Higham, John

Biographical Note: John Higham is an author and professor emeritus of history, The Johns Hopkins University.

He was born in Jamaica, N.Y. in 1920 and received the B.A. from Hopkins in 1941. Higham received the Ph. D from the University of Wisconsin in 1949 and taught at Rutgers, Columbia, U.C.L.A., and the University of Michigan before his appointment to the faculty of Hopkins in 1971. In 1975, he was named to the John Martin Vincent Chair in History, a position he held until his retirement in 1989. Higham is a specialist in the history of American culture and society in the 19th and 20th centuries and is the author of "Strangers in the Land (1955) which won the Dunning Prize of the American Historical Society. John Higham resides in Baltimore, MD.

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