John Higham | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 26, 1920 Jamaica, Queens, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 26, 2003 (aged 82) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Education | Johns Hopkins University (BA) Yale University (MA) University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD) |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Spouse |
Eileen Moss (m. 1948) |
| Military career | |
| Service | United States Army Air Force |
| Battles / wars | World War II |
John William Higham (October 26, 1920 – July 26, 2003) was an American historian, scholar of American culture, historiography and ethnicity.[1] In the 1950s he was a prominent critic of consensus history. Historian Dorothy Ross says, "The multi-ethnic environment of his early life in Queens, the wartime optimism, and his immersion in Progressive history, with its fundamental faith in American democracy, gave him a vision of an egalitarian, cosmopolitan, American nationalism in which he never lost faith."[2]