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    • James Harvey Robinson

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    American historian

    James Harvey Robinsonwas an American scholar of history who, with Charles Austin Beard, founded New History, a disciplinary approach that attempts to use history to understand contemporary problems, which greatly broadened the scope of historical scholarship in relation to the social sciences.

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    About the James Harvey Robinson

    James Harvey Robinsonwas an American scholar of history who, with Charles Austin Beard, founded New History, a disciplinary approach that attempts to use history to understand contemporary problems, which greatly broadened the scope of historical scholarship in relation to the social sciences.

    5 Quotes by James Harvey Robinson

    1. 1.

      Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

      James Harvey Robinson

      American historian

    2. 2.

      Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

      James Harvey Robinson

      American historian

    3. 3.

      We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.

      James Harvey Robinson

      American historian

    4. 4.

      We find it hard to believe that other people’s thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

      James Harvey Robinson

      American historian

    5. 5.

      Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

      James Harvey Robinson

      American historian