Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1915, June 17 | Born, Washington, D.C. |
| 1938 | Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. |
| 1938-1940 | Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. |
| 1940-1944 | Staff writer on national affairs, Time magazine (two periods for a total of about four years). |
| 1941 | Edited Historiography and Urbanization: Essays in American History in Honor of W. Stull Holt. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press |
| 1942-1985 | Instructor, later professor, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
| 1943 | Published Charles J. Boneparte, Patrician Reformer: His Earlier Career. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press Published John Bach McMaster, American Historian. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press |
| 1944 | Married Betty Ann [Heilbrun?] (divorced 1945) |
| 1947 | Edited with Erling M. Hunt and Frederick C. Lane The World's History. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co. |
| 1950 | Married Anne Metzger (divorced circa 1951) |
| 1952 | Published Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform. New York: Alfred A. Knopf; awarded the Bancroft Prize for distinguished American history Married Joanna Ruth Jackson (died circa 1983) |
| 1953-1954 | Lecturer in Europe for State Department |
| 1956 | Published The Crucial Decade: America, 1945-1955. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Lecturer in India for State Department |
| 1959-1967 | Moderator, “Open Mind,” NBC Television Network (show won New York Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award, 1962, 1966) |
| 1962 | Appointed Rollins Professor of History, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. Appointed McCosh Fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
| 1962-1969 | President, Society of American Historians |
| 1964-1966 | Special consultant to President Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 1966 | Published The Crucial Decade—and After: America, 1945-1960. New York: Alfred A. Knopf |
| 1969 | Published The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf |
| 1975 | Guest commentator, “Morning News,” CBS Television Network |
| 1985 | Emeritus status, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
| 1989, Feb. 19 | Died, Princeton, N.J. |