Richard Hofstadter [SEP] date of death
Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 – October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century.
Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier communist approach to history, in the 1950s he came closer to the concept of "consensus history", and was epitomized by some of his admirers as the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus." Others see in his work an early critique of the one-dimensional society, as
No. 4 (Dec., 1942), pp. 193–203.
- Hofstadter, Richard. "William Graham Sumner, Social Darwinist", "The New England Quarterly", Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep. 1941), pp. 457–77, reprinted in Hofstadter, "Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860–1915" (1944).
- Keller, A. G., "William Graham Sumner", "American Journal of Sociology", Vol. 15, No. 6 (May,