John Higham

Background

HIGHAM, John was born on October 26, 1920 in New York, United States. Son of Lloyd Stuart Higham and Margaret (nee Windred) Higham.

Education

Bachelor, Johns Hopkins University, 1941; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1949.

Career

In the 1950s he was a prominent critic of Consensus history. He earned his undergraduate history degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1941 and received a master"s degree from Yale University in 1942. In World World War II, he served with the historical division of the Army Air Forces in Italy.

After serving as assistant editor of The American Mercury, he earned a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1949, working with Merle Curti.

He taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, Rutgers University, Columbia University and the University of Michigan before returning to Johns Hopkins in 1971. He is noted for having described anti-Catholicism in the United States as "the most luxuriant, tenacious tradition of paranoiac agitation in American history".

Higham died of a cerebral aneurysm in Baltimore, Maryland on July 26, 2003. He was 82 years old at the time of his death.

Achievements

• John Higham has been listed as a noteworthy history educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture

    (How has America, with its many ethnic, class, and ideolog...)

  • Send These to Me: Immigrants in Urban America

    ("John Higham, our most distinguished American social and ...)

  • Strangers in the land: patterns of American nativism, 1860-1925.

    (This book examines how American nativism evolved its own ...)

  • Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925

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  • New Directions in American Intellectual History

    (Book by Higham, Professor John)

  • Ethnic Leadership in America (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History)

    (Book by Higham, Professor John)

  • New Directions in American Intellectual History by Professor John Higham (1980-06-01)

    (Will be dispatched from UK. Used books may not include co...)

  • Strangers in the Land - Patterns of American Nativism 1860-1925

    (431 page paperback book.)

  • Strangers in the land: Patterns of American Nativism 1860-1925

    (history)

  • History (Humanistic scholarship in America)
  • Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture by Higham, John (2001) Hardcover
  • Strangers in the Land

Politics

Historian Dorothy Ross says, "The multi-ethnic environment of his early life in Queens, the wartime optimism, and his immersion in Progressive history, with its fundamental faith in American democracy, gave him a vision of an egalitarian, cosmopolitan, American nationalism in which he never lost faith.".

Membership

Served with United States Army Air Force, 1943-1945. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American History Association (council and executive committee 1971-1974, representative to American Council Learned Societies 1977-1980, founding editor American Heart Association Guide to History Literature, 3d edition 1987-1990, award for distinguished scholarship 2002), Organization American Historians (president 1973-1974), Michigan Society Fellows (senior fellow 1971-1973), New Society Letters Lund (Sweden), American Antiquarian Society, Society of America Historians, Immigration and Ethnic History Society (president 1979-1982, 2 Lifetime Achievement awards 2002), Century Club (New York City).

Connections

Married Eileen Moss, August 26, 1948. Children: Margaret, Jay, Daniel, Constance Vidor.

Father:

LLoyd Stuart Higham

Mother:

Margaret (Windred) Higham

Spouse:

Eileen Moss

child:

Jay Higham

child:

Daniel Higham

child:

Margaret Higham

child:

Constance Vidor Higham