Background
Arthur Stanley Link was born on August 8, 1920 in New Market, Virginia, United States; the son of John William and Helen Elizabeth (Link) Link.
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Arthur S. Link received a Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Arthur S. Link held a Master of Arts from Oxford University.
Arthur Stanley Link was born on August 8, 1920 in New Market, Virginia, United States; the son of John William and Helen Elizabeth (Link) Link.
Arthur S. Link received a Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also held a Master of Arts from Oxford University.
Link is remembered as the editor of sixty-nine volumes of the papers of U.S. Resident Woodrow Wilson, issued from 1958 to 1994. Considered the foremost Wilson scholar, he also wrote a five-volume biography on Wilson, which included The Road to the White House, The New Freedom, The Struggle for Neutrality: 1914-1915, Confusions and Crises: 1915-1916, and Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace: 1916-1917.
In addition to devoting his career to Wilson studies, Link gave more than forty-five years to teaching. In 1945 he began four years at Princeton before spending the next eleven at Northwestern University. He rejoined the faculty at Princeton in 1960 as professor of history and became the Edwards Professor of American History in 1965, the George H. Davis ’86 Professor of American History in 1976, and professor emeritus in 1991. He also taught briefly at Johns Hopkins University, Oxford University, and the University of London. In 1993 he began serving as historian for the Bowman Gray School of Medicine.
Link also wrote about Wilson in Woodrow Wilson: A Brief Biography, Brother Woodrow: A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson, and Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War and Peace, and he edited books on the president such as Woodrow Wilson: A Profile. Link also penned books such as American Epoch: A History of the United States since the 1890s, The Growth of American Democracy: An Interpretive History, and Our American Republic.
Quotations:
"I've read a lot of history in my life, and I think that aside from St. Paul, Jesus and the great religious prophets, Woodrow Wilson was the most admirable character I've ever encountered in history."
"Most of the Hitler and Stalin scholars I know are depressed people."
Arthur Stanley Link was a member American Philos Society, American History Association, Southern History Association, Organization American Historians, National Council Churches, Massachusetts History Society, Association Documentary Editors, Society Colonial Wars, Nassau Club, Cosmos Club and Phi Beta Kappa.
Quotes from others about the person
John Little: "Link was the living embodiment of the Protestant work ethic."
Arthur Stanley Link married Margaret Douglas Link in 1945. The couple had four children - William A. Link, a historian, A. Stanley Link Jr., James Douglas Link, and Margaret Link Weil.