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5 days ago · Dorothy Ross, pioneering historian of the origins of modern social science and a professor emerita in the Johns Hopkins University Department of History, died last week. She was 87. Ross's research focused on historical writing in the social sciences, revealing insights from the history of fields including psychology, economics, political ...
Dorothy Ross (August 13, 1936 – May 2024) was an American historian and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She attended Smith College and Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Virginia before Johns Hopkins. Her books include the G. Stanley Hall: The Psychologist as Prophet ...
Jul 19, 2011 · The current edition of The American Historical Review features a compelling forum on “Historians and the Question of ‘Modernity.'”. Of particular interest to scholars of U.S. intellectual history is Dorothy Ross’s contribution to the forum, “American Modernities, Past and Present.”.
Dorothy Ross argues that recent historians have emphasized Abraham Lincoln’s opposition to slavery to the neglect of his ardent nationalism.
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Dorothy Ross is an American historian and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She attended Smith College and Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Virginia before Johns Hopkins.
