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Preston W. Slosson

Columbia College, Class of 1913

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Preston W. Slosson

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Class of 1913 (Columbia College)

Works (79)

  1. 1916 The Decline of the Chartist Movement
  2. 1927 The Genesis of the World War, an Introduction to the Problem of War Guilt · The American Historical Review
  3. 1927 The Genesis of the World War, an Introduction to the Problem of War Guilt. By Harry Elmer Barnes, Professor of Historical Sociology, Smith College. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1926. Pp. xxvii, 750. $2.50) · The American Historical Review
  4. 1927 Twentieth Century Europe · The American Historical Review
  5. 1928 III—The German Charges Answered · Current History
  6. 1929 The Origins of the World War · The American Historical Review
  7. 1929 The Origins of the World War. By Sidney Bradshaw Fay, Professor of Modern European History in Smith College. Two volumes. (New York: Macmillan Company. 1928. Pp. xxii, 551; xiv, 577. $9.00.) · The American Historical Review
  8. 1930 Calvin Coolidge: His Place in History · Current History
  9. 1930 Graf Brockdorff-Rantzau, Wanderer zwischen zwei Welten: ein Lebensbild. Von Edgar Stern-Rubarth. (Berlin: Reimar Hobbing. 1929. Pp. 171. 7 M) · The American Historical Review
  10. 1930 II-Restatement of Germany’s Share of War Responsibility · Current History
  11. 1930 Italy. Luigi VillariA History of Italy, 1871-1915. Benedetto Crece , Cecilia M. AdyLes Transformations récentes du Droit public Italien, de la Charte de Charles-Albert à la création de l'Etat fasciste. Silvio Trentin · The Journal of Modern History
  12. 1930 The British Empire · Current History
  13. 1930 Warren G. Harding: A Revised Estimate · Current History
  14. 1931 Communist and Co-operative Colonies. Charles Gide , Ernest F. Row · The Journal of Modern History
  15. 1931 Foreign News in American Morning Newspapers: A Study of Public Opinion · The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
  16. 1931 The American Illusion (Le Grand Mirage, U. S. A.) · The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
  17. 1931 The Great Crusade and After, 1914-1928 · American Literature
  18. 1932 "Pat" Hurley: The Story of an American · The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
  19. 1932 George D. Herron and the European Settlement. Mitchell Pirie Briggs · The Journal of Modern History
  20. 1932 Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties · The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
  21. 1932 Secretary Stimson’s Task in a Troubled World · Current History
  22. 1934 Correspondance entre le comte de Gobineau et le comte de Prokesch-Osten, 1854-1876 · The American Historical Review
  23. 1934 Correspondance entre le comte de Gobineau et le comte de ProkeschOsten, 1854–1876. Publiée par Clément Serpeille de Gobineau. (Paris: Librairie Plon. 1933. Pp. iv, 407. 36 fr.) · The American Historical Review
  24. 1934 Life in the United States: A Collection of Narratives of Contemporary American Life from First-Hand Experience or Observation · The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
  25. 1936 A political and cultural history of modern Europe. Carlton J. H. Hayes · The Journal of Modern History
  26. 1937 L'alliance franco-russe: Les origines du systeme diplomatique d'avantguerre · The American Historical Review
  27. 1938 The Kaiser on Trial · The American Historical Review
  28. 1938 The Kaiser on Trial. By George Sylvester Viereck. (New York: Greystone Press. 1937. Pp. xx, 514. $3.50.) · The American Historical Review
  29. 1938 The Third Reich · The American Historical Review
  30. 1938 The Third Reich. By Henri Lichtenberger. Translated from the French and edited by Koppel S. Pinson. With a preface by Nicholas Murray Butler. (New York: Greystone Press. 1937. Pp. xi, 392. $3.00.) · The American Historical Review
  31. 1939 European History since 1870 · The American Historical Review
  32. 1939 European History since 1870. By F. Lee Benns, , Indiana University. (New York: F. S. Crofts and Company. 1938. Pp. xvi, 925. $4.50.), From Sedan to Stresa: Europe since 1870. By Victor L. Albjerg, Professor of European History at Purdue University, and Marguerite Hall Albjerg. (New York: D. Van Nostrand Company. 1937. Pp. xxii, 1187. $4.50.), A History of Europe from the Reformation to the Present Day. By Ferdinand Schevill, Professor of Modern History in the University of Chicago. New Edition. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company. 1938. Pp. xi, 819. $4.00.) and Readings in Modern and Contemporary History. By Arthur N. Cook, Professor of History, Temple University. [The Century History Series.] (New York: D. Appleton-Century Company. 1937. Pp. xvii, 361. $2.50.) · The American Historical Review
