Herbert L. Osgood
Herbert Levi Osgood was an American historian of colonial American history. As a professor at Columbia University he directed numerous dissertations of scholars who became major historians. Osgood was a leader of the Imperial historians who studied, and often praised, the inner workings of the British Empire in the 18th century.
Osgood was born in Maine, and attended Amherst College, from which he graduated in 1877, having studied under John W. Burgess. He received his Masters from Amherst in 1880, took graduate classes at Yale, and spent a year in Berlin, before returning to the United States to teach at Brooklyn High School and resume graduate studies at Columbia under Burgess, who had recently moved there. Osgood received his doctorate from Columbia in 1889. He had already published two wellreceived articles in the journal Political Science Quarterly, which Burgess had founded in 1886 Scientific Socialism , and Scientific Anarchism the two articles were then put together as his doctoral dissertation.
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