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Arthur Lyon Cross (November 14, 1873 – June 21, 1940) was an American
Arthur Lyon Cross Papers 1897-1940
Bentley Historical Library
Dr. A.L. Cross To Lecture
1873 births 1940 deaths 19th-century American historians Harvard University alumni University of Michigan faculty 20th-century American historians {{US-historian-stub
Arthur Lyon Cross (November 14, 1873 – June 21, 1940) was an American historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...
specializing in English history
The territory today known as England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated.; "Earliest footprints outside Africa discovered in Norfolk" (2014). B ...
. Born in Portland, Maine, he received his doctorate
A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...
from Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher lear ...
and joined the faculty of the University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...
in 1899.
In 1914, his best-known work, ''A History of England and Greater Britain'', was published. His other works include ''The Anglican Episcopate and the American Colonies'', which was based on his Ph.D. thesis, and ''A Recent History of English Laws''.
Sources
* History of the University of Michigan, 1906, by Burke Aaron Hinsdale, p. 357Arthur Lyon Cross Papers 1897-1940
Bentley Historical Library
Dr. A.L. Cross To Lecture
1873 births 1940 deaths 19th-century American historians Harvard University alumni University of Michigan faculty 20th-century American historians {{US-historian-stub