author
Lothrop Stoddard
1883–1950
A Harvard-trained historian and journalist, he became widely known in the early 20th century for books on race, immigration, and world politics. His work is now chiefly remembered as part of the history of eugenics and scientific racism in the United States.
2 Audiobooks
The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy
by Lothrop Stoddard
The New World of Islam
by Lothrop Stoddard
About the author
Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1883, he was the son of writer and lecturer John Lawson Stoddard. He studied at Harvard, graduating magna cum laude before later earning a Ph.D. in history there in 1914.
He wrote as a historian, journalist, and political commentator, publishing books such as The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy and The Revolt Against Civilization. In the 1920s and 1930s, his writing reached a wide audience, especially among readers interested in immigration policy and global affairs.
Today, his legacy is controversial. His books promoted white supremacist, eugenic, and deeply racist ideas, and he is most often discussed as an example of how those ideas were presented as mainstream intellectual arguments in parts of the early 20th century. He died in Washington, D.C., in 1950.