John Walter Osborne (1927 – January 2, 2019) was an American historian. He was born in Brooklyn and educated at Rutgers University, where he was awarded a BA, an MA and a PhD.Obituary of John Walter Osborne
, rwwfh.com, retrieved April 16, 2020. Osborne was professor of history at Rutgers, where he taught British and European history. In 1988 he was awarded the Henry Browne Award for his teaching. After his retirement in 1993 he became professor emeritus.

Works

*''William Cobbett: His Thought and His Times'' (Rutgers University Press, 1966). *''The Silent Revolution: The Industrial Revolution in England as a Source of Cultural Change'' (Scribner, 1970). *''John Cartwright'' (Cambridge University Press, 1972). *(with

Karl W. Schweizer Karl Wolfgang Schweizer is a historian specialising in eighteenth century European history. Education and academic career Schweizer was born in Germany and was educated at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he gradua ...

), ''Cobbett in His Times'' (Leicester University Press, 1990).

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