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Theodore Clarke Smith
1870–1960
A longtime Williams College historian, he wrote clear, wide-ranging books on American politics and conflict, including a well-known study of the wars between Britain and America. His work also reached beyond the classroom through curriculum reform and a major two-volume life of James A. Garfield.
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The Wars Between England and America
by Theodore Clarke Smith
About the author
Born in 1870 and active as a historian in the early 20th century, he taught American history at Williams College from 1903 to 1938. Sources also describe him as an educational reformer who served for many years on Williams's Committee on Curriculum and Advisory Committee.
His best-known books include The Wars Between England and America (1914), a concise history of the conflicts that shaped relations between Britain and the United States, and a two-volume biography, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield (1925). Other cataloged works include Parties and Slavery, 1850–1859 and a bibliography for the American Statesmen series.
Archival records at Williams show that his papers include letters, lecture material, curriculum notes, and drafts of an autobiographical work titled Educational Reminiscences, 1870-1947. No suitable verified portrait image was confirmed from the sources reviewed, so no profile image is included here.