Benjamin quarles biography

Benjamin Arthur Quarles was an American historian, administrator, educator, and writer, whose scholarship centered on black American social and political history.
Benjamin Arthur Quarles (January 23, 1904 – November 16, 1996) was an American historian, administrator, educator, and writer, whose scholarship centered on.
Noted historian, scholar, and educator Benjamin Author Quarles was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 23, 1904.

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Quarles, Benjamin Arthur 1904–1996

Historian

Academic Life Called to Him

Groundbreaking Historical Scholarship

Cast Another Light On The Past

Selected writings

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Benjamin Quarles was a quiet trailblazer. He was the first to give detailed attention to the contributions to America made by the unsung black soldiers of the American Revolution and the Civil War; the uneducated slaves who picked the country’s cotton and refined the sugar that sweetened life for others, and the brave abolitionists whose efforts to steer their own path had been forgotten over time.

Tracing the lives of this large population took a great deal of effort. It would have been far easier for him simply to tell the stories of individual black achievers, since most of them had the education to leave clues about the way they had lived their lives. But in most cases, the slaves and the black soldiers under Quarles’ historical microscope had not been as lucky. Many of them had lived in an enforced illiteracy that made it impossible to record their movements and their activities. For th

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Benjamin Arthur Quarles

American historian (1904–1996)

Benjamin Arthur Quarles
Born	January 23, 1904 Boston, Massachusetts. U.S.
Died	November 16, 1996(1996-11-16) (aged 92) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation	History professor
Education	B.A., M.A., PhD
Alma mater	Shaw University University of Wisconsin–Madison
Notable works	The Negro in the Making of America
Notable awards	Rosenwald Fellowship (1938, 1945), Carnegie Corporation Advancement Teaching Fellowship (1944), Social Science Research Council Fellowship (1957), Guggenheim Fellowship (1959), Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History Lifetime Achievement Award (1996)
Spouse	Vera Bullock (1951) Ruth Brett (1996)
Children	Pamela Quarles Roberta Quarles

Benjamin Arthur Quarles (January 23, 1904 – November 16, 1996) was an American historian, administrator, educator, and writer, whose scholarship centered on black American social and political history. Major books by Quarles include The Negro in the Civil War (1953), The Negro in the Americ

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One of the most distinguished of his generation of African American historians, Benjamin A. Quarles received his PhD in our department in 1940. He worked with U.S. historian William B. Hesseltine and published his first article in the Journal of Negro History in 1938. His dissertation, a biography of Frederick Douglass, was published to critical acclaim in 1948 and was followed by a number of prominent monographs and textbooks that put African Americans at the center of American history.

Quarles taught for many years at Morgan State University in Baltimore, where the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute is named in his honor. His many distinctions included a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1958 and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History Lifetime Achievement award in 1996.

Sources: “Benjamin A. Quarles (1904-1996),” BlackPast.org; August Meier, “Benjamin Quarles and the Historiography of Black America,” Civil War History 26 (June 1980): 101-116; Jean Thompson and M. Dion Thompson, “A Scholar, a Writer, a Gentleman Historian,” Balt