American Community: A Thirty-Year Retrospective@@@The Making of an American Community: A Case Study of Democracy in a Frontier County. (1988) (0)
- The World of Washington Irving. By Van Wyck Brooks. (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1944. 483 pp. Chapter notes and index. $3.75.) (1945) (0)
- Reformers Consider the Constitution (1938) (0)
- Scientific Thought in the Colonial Colleges, 1638-1800 (1946) (0)
- A Good Harvest from Hazardous Fields (1973) (0)
- Aspects of the Social History of America.Theodore Sizer , Andrew C. McLaughlin , Dixon Ryan Fox , Henry Seidel Canby (1934) (0)
- Projects in American History and Culture (1945) (0)
- Uncle Sam as a Missionary (1940) (0)
- 1944 Award. About the Growth of Thought in America (1993) (0)
- AMERICA IN THE 1920s (1965) (0)
- Living American documents (1971) (0)
- BHR volume 41 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1967) (0)
- Jews in New England, No. I, Historical Study of the Jews in Massachusetts; No. II, Jewish Merchants in Colonial Rhode Island.@@@Jewish Pioneers and Patriots. (1943) (0)
- Fiftieth Anniversary of The Journal of Negro History (1966) (0)
- A history of American civilization (1969) (0)
- Probing our past / Merle Curti (1955) (0)
- Moorings old and new : entries in an immigrants's log (1963) (0)
- The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved. By Richard Harrison Shryock. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947 (revised edition). xv + 457 + xv pp. Acknowledgments, illustrations, and index. $5.00.) (1948) (0)
- TECHNICAL RESEARCH PUBLIC OPINION AND THE STUDY OF HISTORY (1937) (0)
- The building of the nation (1967) (0)
- Fair, Judicious, and Pre-Eminent: Yale College: An Educational History, 1871–1921 (1953) (0)
- The Making of an American Community: A Case History of Democracy in a Frontier County. (1959) (0)
- Book Review:The Development of the Peace Idea and Other Essays. Benjamin F. Trueblood (1934) (0)
- The Impact of Totalitarianism on American Education (1941) (0)
- Popular Education and Democratic thought in America. By Rush Welter. (New York: Columbia University Press. 1962. Pp. xiii, 473. $8.50.) (1963) (0)
- In Pursuit of Human Nature@@@Human Nature in American Thought: A History. (1980) (0)
- The Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry concerning World Understanding F. S. C. Northrop (1947) (0)
- The Growth of American Thought: A Reconsideration@@@The Growth of American Thought. (1986) (0)
- The Social and Economic Characteristics of the Leaders (1940) (0)
- Immediate Problems of the Schools (1942) (0)
- Book Review:The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795 Edmund S. Morgan (1962) (0)
- Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War. By Peter Brock. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968. xii + 1005 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $18.50.) (1969) (0)
- Morally We Roll Along.@@@Henry Ford and Greenfield Village. (1938) (0)
- Thomas D. Clark. Indiana University: Midwestern Pioneer. Volume 2, In Mid-Passage. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1973. Pp. xviii, 429. $17.50 (1975) (0)
- Norway and the Nobel Peace Prize. Oscar J. Falnes (1938) (0)
- This Almost Chosen People: Essays in The History of American Ideas. By Russel B. Nye. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1966. x + 374 pp. Bibliographical acknowledgements and index. $7.50.) (1967) (0)
- Man and businessman: Changing concepts of human nature as reflected in the writing of American business history (1968) (0)
- Book Reviews: They Were in Prison; A History of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, 1787-1937, by Negly K. Teeters (1938) (0)
- Book Review:Propaganda and the American Revolution, 1763-1783. Philip Davidson (1941) (0)
- The Comparative Approach to American History. Ed. by C. Vann Woodward. (New York: Basic Books, 1968. xi + 370 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. $6.50.) (1968) (0)
- Assorted American Problems (1942) (0)
- George N. Sanders—American Patriot of the Fifties (1928) (0)
- Book Review:Wellsprings of the American Spirit: A Series of Addresses. F. Ernest Johnson (1948) (0)
- Book Review:The History of Peace: A Short Account of the Organised Movements for International Peace A. C. F. Beales (1931) (0)
- Book Review:Socialized History in the United States. Charles Garrett Vannest, Henry Lester Smith (1932) (0)
- Theory and Practice in Historical Study: A Report of the Committee on Historiography (1946) (0)
- Book Review: Blueprints for Leviathan: American Style, by Roy F. Nichols (1964) (0)
- Allan Nevins on History Ray Allen Billington (1976) (0)
- Everyman His Own Historian: Essays on History and Politics. By Carl L. Becker. (New York: F. S. Crofts and Company. 1935. Pp. 325. $2.50.) (1935) (0)
- Whitman. By Newton Arvin. (New York: Macmillan Co., 1938. xii + 320 pp. Chronology and bibliography. $2.75.) (1939) (0)
- American issues : Revised and enlarged (1954) (0)
- The Politics of History Howard Zinn (1971) (0)
- Book Review:The Significance of Sections in American History. Frederick Jackson Turner (1933) (0)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Elihu Burritt (1935) (0)
- Hands Across Frontiers: Case Studies in Technical Cooperation . Ed. by Howard M. Teaf Jr., and Peter G. Franck. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1955. 579. $5.50. (1956) (0)
- The Year of the Oath George Stewart (1951) (0)
- "The Lost Cause"@@@The Collapse of the Confederacy. (1938) (0)
- Prelude to Point Four. American Technical Missions Overseas, 1838-1938 (1955) (0)
- American Intellectual History in the Secondary Schools (1938) (0)
- The historical scholarship of Richard H. Shryock. (1974) (0)
- The Growth of American Thought.@@@Freedom's Ferment.@@@American Freethought, 1860-1914. (1945) (0)
- Henry Dunant: Prophet of Peace (1966) (0)
- Ideas in America Howard Mumford Jones (1944) (0)
- Letter To the Editor (1941) (0)
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