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Louis Filler (August 27, 1911 – December 22, 1998) was a Russian-born American teacher and a widely published scholar specializing in
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. He was born in
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, in the
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of the
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(now in
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), to
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parents, and emigrated to the United States in 1914. Raised in Philadelphia, Filler attended Central High School. He received his bachelor's degree from
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in 1934, and his master's degree (1941) and doctorate (1943) from
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. He worked as a historian for the
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from 1942 to 1944 and then as a research historian for the Quartermaster General in Washington, D.C., from 1944 to 1946. He taught at
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in
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, first as professor of American civilization from 1953 until 1976, and then as Distinguished University Professor of American Culture and Society, beginning in 1976. His scholarly writings focused on muckrakers,
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, and other
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s. He also edited anthologies and other scholarly works. He was a
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at the
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, England, for the academic year 1950-1951 and at the
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in Germany for the academic year 1979–80. He lived in Ovid, MichiganBelfry Publications Incorporated - Ovid - MiCompanyDB.com
Retrieved 2017-05-13. and died on December 22, 1998, in
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.


Awards

*Fellow, Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, 1953–54 *Ohioana Book Award in nonfiction, 1961, for ''Crusade against Slavery''


Works


Books

* ''Crusaders for American Liberalism: The Story of the Muckrakers'', 1939 ff. (1993 as ''The Muckrakers'') * ''Randolph Bourne'', 1943, 1965
''Laundry and Related Activities of the Quartermaster General'', United States Government Printing Office, 1946
* ''The Crusade Against Slavery, 1830-1860'', 1960 ff * ''A Dictionary of American Social Reform'', 1963, 1970; revised 1982 as ''A Dictionary of American Social Change'' * ''The Unknown Edwin Markham: His Mystery and Its Significance'', 1966 * ''Muckraking and Progressivism: an Interpretive Bibliography'', 1976 * ''Appointment at Armageddon: Muckraking and Progressivism in American Life'', 1976; ''Muckraking and Progressivism in the American Tradition'', new intro, 1996 * ''Voice of the Democracy: A Critical Biography of David Graham Phillips: Journalist, Novelist, Progressive'', 1978 * ''Abolition and Social Justice in the Era of Reform'', 1972 * ''Crusade Against Slavery: Friends, Foes, and Reforms 1820-1860'', 1986 * ''Dictionary of American Conservatism'', 1987 * ''Distinguished Shades: Americans Whose Lives Live On'', 1992


Edited works

* ''The New Stars: Life and Labor in Old Missouri'', Manie Kendley Morgan, 1940 * ''Mr. Dooley: Now and Forever'', Finley Peter Dunne, 1954 * ''The Removal of the Cherokee Nation: Manifest Destiny or National Dishonor?'', 1962, 1977 * ''The World of Mr. Dooley'', Finley Peter Dunne, 1962 * ''Late Nineteenth-Century Liberalism: Representative Selections 1880-1900'', 1962, 1978 * ''The Anxious Years - America in the Nineteen Thirties: A Collection of Contemporary Writings'', 1963; as ''American Anxieties'', 1993 * ''Horace Mann and Others'', Robert L. Straker, 1963 * ''Democrats and Republicans: Ten Years of the Republic'', Harry Thurston Peck, 1964 * ''A History of the People of the United States'', John Bach McMaster, 1964 * ''The President Speaks: From McKinley to Lyndon Johnson'', 1964 * ''Horace Mann on the Crisis in Education'', 1965; Spanish translation 1972 * ''Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom'', 1965 * ''The Ballad of the Gallows-Bird'', Edwin Markham, 1967 * ''Old Wolfville: Chapters from the Fiction of A.H. Lewis'', 1968 * ''Slavery in the United States'', 1972, 1998 * ''Abolition and Social Justice'', 1972 * ''From Populism to Progressivism'', 1978, anthology * ''A Question of Quality'', series : ''Popularity and Value in Modern Creative Writing'' and ''Seasoned Authors for a New Season'', 1976–80 * ''Vanguards and Followers: Youth in the American Tradition'', 1978, 1995 * ''An Ohio Schoolmistress: the Memoirs of Irene Hardy'', 1980 * ''Contemporaries: Portraits in the Progressive Era'', David Graham Phillips, 1981 * ''The President in the 20th Century'', 1983


