Shepard B. Clough
Shepard B. Clough | |
|---|---|
| Born | Shepard Bancroft Clough December 9, 1901 |
| Died | June 7, 1990 (aged 88) |
| Awards | Rome Prize (1922) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | A History of the Flemish Movement in Belgium: A Study in Nationalism (1930) |
| Carlton J. H. Hayes | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economic history |
| Institutions | |
Doctoral students | Stanley G. Payne |
Shepard Bancroft Clough (December 6, 1901 – June 7, 1990) was an American economic historian. He was a professor of European history at Columbia University.[1]
Biography
[edit]Clough was born on December 6, 1901, in Bloomington, Indiana, and moved to Lebanon, New Hampshire, in 1903.[2] He graduated from Colby Academy in 1919 and received his bachelor's degree from Colgate University in 1923. He then did his postgraduate work at the Sorbonne and Heidelberg. He received his doctorate from Columbia University for a thesis on the Flemish nationalist movement prepared under the supervision of Carlton J. H. Hayes in 1930, and began teaching there in 1928.[1][3][4]
During World War II, Clough was in the economic studies division of the United States Department of State, lectured at the U.S. Army School of Military Government at the University of Virginia, and worked for the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations, a short-lived predecessor to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.[1] He was among the five founding members of the Economic History Association, established with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1940.[5] He became a Knight in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and a chevalier of the Legion of Honour after the war.[1]
Clough was the author of a number of books on European economic history and civilizational cycles.[2][6] He was also a visiting professor at Sciences Po and the University of Grenoble.[7] The lectures he gave in Europe were published as The American Way in 1953.[8]
According to historian Loren Graham, Clough was firmly opposed to Columbia's Department of History hiring women as professors, and it was only as he was nearing his retirement in 1969 that Nina Garsoïan became the first woman to receive tenure there.[9]
Clough served as the president of the Economic History Association in 1969.[5] He retired in 1970 from teaching. He died on June 7, 1990, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 "Shepard Clough, 88; Professor and Writer Of European History". The New York Times. 1990-06-09. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- 1 2 "Clough, Shepard Bancroft, 1900-1990 | Dartmouth Library Archives & Manuscripts". archives-manuscripts.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- ↑ Clough, Shepard B. (1930), A History of the Flemish Movement in Belgium: A Study in Nationalism, New York: Richard R. Smith, p. vi
- ↑ "A history of the Flemish movement in Belgium; a study in nationalism". Columbia University Library. Archived from the original on July 25, 2026. Retrieved July 25, 2026.
- 1 2 Michael Haupert, ed. (December 2007), "Past Presidents of the EHA: Herbert Heaton" (PDF), The Newsletter of the Economic History Association, 31: 16
- ↑ Gilpin, Robert (1981). War and Change in World Politics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-27376-3.
- ↑ "Indiana authors and their books 1917-1966". webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- ↑ Bornet, Vaughn Davis (November 5, 2017). "A Golden Age for American History Scholarship? It Was the Mid-1950s". History News Network. Archived from the original on July 25, 2026. Retrieved July 25, 2026.
- ↑ Pae, Christina (January 23, 2017). "The Reminiscences of Loren R. Graham". Harriman Institute. Archived from the original on June 22, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2026.
- 1901 births
- 1990 deaths
- People from Bloomington, Indiana
- Colgate University alumni
- Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- United States Department of State officials
- Columbia University faculty
- 20th-century American historians
- Knights of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Knights of the Legion of Honour