Richard J. Jensen | |
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 Jensen in 2012 | |
| Born | Richard Joseph Jensen October 24, 1941 South Bend, Indiana, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Notre Dame (BA) Yale University (MA, PhD) |
| Thesis | The Winning of the Midwest: A Social History of Midwestern Elections, 1888–1896 (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | C. Vann Woodward |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Social history |
| Institutions | |
Richard Joseph Jensen (born October 24, 1941) is an American historian and Wikipedia editor. He was a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, from 1973 to 1996. He has worked on American political, social, military, and economic history as well as historiography and quantitative and computer methods. His work focuses on Midwestern electoral history. He authored The Winning of the Midwest and Historian's Guide to Statistics.