  33. 1940 Words that won the War: The Story of the Committee on Public Information, 1917-1919 · The American Historical Review
  34. 1941 The American Nation: A History of the United States from 1865 to the Present · The American Historical Review
  35. 1941 The Old Deal and the New. By Charles A. Beard and Georg H. E. Smith. (New York: Macmillan Company. 1940. Pp. 294. $2.00.), New Directions in the New World. By Adolf A. Berle, Jr. (New York: Harper and Brothers. 1940. Pp. xi, 141. $2.00.), America's Last Chance. By Albert Carr. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 1940. Pp. 328. $2.75.), The Changing Pattern of International Economic Affairs By Herbert Feis. (New York: Harper and Brothers. 1940. Pp. x, 132. $2.00.), Not by Arms Alone: Essays on our Time. By Hans Kohn, Professor of Modern European History, Smith College. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1940. Pp. ix, 161. $1.75.) and The Clash of Political Ideals: A Source Book on Democracy, Communism, and the Totalitarian State. Selected and annotated by Albert R. Chandler, Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University. (New York: D. Appleton-Century Company. 1940. Pp. xvii, 273. $2.00.) · The American Historical Review
  36. 1942 The Failures of Peace: The Search for a Negotiated Peace During the First World War. By Kent Forster. Introduction by Ernest Minor Patterson. (Washington: American Council on Public Affairs. 1941. Pp. vi, 159. Cloth $2.50, paper $2.00.) · The American Historical Review
  37. 1943 History of the English Speaking Peoples · The New England Quarterly
  38. 1948 America through British Eyes · The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
  39. 1948 The Economic History of the United States, Vol. IX. Depression Decade; From New Era through New Deal, 1929-1941 · The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
  40. 1948 The Gathering Storm · The American Historical Review
  41. 1948 The Gathering Storm. By Winston S. Churchill. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1948. Pp. xvi, 784. $6.00.) · The American Historical Review
  42. 1949 Their Finest Hour · The American Historical Review
  43. 1949 Their Finest Hour. By Winston S. Churchill. [Volume II of The Second World war.] (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1949. Pp. xvi, 751. $6.00.) · The American Historical Review
  44. 1950 The Grand Alliance · The American Historical Review
  45. 1950 The Grand Alliance. By Winston S. Churchill. [The Second World War, Volume III.] (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1950. Pp. xvi, 903. $6.00.) · The American Historical Review
  46. 1951 The Hinge of Fat · The American Historical Review
  47. 1951 The Hinge of Fate. By Winston S. Churchill. [The Second World War, Volume IV.] (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1950. Pp. xvi, 1000. $6.00.) · The American Historical Review
  48. 1952 Closing the Ring · The American Historical Review
  49. 1952 Closing the Ring. By Winston S. Churchill. [The Second World War, Volume V.] (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1951. Pp. xvi, 749. $6.00.) · The American Historical Review
  50. 1954 Triumph and Tragedy · The American Historical Review
  51. 1954 Triumph and Tragedy. By Winston S. Churchill. [The Second World War.] (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1953. Pp. xvi, 800. $6.00.) · The American Historical Review
  52. 1955 The Supreme Command · The American Historical Review
  53. 1955 The Supreme Command. By Forrest C. Pogue. [United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations.] (Washington: Department of the Army. 1954. Pp. xxi, 607. $6.50.) · The American Historical Review
  54. 1960 The Schuman Plan: A Study in Economic Cooperation, 1950-1959 · The American Historical Review
  55. 1961 The New Cambridge Modern History. David Thomson · The Journal of Modern History
  56. 1963 New Cambridge Modern History. F. H. Hinsley · The Journal of Modern History
  57. 1963 The Path to European Union. Hans A. Schmitt · The Journal of Modern History
  58. 1980 Correspondence: Evaluating Teachers · Academe
  59. 1913 A flight of fifty
  60. 1913 A teacher's report card
  61. 1913 After the war--what?
  62. 1913 America and the Anschluss question
  63. 1913 Europe since 1815
  64. 1913 Europe since 1870
  65. 1913 Fated or free?
  66. 1913 Peace with honor
  67. 1913 Pictorial history of the American people
  68. 1913 Pitt and Fox
  69. 1913 Report of three speeches on "Neutrality"
  70. 1913 Swords of peace
  71. 1913 Teacher's guide and key for The History of our world
  72. 1913 Tests to accompany World history
  73. 1913 The great crusade and after
  74. 1913 The History of Our World
  75. 1913 The problem of Austro-German union
  76. 1913 War returns to the world, 1938-1941
  77. 1913 Why we are at war
  78. 1913 Workbook to accompany World history
  79. 1913 World history

