Robert Corwin Bannister Jr. (born June 4, 1935) is an American historian. Bannister was a professor at

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the e ...

in Philadelphia. His focus was on American culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, reform movements, and the history of sociology, as well as

Social Darwinism Charles Darwin, after whom social Darwinism is named Social Darwinism is a body of pseudoscientific theories and societal practices that purport to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economi ...

. Bannister has written five books and published numerous articles and reviews. He reviewed

Russell Jacoby Russell Jacoby (born April 23, 1945) is an American academic and a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an author and a critic of academic culture. His fields of interest are twentieth-century European and Amer ...

's ''The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe''.

Bibliography

*''Ray Stannard Baker: The Mind and Thought of a Progressive'' (Yale University Press 1966; reissued Garland, 1979). *''American Values in Transition'' (editor), (Harcourt-Brace, 1972). *''Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought'' (Temple University Press, 1979). Reissued as ''Social Darwinism: Science and Myth'' (Temple Press, 1988). *''Sociology and Scientism: The American Search for Objectivity 1880-1940'' (University of North Carolina, 1987). *''Jessie Bernard: The Making of a Feminist'' (Rutgers University Press, 1991) *''On Liberty, Society, and Politics: The Essential Essays of William Graham Sumner'' (Liberty Fund Press, 1992)

References

20th-century American historians American intellectual historians American social historians People involved in race and intelligence controversies Swarthmore College faculty {{US-historian-stub