Herbert Levi Osgood
| Herbert Levi Osgood | |
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| Born |
April 9, 1855 Canton, Maine, USA |
| Died | September 11, 1918 (aged 63) New York City, USA |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1886–1924 |
| Subject | American History, Colonial History |
Herbert Levi Osgood (April 9, 1855 in Canton, Maine – September 11, 1918 in New York City) was an American historian of colonial American history. As a professor at Columbia University he directed numerous dissertations of scholars who became major historians. Osgood was a leader of the "Imperial historians" who studied, and often praised, the inner workings of the British Empire in the 18th century.
Osgood was born in Maine, and attended Amherst College, from which he graduated in 1877, having studied under John W. Burgess. He received his Master's from Amherst in 1880, took graduate classes at Yale, and spent a year in Berlin, before returning to the United States to teach at Brooklyn High School and resume graduate studies at Columbia under Burgess, who had recently moved there. Osgood received his doctorate from Columbia in 1889. He had already published two well-received articles in the journal Political Science Quarterly, which Burgess had founded in 1886: "Scientific Socialism" (Dec. 1886), and "Scientific Anarchism" (Mar. 1889)—the two articles were then put together as his doctoral dissertation.
Osgood then went to London to study documents relating to colonial America in the archives of the British Museum and the Public Record Office. Returning to the United States once more, he served as an assistant to Burgess for six years, and immediately began teaching the course on "Political History of the Colonies and the American Revolution" in 1891. In 1896, Osgood was appointed professor, in which position he remained until his death.
His son-in-law, Dixon Ryan Fox, was also a historian, as well as author of a biography of Osgood, Herbert Levi Osgood, an American scholar (1924). Additionally, his nephew Ernest Staples Osgood was a prominent historian of the American West.
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