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'''Sewall Cushing Strout''' (April 19, 1923 – November 21, 2013) was an American [[intellectual historian]].<ref name="imagination">{{cite news | last = Fleming| first = Thomas| title = Inventing Our Probable Past| publisher = The New York Times| date = July 6, 1986}}</ref> He was Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at [[Cornell University]].<ref>{{cite news | title = Jefferson's Love Life Doesn't Equal History| pages = Section A; Page 22; Column 4; Editorial Desk | publisher = The New York Times| date = April 25, 1995}}</ref><br />
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Strout was born in [[Portland, Maine]], and attended [[Williams College]] in [[Massachusetts]] between 1941 and 1947. During this time he served in the U.S. Army in Europe in [[World War II]]. He went on to gain an [[Master of Arts|MA]] and a [[PhD]] at [[Harvard University]].<ref name=BFH>{{cite web |title=S. Cushing Strout, Jr. |url=https://www.bangsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/S-StroutJr |website=Bangs Funeral Home |access-date=May 12, 2025}}</ref><br />
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Strout taught at Williams College, [[Yale University]] and the [[California Institute of Technology]] before moving to Cornell in 1962. At Cornell he held the Ernest I. White Chair of American Studies and Humane Letters from 1975 until his retirement in 1989.<ref>{{cite web |title=S. Cushing Strout |url=https://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/50833eea-961b-4652-96e2-3b187cbda204/content |website=Cornell |access-date=May 12, 2025}}</ref><br />
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Strout and his wife, Jean Philbrick, were married for 65 years and had three sons. Strout died in [[Ithaca, New York]], in November 2013, aged 90.<ref name=BFH/><br />
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==Works==<br />
*''The Pragmatic Revolt in American History: [[Carl L. Becker|Carl Becker]] and [[Charles A. Beard|Charles Beard]]'' (1959)<br />
*''The American Image of the Old World'' (1963)<br />
*''Hawthorne in England: Selections from "Our Old Home" and "The English Note-Books"'' (1965)<br />
*''Conscience, Science & Security: The Case Of Dr. J. [[Robert Oppenheimer]]'' (1965) editor<br />
*''Spirit of American Government by [[J. Allen Smith]]'' (1965) editor<br />
*''Intellectual History in America'' (1968) editor, two volumes, ''Contemporary Essays on Puritanism, the Enlightenment & Romanticism'', and ''From Darwin to Niebuhr''<br />
*''Divided We Stand: Reflections on the Crisis at Cornell'' (1970) editor with [[David I. Grossvogel]]<br />
*''The New Heavens and New Earth: Political Religion in America'' (1973)<br />
*''The Veracious Imagination: Essays on American History, Literature and Biography'' (1981)<ref name="imagination"/><br />
*''Making American Tradition: Visions & Revisions from Ben Franklin to Alice Walker'' (1990)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://archivesspace.williams.edu/repositories/2/resources/421 Cushing Strout correspondence] at Williams College Archives & Special Collections<br />
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