The Bolton Thesis and Hemispherical History

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: The Bolton Thesis and Hemispherical History

Saturday 20 July 2024 is the 154th anniversary of the birth of Herbert Eugene Bolton (20 July 1870 – 30 January 1953), who was born on a farm in rural Wisconsin on this date in 1870.

Bolton was an American historian whose engagement with Spanish colonial history in the Spanish-American borderlands led to his formulation of the Bolton Thesis, that American history needs to be hemispherical history. Bolton trained hundreds of historians who came to be known collectively as the “Bolton School.”

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