Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd papers, 1895-1968

Biographical Note

Date	Event
1892, Sept. 26	Born, New Albany, Ind.
1914	B.A. Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
1914-1918	Editor, Publishers' Weekly
1919	Manager, advertising and publicity, Charles Scribner's Sons
1920	Assistant publisher, B. W. Huebsch, Inc., and the Freeman
1921	Married Helen Merrell (died 1982)
1922	Missionary and writer, Elk Basin, Wyo., oil fields
1923	B.D., Union Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y.
1923-1926	Director, Small City Study, Institute of Social and Religious Research
1926-1927	Assistant director, Division of Educational Research, Commonwealth Fund
1927-1931	Assistant to chairman, later permanent secretary, Social Sciences Research Council
1929	Published with Helen Merrell Lynd Middletown, a Study in Contemporary American Culture. New York: Harcourt, Brace
1931	Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1931-1960	Professor of sociology, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1937	Published with Helen Merrell Lynd Middletown in Transition; a Study in Cultural Conflicts. New York: Harcourt, Brace
1939	Published Knowledge for What? The Place of Social Science in American Culture. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
1970, Nov. 1	Died, New York, N.Y.

Date	Event
1896, Mar. 17	Born, La Grange, Ill.
1919	B.A., Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
1921	M.A., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Married Robert Staughton Lynd (died 1970)
1929	Published with Robert Staughton Lynd Middletown, a Study in Contemporary American Culture. New York: Harcourt, Brace
1929-1964	Engaged in research and writing Lecturer, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y, and Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y.
1937	Published with Robert Staughton Lynd Middletown in Transition; a Study in Cultural Conflicts. New York: Harcourt, Brace
1944	Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1945	Published England in the Eighteen-Eighties: Toward a Social Basis for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press Published Field Work in College Education. New York: Columbia University Press
1958	Published On Shame and the Search for Identity. New York: Harcourt, Brace
1965	Published Toward Discovery. Bronxville, N.Y.: Sarah Lawrence College
1982	Died, Warren, Ohio