''The American Oxonian'' (''TAO''; ISSN 0003-0295) is a journal of arts, politics and letters published triannually by of the Association of American

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, featuring articles of contemporary as well as historical relevance. Its first issue appeared in April 1914.

History

From the beginning of the

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, the experience of

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in their

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education created a bond among those who shared it and led to a desire to share their work — both academic and personal — across generations. The first attempt to create a newsletter among the American Rhodes Scholar alumni was made in 1907 with a short-lived publication called ''The Alumni Magazine''. Seven years later, a permanent successor appeared with the first issue of the ''American Oxonian'' in April 1914 and it has existed ever since.

List of editors

The following have been editors:"The ''Oxonian'' is Fifty", ''The American Oxonian'', vol L, no. 1 (January 1963), p. 20. Reprinted in vol. C, no 1 (Winter 2013), p. 24. * 1914–1921

Frank Aydelotte Franklin Ridgeway Aydelotte (October 16, 1880 – December 17, 1956) was a United States of America, U.S. educator. He became the first non-Quaker president of Swarthmore College and between 1921 and 1940 redefined the institution. He was active i ...

(

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and Brasenose, 1905) * 1921–1930 C. F. Tucker Brooke (

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and St John's, 1904) * 1930–1935

Alan Valentine Alan Chester Valentine (February 23, 1901 – July 14, 1980) was an American academic who competed on the gold-medal winning American rugby union team in the 1924 Summer Olympics, was president of the University of Rochester, and served in ...

(

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and Balliol, 1922) * 1935–1943

Crane Brinton Clarence Crane Brinton (February 25, 1898 – September 7, 1968) was an American historian of France, as well as a historian of ideas. His most famous work, '' The Anatomy of Revolution'' (1938) likened the dynamics of revolutionary movements to ...

(

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and New College, 1919) * 1943–1946

Harvie Branscomb Bennett Harvie Branscomb (December 25, 1894 – July 23, 1998) was an American theologian and academic administrator. He served as the fourth chancellor of Vanderbilt University, a private university in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1946 to 1963. P ...

(

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and Wadham, 1914) * 1946–1949

Gordon Keith Chalmers Gordon Keith Chalmers (7 February 1904 in Waukesha, Wisconsin – 8 May 1956 in Hyannis, Massachusetts) was a scholar of seventeenth-century English thought and letters, president of Rockford College and Kenyon College, and a national leader i ...

(

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and Wadham, 1926) * 1949–1955 Paul S. Havens (

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and

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. 1925) * 1955–1962

E. Wilson Lyon Elijah Wilson Lyon (1905–1989) was an American diplomatic historian who was the sixth president of Pomona College from 1941 to 1969. Born in Mississippi, he studied at the University of Mississippi and Colgate University, and was a Rhodes S ...

(

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and St. John's, 1925) * 2000-2014 Todd R. Breyfogle (

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and

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, 1988) * 2014-2019 Kathrin Day Lassila (

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and

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, 1982) * 2019-2022 Todd R. Breyfogle (

and

, 1988). * 2022-pres
Lauren C. Jackson
(Arkansas & Magdalen, 2017), editor-in-chief
Serena Alagappan
(New York & St. John's 2020), associate editor

References

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