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Robert McNutt McElroy was born on December 28, 1872 in Perryville, Kentucky. He was the son of William Thomas McElroy, a Presbyterian minister, and Eliza Casseday.
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Robert McNutt McElroy was born on December 28, 1872 in Perryville, Kentucky. He was the son of William Thomas McElroy, a Presbyterian minister, and Eliza Casseday.
In the early 1880's McElroy's family moved to Louisville, where he was educated in the public schools. He attended Princeton University, from which he received the B. A. in 1896, the M. A. in 1897, and the Ph. D. in 1900.
After a year of study in Europe, he returned to Princeton in 1901 as assistant professor of American history. In 1909 he published his first book, Kentucky in the Nation's History. That year Princeton named him Edwards professor of American history, and in 1912 he became chairman of the department of history and politics, a post he held for the next thirteen years. In 1914 he published The Winning of the Far West, a continuation of Theodore Roosevelt's Winning of the West. At the outbreak of World War I, McElroy was forcibly detained in Germany for a month. Making no secret of his hope for British victory, he argued as early as November 1914 that the United States might eventually have to join Britain in defense of "representative government. " He considered President Woodrow Wilson's early resistance to calls for preparedness unpatriotic, and in 1915 he was one of the founders of the Plattsburgh civilian training movement. In 1916-1917, McElroy served as the first American exchange professor to China, lecturing at Tsing Hua University in Peking and elsewhere. His lectures were published as The Representative Idea in History (1917). Afterward he continued to work for Chinese-American understanding as managing director of the China Society of America. Back in the United States and eager to aid the war effort, McElroy accepted an invitation to work for the National Security League (NSL), an organization founded in 1914 to press for preparedness that was now launching an intensive loyalty campaign. As the educational director of the league, McElroy frankly avowed his intention to "conduct propaganda" through an "Americanization" program designed to overcome the effects of what he termed "nullification in education" the neglect or refusal of the diverse educational systems in the country to instill patriotism in their students or to provide the means or the desire for assimilation among immigrants.
His Committee on Patriotism Through Education, composed largely of historians, issued scores of pamphlets and dispatched a virtual army of lecturers to teachers' meetings and other groups throughout the country. The league prepared a series of lessons on American war aims and sought to rid the schools of instruction in the German language, which McElroy branded as a vehicle for German propaganda and an obstacle to assimilation. One of the league's most effective speakers, McElroy addressed 104 audiences totaling 130, 000 listeners in his first year. His reliance upon shock techniques occasionally backfired, as in April 1918, when he charged a University of Wisconsin audience with pro-German sympathies. Outraged university officials defended the students' loyalty and banned further NSL speakers. The incident figured largely in a congressional investigation of the league (December 1918 - February 1919), during which McElroy defiantly defended his conduct. After the war the organization turned to anti-Communism, and McElroy produced pamphlets characterizing Bolshevism as a bloodthirsty dictatorship. In the fall of 1919, McElroy resumed his duties at Princeton, although he remained in touch with public affairs. In 1920 he did publicity work for Leonard Wood's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, and later gave speeches for Warren G. Harding. He campaigned for Calvin Coolidge in 1924 and for Herbert Hoover in 1928. His scholarly interests at this time turned toward biography. At the request of Grover Cleveland's widow, McElroy wrote a life of the former president in 1923, and he honored a similar request by the family of former Vice-President Levi P. Morton in 1930. Seven years later he completed a biography of Jefferson Davis. Although these works rested on substantial research, none of them achieved sufficient critical distance from its subject. Only the Morton work remains unsuperseded.
In 1924 he wrote on world events as international editor of Current History. The next year he was elected Harmsworth professor of American history at Oxford, where for fourteen years his teaching focused upon the evolution of America from disparate states into a united nation as a metaphor for evolving world unity. As Sir George Watson professor at several British universities in 1926, McElroy entitled his lectures on past British-American crises The Pathway of Peace (1927). In the mid-1930's, at the Institute of Public Affairs held annually at the University of Virginia, he continued to denounce the "provincial mind" and to call for international understanding and cooperation to preserve peace. McElroy retired from Oxford in 1939 and returned to Princeton. He died at Lihue, Hawaii.
McElroy was the first American professor to teach in China on an official professor-exchange program, lecturing there from 1916 to 1917. He became a jingoistic advocate of a strong national defense during World War I, working with the National Security League (NSL). He was a noted biographer of Grover Cleveland and Jefferson Davis, and wrote respected histories of the states of Kentucky and Texas and the conquest of the American W.
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Despite his conservatism and his record as a professional patriot, in the 1920's McElroy persistently decried isolationism and advocated "the international mind, " a somewhat vague notion of a worldwide consensus emphasizing the congruence of interests among nations rather than their differences. He argued for a stronger League of Nations and for American participation in the World Court.
Always an Anglophile, he criticized traditional American historical writing on the Revolution and the War of 1812 for portraying Britain as an unmitigated villain and thereby impeding Anglo-American friendship.
In 1900 McElroy married Louise Robinson Booker; they had two children.
1829 - 1910
9 May 1842 - 23 December 1927
18 March 1868 - 29 April 1888
30 November 1860 - 20 January 1935
11 April 1863 - 25 June 1882
31 May 1874 - 8 February 1942
31 May 1901 - 24 August 1965
17 August 1902 - 3 December 1986
