![]() In 1969 Boorstin became director of the National Museum of History and Technology (later the National Museum of American History) of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. After returning to the United States, he joined the history department at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, where he spent the next twenty-five years. ![]() ![]() ![]() What most interested Boorstin, though, was history. He also received a doctorate of law from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He received a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in England and graduated with two degrees in law, both of them with honors. After Frank’s lynching in 1915, Boorstin’s father moved his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in part to escape anti-Semitism.īoorstin attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of fifteen and graduated with the highest honors. His father was an attorney who served on Leo Frank’s defense team. Daniel Joseph Boorstin, a distinguished historian who served as the Librarian of Congress for more than a decade, was born in Atlanta on October 1, 1914, to Dora Olsan and Samuel Aaron Boorstin, Russian- Jewish immigrants. ![]()
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