Winfred Trexler Root
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- PhD Computer Science Stanford University
- Masters Computer Science Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Winfred Trexler Root was an American historian and educator. Root was born in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania and received his undergraduate education at Princeton University. He earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1908, thereafter joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin. In 1925 he accepted a position as head of the history department at the University of Iowa, succeeding Arthur M. Schlesinger, and would remain there until his death. George L. Mosse, who was a history professor at Iowa during Root's tenure, described him as a "benevolent dictator". In 1930 Root was elected to the Council of the American Historical Association.
Winfred Trexler Root's Published Works
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- Causes of Crime. Biological Theories in the United States, 1800-1915 (1939) (40)
- The Lords of Trade and Plantations, 1675-1696 (1917) (6)
- Two cases showing marked change in i.q. (6)
- The intelligence quotient from two viewpoints. (5)
- The Personality of Criminals (1932) (5)
- Beyond the Clinical Frontiers (1940) (5)
- Education for clinical psychology. (1944) (4)
- Book Review:Royal Government in America: A Study of the British Colonial System before 1783 Leonard Woods Labaree (1932) (4)
- European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its Dependencies. Frances Gardiner Davenport (1929) (3)
- Essays in Colonial History (1932) (2)
- Johnson, Amandus. The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware: Their History and Relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, I638-I664. Two volumes. Pp. xxxii, 897. Price, $6.00. New York: D. Appleton & Co., I9II (1912) (2)
- : The British Empire before the American Revolution: provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis (1937) (1)
- Readings in psychology (1936) (1)
- Political Leaders of Provincial Pennsylvania. By Isaac Sharpless, President of Haverford College 1887–1917. (New York: Macmillan Company. 1919. Pp. ix, 248. $2.50) (1920) (1)
- Book Reviews: Cities in the Wilderness, by Carl Brindenbaugh (1939) (0)
- Book Review:The British Empire before the American Revolution Lawrence Henry Gipson (1940) (0)
- Eight First Biographies of William Penn in Seven Languages and Seven Lands (1939) (0)
- The American Revolution in New Books and New Light (1942) (0)
- First Settlers of Te Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge Olde East New Jersey, 1664–1714. By Orra Eugene Monnette. Part III. (Los Angeles: The Author, 1931. Part III, 151 pp. Illustrations. $8.25.) (1932) (0)
- Agrarian Conflicts in Colonial New York, 1711–1775. By Irving Mark. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. Pp. 237. $3.00 (1942) (0)
- The American Colonies, 1492-1750 (0)
- The Teacher and Liberal Education (1947) (0)
- The American Revolution Reconsidered (1942) (0)
- Psychology for life insurance underwriters (1931) (0)
- Letters and Resolutions (1936) (0)
- Intelligence and Crime.Simon H. Tulchin (1940) (0)
- Book Review:Zones of International Friction: The Great Lakes Frontier, Canada, the West Indies, India, 1748-1754 Lawrence Henry Gipson (1944) (0)
- Book Review:European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its Dependencies Charles Oscar Paullin (1939) (0)
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