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Wilbur Kitchener Jordan

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107:(1943-1960). As President of Radcliffe College from 1943 to 1960, Jordan presided over a period of dramatic change at this prestigious women's college, promoting greater integration with nearby Harvard University and the adoption of a liberal arts curriculum, and becoming an early advocate of providing education for women essentially identical to that traditionally provided for men. Jordan's students, including 96:. Though sometimes criticized for attributing too great an importance to skeptical and secular motives for toleration, this capacious and well-sourced work continues to provide the foundation for contemporary studies of the history of religious toleration in England. 261: 256: 241: 251: 57:. Jordan went on to become a leading historian of sixteenth and seventeenth century England, accruing many honors, and producing books, including 246: 187: 35: 92:, and revolutionary England and the evolution of these ideas into the late seventeenth century, following the 50: 203: 138: 236: 231: 39: 182: 108: 54: 46: 104: 93: 100: 85: 160: 89: 225: 175: 80:, published from 1932 to 1940, in which Jordan documented the origins of religious 172: 81: 66: 17: 53:
in 1923, before earning a master's (1926) and doctoral (1931) degree from
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Jordan's most enduring scholarly work, however, has been his four-volume
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In 1943, Kitchener declined the presidency of the prestigious
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historian, specializing in sixteenth and seventeenth century
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W. K. Jordan
American
Britain
Lynnville, Indiana
Oakland City College
Harvard University
Edward VI
toleration
Elizabethan
Stuart
English Civil War
Scripps College
Radcliffe College
Natalie Zemon Davis
"Professor Wilbur Kitchener Jordan FBA"
Harvard University Library
Papers of Wilbur Kitchener Jordan, 1943-1965.
Schlesinger Library
"Wilbur Kitchener Jordan"
Harvard Radcliffe Institute
"Professor Wilbur Kitchener Jordan FBA"
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1902 births
1980 deaths
Presidents of Radcliffe College
Harvard University alumni
Oakland City University alumni
20th-century American Episcopalians
Corresponding fellows of the British Academy

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