This article is about the elder Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965). For his son and namesake (1917-), see Arthur Schlesinger, Jr..

Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr. (1888-1965) was an American historian. His son, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. is also a noted historian.

born in Xenia, Ohio

1910 graduated from Ohio State University

graduate study in history, Columbia University

taught at Ohio State University and the State University of Iowa

1924–1954 taught as a professor of history at Harvard University, where Schlesinger Library is named after him.

1928 became an editor of the New England Quarterly

Works

• 1918 The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763–1776
• 1922 New Viewpoints in American History
• 1933 The Rise of the City, 1878–1898
• 1941 Political and Social Growth of the American People, 1865–1940
• 1958 Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764–1776

See also

colonial history

social history

American historiography

James H. Robinson