Author(s): Binford, Paul E.

Descriptors: *Historians; *Recognition (Achievement); *Scholarly Writing; *Scholarship; Higher Education; Secondary Education; Social Studies

Identifiers: Robinson (James Harvey); Biodata; New School for Social Research NY

Abstract: This paper profiles James Harvey Robinson, an important scholar of history and social issues. The paper presents a biographical sketch of Harvey's early life and education and discusses his teaching and scholarly work, including his co-founding (with Charles A. Beard) of the New School for Social Research (New York) in 1919, noting that Robinson championed the use of history as an instrument for change. It focuses on Robinson's writings, especially his contribution to the 1916 "The Social Studies in Secondary Education: A Six-Year Program Adapted Both to the 6-3-3 and the 8-4 Plans of Organization and Report of the Committee on Social Studies of the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education of the National Education Association."

Contains 66 notes, 12 primary, and 4 secondary references. (BT) Notes: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies (San Antonio, TX, November 16-19, 2000).