Carl L. Becker

Carl Lotus Becker ( born September 7, 1873 in Waterloo, Iowa, † April 10, 1945 in Ithaca, New York) was an American historian and university professor.

Biography

After school he studied at the University of Wisconsin and graduated in 1896 with a Bachelor of Letters ( B.Litt. ) From. After a post-graduate studies at Columbia University, which he finished with a Doctor of Letters ( D.Litt. ), He became in 1899 teacher of history and political science at Pennsylvania State College in 1901 and then professor at Dartmouth College. This was followed from 1902 to 1916 a professor at the University of Kansas.

In the meantime, he earned a 1907 Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D.) at the University of Wisconson with a dissertation on "The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York." Most recently, he worked after subsequent short stint as a professor of European history at the University of Minnesota from 1917 until his retirement in 1941 as professor at Cornell University.

He was also a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Historical Association, which he was president from 1931 to 1932.

Publications

In addition to his teaching, he has also written several books, which dealt in addition to the history of the United States with the history of 18th-century philosophy. His major publications include:

  • The Beginnings of the American People ( 1915)
  • The Eve of the Revolution (1918 )
  • The Declaration of Independence ( 1922)
  • The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (1932 )
  • Everyman His Own Historian (1935 )
  • How new will the better world be? A discussion of post -war reconstruction (1944 )

Quotes

  • "All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. " ( All historians even the most scientific, have tendencies, if only in the sense that its provisions do not have )
  • Men are spoken "Generally speaking, men are Influenced by books Which clarify Their Own thought, which express Their Own notions well, or Which suggest to them ideas Which Their Minds are already predisposed to accept. " ( General influenced by books which their own clarify thoughts, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which are already inclined their minds to accept )
  • " My own mind is my own church. " ( My own mind is my own church)
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