Education
Originally from Virginia, Hesseltine studied at the Ohio State University.
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Career
He was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He opposed Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt"s foreign policy in the years before the United States entered World World War World War II
A number of his doctoral students at Madison went on to be influential historians in their own right, including Kenneth M. Stampp, Frank Freidel, Richard North. Current, Stephen East. Ambrose, and T. Harry Williams. In addition, Hesseltine influenced the development of the field of rhetoric through his mentoring of Robert G. Gunderson.
In 1945 Hesseltine wrote ““Writing intellectual history is like trying to nail jelly to the wall.”
1960 President of the Southern Historical Association.
Membership
He was for a time an active member of the Socialist Party of the United States, accepting its nomination for United States. vice president in 1948.
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Socialist Party