Edward Raymond Turner

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Edward Raymond Turner

1881–1929

A clear, engaging historian of Europe and the British Empire, he wrote widely used survey histories while also producing influential scholarship on slavery, suffrage, and Anglo-Irish relations. His work helped bring serious historical research to a broad readership in the early twentieth century.

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Slavery in Pennsylvania A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910

Slavery in Pennsylvania A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910

by Edward Raymond Turner

About the author

Born in Baltimore on May 28, 1881, Edward Raymond Turner studied at St. John's College and then at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned his doctorate. He went on to teach history at several institutions, including the University of Michigan, before returning to Baltimore to hold the chair of European history at Johns Hopkins.

Turner wrote on a wide range of subjects, but he is especially remembered for combining careful scholarship with an accessible style. His books on European history reached many students and general readers, while works such as Slavery in Pennsylvania and studies of women's suffrage and Anglo-Irish relations show the breadth of his interests.

Contemporaries remembered him as an able lecturer and a devoted historian with strong ties to Baltimore and Johns Hopkins. He died there on December 31, 1929, after a brief illness, leaving behind a body of work that connected academic history with the wider reading public.