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He was born in Liberty Corners, Wisconsin, the son of Thomas D. Ford, a physician, and of Helen Elizabeth Shumway, a schoolteacher.
He was educated in the Plainfield public schools, early displaying a bent toward a career as an educator.
In 1888 he entered the preparatory department of Upper Iowa University at Fayette and, after attaining sophomore standing, taught in a one-room school in Bremer County (1891 - 1892).
On the Madison campus Ford studied with the frontier historian Frederick Jackson Turner and the economist Richard T. Ely, and had as his adviser the medieval specialist Charles H. Haskins.
He then returned to the University of Wisconsin as a graduate student.
In 1899-1900, he studied at the University of Berlin, and subsequently enrolled at Columbia University, where his dissertation, Hanover and Prussia, 1795-1803: A Study in Neutrality, brought him a Ph. D. in 1903.
In this work, based on materials in German and British archives, Ford skillfully traced the development and failure of the idea of neutrality in Prussian history.
In 1901 Ford had accepted appointment as instructor in history at Yale University, where he remained for five years, and then left to assume a newly created professorship in modern European history at the University of Illinois.
Ford was offered the dual posts of chairman of the history department and dean of the graduate school at the University of Minnesota in 1913.
It was a dynamic era when Minnesota, under President George E. Vincent, was being transformed into a great state university. During Ford's quarter-century as dean, the graduate school grew from 175 students to 3, 300.
He built up the history department by bringing to Minnesota promising scholars and teachers, including some former colleagues from Illinois. Having a wide circle of acquaintances in the academic world and a gift for recognizing rising scholars, Ford raised the level of intellectual life not only in the university and the state, but also in the nation.
At the university he developed the library, dispensed grants with an eye to cooperative research, and fostered the university press. He was responsible for making the Mayo Clinic a part of the graduate school, with a stress on specialized training beyond the M. D. degree.
During most of these years, Ford taught an undergraduate course on modern Europe to classes as large as 700 students. He also offered graduate seminars in Prussian history. Ford soon achieved a national reputation and received many job offers.
In 1915, when he was appointed to the Executive Council of the American Historical Association, he began an influential relationship with that organization. After the United States entered World War I, George Creel, chairman of the Committee on Public Information, persuaded him to come to Washington, D. C.
From May 1917 to January 1919 Ford served there as director of civic and educational publications for the committee. Before he left this position, he was appointed to the American Historical Association's Special Committee on History and Education for Citizenship in the Schools.
He was on the association's Commission for Investigation of Social Studies in the Schools in 1929. Ford's second book, Stein and the Era of Reform in Prussia, 1807-1815 (1922), stressed Stein's agrarian reforms and became a standard study.
But it was as an "academic statesman" and editor that Ford chiefly made his mark. When his teacher Turner became president of the American Historical Association, Ford edited Essays in American History: Dedicated to Frederick Jackson Turner (1910).
In 1922 he became editor-in-chief of Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia; he was also editor of Harper's Historical Series. A volume of essays produced under his editorship, Dictatorship in the Modern World (1935), was widely read. With a "winking shrewdness and good temper, " Ford directed his talents, not without benefit to the University of Minnesota, to some of the nation's great intellectual institutions.
In the Association of American Universities he wielded great influence.
The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation, of which he was a staff member, sent Ford to Germany in 1924 to study postwar university needs in the social sciences. The following year he became a member of the Guggenheim Foundation's advisory council.
In 1930 he was named to study the aims, organization, and policies of Brown University; the report of the survey committee was published by Brown. Ford was offered the presidency of the University of Texas in 1924, but he declined.
In 1931-1932 and in 1937-1938 he served as acting president of the University of Minnesota, and in 1938 was appointed president.
In the same year he served as president of the American Historical Association.
Also in 1938, colleagues presented Ford with a volume of his writings, On and off the Campus. Ford retired from the university presidency in 1941. Later that year he was named by the American Historical Association to the combined offices of executive secretary, editor of the association, and managing editor of the American Historical Review. Because of the entrance of the United States into World War II, the 1941 meeting of the association was canceled and the inflow of contributions temporarily shrank.
But with his wonted enterprise Ford continued to bring out the Review during the war and concluded twelve years of editorship in his eightieth year, during the hysteria created by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Following his retirement, Ford lived in Washington, D. C. , where he died.
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In his valedictory Ford said, "The only intolerance that befits a democracy is the intolerance of the intolerant whether of the right or the left. "
Quotations: His presidential address, "Some Suggestions to Americans, " affirmed his creed: "If history has any lessons to teach, the supreme one is that of ceaseless change within human society and in mankind's relation to his physical environment. "
In 1920 he became a member of the association's board of editors; he served as chairman of that board from 1921 to 1927.
From 1923 to 1940 he was a member of the Social Science Research Council, which he served for three years as vice-chairman, managing at last to give the American Historical Association official representation in that body.
He married Grace Victoria Ellis on September 6, 1907; they had two children.