Historians Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter

Living place: New York

Birthday: 6-8-1916

Population of US 1916: 101,961,000

Global rank: #99592

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Who is Historians Richard Hofstadter?
Renowned American historian, author and public intellectual of the mid-twentieth century. His notable works include The Paranoid Style in American Politics, The Age of Reformation, and Anti-Intellectuals in American Life. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice. first, in 1956, for a book on the populist movements of the 1890s, and again in 1964 for a work on the subject of American intellectuals.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He was a member of the Young Communist League in his early twenties. He attended the University of Buffalo, where he studied history and philosophy.

Family life info

His marriage to his first wife, Felice Swados, lasted until her death in 1945. He later married Beatrice Kevitt.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Historians Richard Hofstadter?
History Eric Foner was once his student.

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When was Historians Richard Hofstadter born?
Richard Hofstadter was born in 6-8-1916, death year is , at the age of 108.
Where is Historians Richard Hofstadter's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Richard Hofstadter was born in New York, . is a Historians, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Richard Hofstadter's global rank is 99592 and whose rank is 85 in list of famous Historians. Population of US in 1916 is about 101,961,000 persons.
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Events in 1916 and 6-8

Events in US in the birth year of Richard Hofstadter

  • Congress authorizes a plan to expand the U.S. armed forces over the next five years (June).
  • Montana voters elect 36-year-old Republican Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress.
  • U.S. National Park Service in the Department of the Interior is created by act of Congress (Aug. 20).
  • Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the country at 46 Amboy St., Brooklyn.

Birthday Richard Hofstadter (6-8) in history

  • Day 6-8 year 1806: Emperor Francis II abdicated, marking the end of the Roman Empire.
  • Day 6-8 year 1825: Bolivia declared its independence from Peru.
  • Day 6-8 year 1926: Gertrude Ederle became the first U.S. woman to swim across the English Channel.
  • Day 6-8 year 1945: The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
  • Day 6-8 year 1962: Jamaica gained its independence within the Britain Commonwealth.
  • Day 6-8 year 1965: President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed the poll taxes and literacy tests that had restricted black voter registration in the South.
  • Day 6-8 year 1997: British prime minister Tony Blair and Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams meet—the first time in 76 years that a British leader and an IRA ally meet.
  • Day 6-8 year 2003: Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy to replace Gray Davis as governor of California to Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.
  • Day 6-8 year 2012: Curiosity, a SUV-size rover, successfully landed on Mars. The rover's research has been planned for the next two years, but since Curiosity's electricity is powered by plutonium, it could be operational and provide insight into Mars for decades to come
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