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815: 762: 279:. Gabriel was upset that Yale accepted a $ 500,000 donation on the condition the department focus on "the fundamental principles of American freedom in the field of politics and economics in order to combat the meaning of foreign philosophies". As he remained a professor at Yale, Gabriel achieved the rank of a professor emeritus in 1958 after he retired that June. 237:, an English professor, to teach a course entitled "American Thought and Civilization." He claimed the course "stressed the systematic study of the history of the viewpoints of American writers, scholars, statesmen and reformers." Afterwards, Gabriel served as chairman of the history department from 1931 to 1934. Fellow professor 255:. Although writing as a historian, Gabriel used anthropology to examine how America's "climate of opinion" affected society. He would go on to serve as director of Yale Studies for Returning Service Men from 1944 to 1946 and lecture at the 241:
cited Gabriel as a mentor in the history department and called him a "perennial teacher and friend". In 1938, Gabriel worked alongside Mabel B. Casner, a Connecticut schoolteacher, to publish
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and was a US delegate at the UNESCO conference in Paris. During his lengthy tenure at Yale, Gabriel also served as the editor of the Library of Congress Series in American Civilization.
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Every year, the American Studies Association awards the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize to the best doctoral dissertation in American studies, ethnic studies, or women's studies.
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E. H. Eby (July 1940). "Reviewed Work: The Course of American Democratic Thought: An Intellectual History Since 1815 by Ralph Henry Gabriel".
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for "distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service".
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Gabriel joined the faculty of Yale in 1915. Simultaneously, Gabriel was hired as a general editor of
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an eventual 15-volume series of pictorial history of the development of the United States.
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Ralph Henry Gabriel papers (MS 228). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
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American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession
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Gabriel married Mary Christine Davis in 1917 and they had three children together.
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In 1958, Gabriel served as a committee member on the US National Commission for
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The course of American democratic thought: an intellectual history since 1815
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In 1958, Gabriel was the recipient of an honorary degree from
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before serving in the U.S. Army Infantry during World War I.
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In 1966, Gabriel was awarded a DeVane Medal from Yale's
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Reading, New York
Hamden, Connecticut
Yale University
BA
MA
PhD
intellectual history
Yale University
David M. Potter
Sterling Professor
Yale University
American Studies Association
Reading, New York
Bachelor of Arts
Masters of Arts
Yale University
Stanley Thomas Williams
William Robert Hutchison
Ronald Press Company
United States School of Military Government
Sterling Professor
Elias Boudinot
University of Oklahoma Press
American Studies Association
Cold War
UNESCO
Williams College
Phi Beta Kappa
Wilbur Cross Medal

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