Theodore Clarke Smith (1870–1960)Series Descriptions.
Williams College. Retrieved 6 October 2015. was professor of American history at

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from 1903 to 1938. Smith was an educationalist and curriculum reformer who served on the Committee on Curriculum of 1911-1927 and the Advisory Committee of 1911-1935. He wrote the often-cited ''The Wars Between England and America'' (1914) and produced a two volume life and letters of U.S. President

James Abram Garfield James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881 until his death six months latertwo months after he was shot by an assassin. A lawyer and Civil War gene ...

(1925). Smith contributed to the debate about the future of American historiography that took place in the

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and elsewhere. He was critical of the approach taken 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 ...

who, Smith argued, did not "consider it necessary to be impartial or even fair.""That Noble Dream"

Charles A. Beard Charles Austin Beard (1874–1948) was an American historian and professor, who wrote primarily during the first half of the 20th century. A history professor at Columbia University, Beard's influence is primarily due to his publications in the f ...

, ''The American Historical Review'', Vol. 41, No. 1. (October 1935), pp. 74-87. An archive of his correspondence with Harry A. Garfield is held at Williams College.

Selected publications

*''The Liberty and Free soil Parties in the Northwest. Toppan prize essay of 1896'', Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, 1897. (

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, Vol. 6) *''Parties and slavery, 1850-1859'', Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1906. *
The Wars Between England and America
',

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, London,

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, New York, 1914. (

Home University Library of Modern Knowledge The ''Home University Library of Modern Knowledge'' was a series of popular non-fiction books from the first half of the twentieth century that ran to over 200 volumes. The authors were eminent scholars in their fields and included Isaiah Berlin ...

, No. 82) *''The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield'',

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, New Haven, 1925. (2 vols.) *''The United States as a factor in world history'', H. Holt and Co., New York, 1941.

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* * Williams College faculty American historians 1870 births 1960 deaths {{US-historian-stub