On this page are included the "Biographical Sketches" for each of the contributors from the original collection. These are unaltered, that the date of death is noted, where I have been able to find it, and a link to an external web site with more information is given.
Also, the editor's foreword and introduction to the first volume and the full autobiographical essay of Simon J. Finkelstein have been placed on the web site, and are linked from here.
edited by Louis Finkelstein Harper and Brothers, 1948. xxvi+276 pps.
Born Atlantic, Iowa 1885; studies Iowa State College, University of Wisconsin; married and has two daughters; began as farmer 1907, various posts as county agent and extension work leader in Montana until 1922; taught agricultural economics to 1933; in charge of division of farm management and cost accounting, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1924-26, prior to returning to Montana State College; consultant on large-scale wheat farming, U.S.S.R., 1929; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, July 2, 1934, and Under Secretary of Agriculture, January 2, 1937 to February 1, 1940; since then director of Co-operative Extension Work.
Born in Lancaster, Wisconsin, 1894; studied at University of Notre Dame, University of Poitiers, Columbia University; married and has a son and a foster-daughter; served as sergeant in U.S. Army Intelligence Corps in World War I; taught English at Notre Dame, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, St. Joseph's College for Women; was an editor of the Commonweal 1923-29. Fellow, Social Science Research Council for the study of Germany, 1937-39; president, Hunter College of the City of New York since 1940; author, co-editor, and translator, numerous books on contemporary history, literature, and Catholicism; U.S. delegate to U.N.E.S.C.O.
Born near Homer, Nebraska, 1874; studied University of Nebraska, Columbia; married and has seven children; served as private, Co. K. in Nebraska Volunteers, May to October 1898; taught economics and political science at Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University, University of Nebraska, of Texas, of Chicago, Leland Stanford, Cornell, Yale; editor of The New Republic, 1917-23 and of various quarterlies and encyclopedias; director of New School for Social Research, 1923-46; president emeritus 1946---, chairman of its graduate faculty of political science since 1933; chairman, New York State War Commission against Discrimination, 1944-46; vice chairman, Temporary Commission on Discrimination, 1946; member, New York Strate Commission on a State University, 1946---.
Born in Valentine, Nebraska in 1888; studied at the University of Michigan; has one son; worked on newspapers in Omaha and Detroit, 1907-13; taught rhetoric and journalism at the University of Michigan, 1913-17; served with the American and International Red Cross in Washington and overseas, 1918-24; director, California Association for Adult Education, 1929-33; professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University since 1934; consellor on public affairs, Columbia Broadcasting System.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1891, studied there at the University, at the Marine BIological Laboratory, Woods Hole, and the Harvard Medical School; married and has a son who served with the U.S. Army; was a private in the Medical Corps of the Army from 1917-19 and a lieutenant from 1919-21; having taught and worked at a number of universities and hospitals, he is now attending physician in hematology at Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago; has made numerous discoveries in hematology and written extensively on the subject.
Born in Greenfield, New York; attended Syracuse University; postgraduate work at Columbia University; after teaching in grade schools and serving as principal of the high school in Rhinebeck, New York, began teaching history and political science at Syracuse University in 1914, and remained there until leaving for Columbia University as assistant professor of political science in 1917; professor of history since 1931; dean of Columbia College since 1943; member of Board of Higher Education of New York City since 1938; trustee and director of numerous educational organizations; author of many works on history; editor and co-editor of many others.
edited by Louis Finkelstein, Institute for Religious and Social Studies. 1953. xii+296 pps.
Born Cissna Park, Illinois. Penn College, Hartford Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School. Married, two daughters. Ordained to ministry of Society of Friends, 1913. Professor of Biblical Literature, Earlham College, 1923-1929. Executive secretary, American Friends Service Committee, 1929-1950. Died 1985.