American intellectual historian
Cushing Strout was an American intellectual historian.[1] He was Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University.[2]
Works
- The Pragmatic Revolt in American History: Carl Becker and Charles Beard (1959)
- The American Image of the Old World (1963)
- Hawthorne in England: Selections from "Our Old Home" and "The English Note-Books" (1965)
- Conscience, Science & Security: The Case Of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1965) editor
- Spirit of American Government by J. Allen Smith (1965) editor
- Intellectual History in America (1968) editor, two volumes, Contemporary Essays on Puritanism, the Enlightenment & Romanticism, and From Darwin to Niebuhr
- Divided We Stand: Reflections on the Crisis at Cornell (1970) editor with David I. Grossvogel
- The New Heavens and New Earth: Political Religion in America (1973)
- The Veracious Imagination: Essays on American History, Literature and Biography (1981)[1]
- Making American Tradition: Visions & Revisions from Ben Franklin to Alice Walker (1990)
References
- ^ a b Fleming, Thomas (July 6, 1986). "Inventing Our Probable Past". The New York Times.
- ^ "Jefferson's Love Life Doesn't Equal History". The New York Times. April 25, 1995. pp. Section A, Page 22, Column 4, Editorial Desk.
External links
- Cushing Strout correspondence at Williams College Archives & Special Collections
