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Becker, Carl Lotus

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Born: 1873 AD
Died: 1945 AD, at 71 years of age.

Nationality: American
Categories: Historian

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1873 - Born on the 7th of September in Waterloo, Iowa, USA.

1902 - He began a teaching career at the University of Kansas.

1907 - Educated at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University majoring in history.

1915 - Wrote first book The Beginnings of the American People.

1917 - Served as teacher in Cornell University.

1918 - Followed by the excellent The Eve of the Revolution.

1922 - The Declaration of Independence.

1932 - He is best known for The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers, four lectures on The Enlightenment delivered at Yale University.

1935 - Everyman His Own Historian.

1945 - Died on 10th April in Ithaca, New York, USA.

 

 

 





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  • "All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any."
  • "Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept."
  • "My own mind is my own church."

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The Declaration of Independence, a study in the history of political ideas
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The heavenly city of the eighteenth century philosophers, (The Storr lectures)
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Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly...

Everyman his own historian;: Essays on history and politics, (Quadrangle paperbacks, 33)
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The History Of Political Parties In The Province Of New York, 1760-1776
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Freedom and responsibility in the American way of life;: Five lectures delivered on the William W. Cook Foundation at the University of Michigan, December 1944
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