John Higham - John William Higham (26 October 1920 26 July 2003) was an American historian, scholar of American culture and specialist on issues of ethnicity.Born in Jamaica, Queens, Higham earned his undergraduate history degree from Johns Hopkins in 1941 and received a masters degree from Yale University in 1942. In World War II, he served with the historical division of the Army Air Corps in Italy. He married psychologist Eileen Moss Higham in 1948.After serving as assistant editor of The American Mercury, he earned a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1949. He taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, Rutgers University, Columbia University and the University of Michigan before returning to Johns Hopkins in 1971.He is n John William Higham (26 October 1920 26 July 2003)...
