Albert Bushnell Hart

Albert Bushnell Hart
Born	(1854-07-01)July 1, 1854 Clarksville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	July 16, 1943(1943-07-16) (aged 89) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Academic background
Education	Harvard University (AB) University of Paris University of Berlin University of Freiburg (PhD)
Thesis	The Coercive Powers of the Government of the United States of America (1883)
Doctoral advisor	Hermann Eduard von Holst
Academic work
Doctoral students	W. E. B. Du Bois Frederic L. Paxson Herman Vandenburg Ames Carter G. Woodson
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Albert Bushnell Hart (July 1, 1854 – July 16, 1943) was an American historian, writer, and editor based at Harvard University. One of the first generation of professionally trained historians in the United States, a prolific author and editor of historical works, Albert Bushnell Hart became, as Samuel Eliot Morison described him, "The Grand Old Man" of American history, looking the part with his "patriarchal full beard and flowing moustaches."^[1]