Charles Ramsdell Lingley

Born in 1877, Charles Ramsdell Lingley was an American historian who later taught at Dartmouth College. He is identified as a professor of history there in editions of The United States Since the Civil War, the book for which he is most often remembered.

Lingley wrote about the United States in the decades after the Civil War, covering Reconstruction, the rise of industry, and the social and political changes that shaped the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His writing is notable for aiming at a broad overview of national life rather than a narrow specialist study, which helped make his work useful to students and general readers.

He died in 1934. While detailed biographical information appears limited in the sources available here, his name has endured through his historical writing, especially The United States Since the Civil War.