Primary sources

The Columbia Daily Spectator

1912-03-14 EDITOR SPEAKS BEFORE PHILO addressed Philolexian Society
EDITOR SPEAKS BEFORE PHILO Tells of Magazine Work Dr. Edwin E. Slosson, Literary Editor of the "Independent", addressed the Philolexian Society last evening on literary opportunities,—particularly those which are opened up to college men in the field of periodical literature. lie emphasized the great and varied store of information current in University halls which is crying for popular presentation. He described the technique of this presentation—how skillful handling can make highly technical subjects palatable to the general reader, but how the material to be treated remains of first importance. As the power-houses of new ideas, the bearing of Universities upon current literature is very vital, and it is for University men to realize their obligation and their opportunity to make this bearing increasingly so. Magazine men regard themselves as engaged as it were, in a…

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1913-01-14 JOURNALISM SOCIETY MEETS Fourth Year Men Bid Farwell to Departing Member at the Initial Gathering of "The Staff." [ARTICLE]
JOURNALISM SOCIETY MEETS Fourth Year Men Bid Farwell to Departing Member at the Initial Gathering of "The Staff." To inaugurate "The Staff," the fourthyear club of the School of Journalism, and to bid farewell to one of its members who is called back to China, the Class of igi3 of the new School met last night in the Faculty Club. Hollington K. Tong, who came to CCKluinbia from the University of Missouri, has been compelled to return to his home in Shanghai. Dr. Williams, the Director of the School, closed the last speech of the evening with warm references to Tong's brilliant work, particularly in the reporting course, and the club gave him the first Columbia cheer which the graduates of nearly a dozen colleges had . attempted. V - • Dinner was followed by* an-illuminat-ing discussion of the management of a newspaper by William Dudley Foulke, '69, '7iL, formerly president of the…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1913-01-14 →

1913-02-20 PROFESSOR SPEAKS TO PHILO. Oratory and Its Principles. debate team member
PROFESSOR SPEAKS TO PHILO. Oratory and Its Principles. Philolexian Society after a short business session last evening in which eight new members were elected, was entertained by a talk from Professor Jacoby who spoke very interestingly on the modern trend of oratory with its underlying principles. Next Wednesday evening a joint team of Philo and Barnard will debate Fordham University at that place on the Panama Canal Toll question. Justice Gofif, will probably be one of the three judges. The team to represent Columbia consists of P. W. Slosson 'l3, H. B. Henderson 'l3, D. Campbell 'l5. C. F. Milheiser 'l3, alternate.

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1913-02-20 →

Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916)

Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) Leaf / page 237

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Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) Leaf / page 239

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Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) Leaf / page 995

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Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) Leaf / page 1000

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