author
Albert E. (Albert Edward) McKinley
1870–1936
A historian and teacher who helped shape how American students learned history in the early 20th century, he wrote widely used textbooks on U.S. and world history. His work ranged from colonial voting rights to the First World War, blending scholarship with classroom teaching.
1 Audiobook
A School History of the Great War
by Albert E. (Albert Edward) McKinley, Charles A. (Charles Augustin) Coulomb, Armand Jacques Gerson
About the author
Albert Edward McKinley was an American historian born in Philadelphia in 1870. He taught history at the University of Pennsylvania for many years, and sources also identify him as a former dean of the Liberal Arts College at Temple University. He died in 1936.
McKinley is best remembered for writing and co-writing history books designed for students and general readers. His titles include The Suffrage Franchise in the Thirteen English Colonies in America, A School History of the Great War, and later world history textbooks, showing both his interest in early American political life and his talent for explaining large historical events clearly.
Beyond the classroom, he played a role in the growth of social studies education. He is credited as the first president, in 1921, of the organization that later became the National Council for the Social Studies. That mix of scholarship, teaching, and public-minded education helps explain why his books continued to circulate long after they were first published.