Background
Among his publications are The New History and the Social Studies (1925), The Genesis of the World War (1926), Living in the Twentieth Century (1928), The Twilight of Christianity (1929), History of Western Civilization (2 vol., 1935), Society in Transition (1939), and, in collaboration with Professor Howard Becker, Social Thought from Lore to Science (2 vol., 1938) and Contemporary Social Theory (1940). From 1943 to 1944 he served as chief consultant on prison industries for the War Production Board. His later publications include Social Institutions (1942), Prisons in Wartime (1944), and The Great World Revolutions (1946).