Introductions

* Ernest Lacy, ''Chatterton'', 1952 * John Bach McMaster, ''The Acquisition of Political, Social and Industrial Rights of Man in America'', 1961 * S.S. McClure, ''My Autobiography'', 1962 * G. Lowes Dickinson,''A Modern Symposium'', 1963 * Robert Lincoln Straker, ''Horace Mann and Others: Chapters from the History of Antioch College'', 1963 * Svend Petersen, ''A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections'', 1963 * Bernard Mandel, ''Samuel Gompers: A Biography'', 1963 * John Bach McMaster, ''The Political Depravity of the Founding Fathers'', 1964 * William Henry Smith, ''A Political History of Slavery'', 1966 * Ulrich B. Phillips, ''Georgia and States' Rights'', 1967 *
Madeleine B. Stern Madeleine Bettina Stern (July 1, 1912 – August 18, 2007), born in New York, New York, was an independent scholar and rare book dealer. She graduated from Barnard College in 1932 with a B.A. A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A ...
, ''The Pantarch: A Biography of Stephen Pearl Andrews'', 1968 * David Graham Phillips, ''The Cost'', 1969 * David Graham Phillips, ''The Deluge'', 1969 * David Graham Phillips, ''The Grain of Dust'', 1970 * Brand Whitlock, ''Forty Years of It'', 1970 * William Hapgood, ''The Columbia Conserve Company: An Experiment in Workers' Management and Ownership'', 1975 * Benjamin A. Botkin, ''The American People: Stories, Legends, Folklore, Tales, Traditions and Songs'', 1998


Also in published volumes

* "Movements to Abolish the Death Penalty in the United States," in ''Murder and the Death Penalty'', 1952 * "The Dilemma, So-Called, of the American Liberal," in ''Antioch Review Anthology'', 1953 * "The Muckrakers: in Flower and in Failure," in ''Essays in American Historiography: in Honor of Allan Nevins'', 1960 * "Anti-Slavery Movements in the United States," in ''Collier’s Encyclopedia'', 1962 * "Slavery and Anti-Slavery," in ''Main Problems in American History'', 1964 * "A Tale of Two Authors: Theodore Dreiser and David Graham Phillips," in ''New Voices in American Studies'', 1966


Among other articles and reviews

* "Susan Lenox: an American Odyssey," ''Accent'', Fall 1940 * "Wolfville: the Fiction of A.H. Lewis," ''New Mexico] Quarterly'', Spring, 1943 * "Murder in Gramercy Park," ''Antioch Review'' 11, December 1946 * "Edward Bellamy and the Spirited Unrest," '' American Journal of Economics and Sociology'', April 1948 * "Randolph Bourne: Reality and Myth," ''The Humanist'', Spring 1951 * "Harry Alan Potamkin," ''Midwest Journal'', Winter 1951 * "Why Historians Ignore Folklore," '' Midwest Folklore'', Summer 1954 * "John Chamberlain and American Liberalism," ''Colorado Quarterly'', Fall 1957 * "The Question of Social Significance," ''Union Review 1:1:66-71'', 1962 * "John M. Harlan", Leon Friedman and Fred L. Israel, eds., ''The Justices of the United States Supreme Court: Their Lives and Major Opinions'' NY: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995),


Verse

*''Two Poems'', 1935


References


Sources

*Ohio Center for the Book
Ohio Authors, Louis Filler
*Ohio History

Vol. 61 (1952) *Ohio History

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