Dixon Ryan Fox (December 7, 1887 – January 30, 1945) was an American educator, researcher, and president of
Union College
Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, and second in the state of New York, after Columbia Co ...
,
New York from 1934 until his death in 1945.
Fox graduated from
Columbia College in 1911.
He took his Ph.D in history at
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
where he was influenced by
James Harvey Robinson
James Harvey Robinson (June 29, 1863 – February 16, 1936) was an American scholar of history who, with Charles Austin Beard, founded New History, a disciplinary approach that attempts to use history to understand contemporary problems, which g ...
,
Charles A. Beard and
Herbert L. Osgood. He married Osgood's daughter and taught at Columbia from 1912 to the mid-1930s.
His academic work focused on social history and American social, political and economic elite and power structures, especially as they relate to immigration, ethnic conflict and national identity.
Fox's publications have been reprinted due to their prescient nature, including ''The Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New York'' (1919, repr. 1971); a biography of
Herbert L. Osgood (his father-in-law); and ''Yankees and Yorkers'' (1940, 1989). With
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., he was co-editor of the series ''A History of American Life''.
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1887 births
1945 deaths
Columbia University faculty
20th-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
Presidents of Union College (New York)
Columbia College (New York) alumni
20th-century American male writers
Burials at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
20th-century American academics