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Richard J. Jensen
Richard Joseph Jensen (born October 24, 1941) is an American historian. He was a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, from 1973 to 1996. He has worked on American political, social, military, and economic history as well as historiography and quantitative and computer methods. His work focuses on Midwestern electoral history. He authored The Winning of the Midwest and Historian's Guide to Statistics.
Jensen was born on October 24, 1941, in South Bend, Indiana. He matriculated at the University of Notre Dame, obtaining a B.A. in mathematics in 1962. He then moved to Yale University, where he earned an M.A. in 1965 and a Ph.D. in American studies in 1966. His dissertation, The Winning of the Midwest: A Social History of Midwestern Elections, 1888–1896, was supervised by C. Vann Woodward.
After graduation, Jensen started as assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis in 1966. In 1970 he moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he became associate professor of history and was professor of history from 1973 to 1996. In 2008 he became a research professor at Montana State University Billings.
He was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in 1968, Harvard University in 1973, Moscow State University in 1986, and West Point from 1989 to 1990.
From 1971 to 1982 Jensen was also Director of The Family and Community History Center at the Newberry Library. From 1977 to 1982 he was president of the Chicago Metro History Fair. From 1992 to 1997 he was executive director at H-Net. Jensen served on the editorial boards of six scholarly journals, among them The Journal of American History and the American Journal of Sociology.
Jensen was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1962, a William Robertson Coe fellowship in American history in 1963, and a Boies fellowship in 1965. He received the Rockefeller Foundation/Bellagio (1983), and was a University of Illinois senior scholar (1985–88), a Fulbright Fellow (to the USSR, 1986), and an ACLS senior fellow (1987–88). He received the James Harvey Robinson Prize for teaching from the American Historical Association in 1997.
Jensen was quoted in 2012 as stating that Wikipedia was nearly complete regarding major historical articles. His comments came in the Journal of Military History concerning the Wikipedia article on the War of 1812.
In The Winning of the Midwest, Jensen tells a social history of elections in the Midwestern United States from 1888 to 1896. He analyzes the role religion played in political conflict, arguing that it had a major influence on party allegiances. Completed in 1966 as his PhD dissertation, the University of Chicago Press published it in 1971. Reviews in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society and The Journal of American History praised the work for its broad scope, prose style, and analysis. A review in the Indiana Magazine of History criticised the work for attempting to tackle too broad a subject area and questioned Jensen's use of evidence to ascertain religious preferences. It is his most widely cited work.
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Richard J. Jensen
Richard Joseph Jensen (born October 24, 1941) is an American historian. He was a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, from 1973 to 1996. He has worked on American political, social, military, and economic history as well as historiography and quantitative and computer methods. His work focuses on Midwestern electoral history. He authored The Winning of the Midwest and Historian's Guide to Statistics.
Jensen was born on October 24, 1941, in South Bend, Indiana. He matriculated at the University of Notre Dame, obtaining a B.A. in mathematics in 1962. He then moved to Yale University, where he earned an M.A. in 1965 and a Ph.D. in American studies in 1966. His dissertation, The Winning of the Midwest: A Social History of Midwestern Elections, 1888–1896, was supervised by C. Vann Woodward.
After graduation, Jensen started as assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis in 1966. In 1970 he moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he became associate professor of history and was professor of history from 1973 to 1996. In 2008 he became a research professor at Montana State University Billings.
He was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in 1968, Harvard University in 1973, Moscow State University in 1986, and West Point from 1989 to 1990.
From 1971 to 1982 Jensen was also Director of The Family and Community History Center at the Newberry Library. From 1977 to 1982 he was president of the Chicago Metro History Fair. From 1992 to 1997 he was executive director at H-Net. Jensen served on the editorial boards of six scholarly journals, among them The Journal of American History and the American Journal of Sociology.
Jensen was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1962, a William Robertson Coe fellowship in American history in 1963, and a Boies fellowship in 1965. He received the Rockefeller Foundation/Bellagio (1983), and was a University of Illinois senior scholar (1985–88), a Fulbright Fellow (to the USSR, 1986), and an ACLS senior fellow (1987–88). He received the James Harvey Robinson Prize for teaching from the American Historical Association in 1997.
Jensen was quoted in 2012 as stating that Wikipedia was nearly complete regarding major historical articles. His comments came in the Journal of Military History concerning the Wikipedia article on the War of 1812.
In The Winning of the Midwest, Jensen tells a social history of elections in the Midwestern United States from 1888 to 1896. He analyzes the role religion played in political conflict, arguing that it had a major influence on party allegiances. Completed in 1966 as his PhD dissertation, the University of Chicago Press published it in 1971. Reviews in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society and The Journal of American History praised the work for its broad scope, prose style, and analysis. A review in the Indiana Magazine of History criticised the work for attempting to tackle too broad a subject area and questioned Jensen's use of evidence to ascertain religious preferences. It is his most widely cited work.
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