![]() From there he went to the University of Michigan, earning a doctorate in medieval history in 1956.Īlthough trained as a medievalist, during his long and illustrious career White focused on modern European intellectual history and historical theory. He joined the Navy at the end of World War II, and after his service enrolled in Wayne State University on the GI Bill, earning a BA in history in 1951. Young Hayden spent much of his childhood going back and forth between the two areas. He spent his early years in Tennessee then his father moved to Detroit in search of jobs in the auto industry. ![]() ![]() White was born on July 12, 1928, in the town of Martin, Tennessee. White, a leading intellectual and theoretical historian whose magnum opus Metahistory (1974) helped pioneer the linguistic turn in modern historiography, died on March 5, 2018, at his home in Santa Cruz, California. ![]()
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