History
| William Fairfield Warren | 1873–1903 |
| William E. Huntington | 1904–1911 |
| Lemuel H. Murlin | 1911–1924 |
| Edwin Holt Hughes (acting) | May–Sep 1923 |
| William F. Anderson (acting) | 1925–1926 |
| Daniel L. Marsh | 1926–1950 |
| Harold C. Case | 1950–1967 |
| Arland Christ-Janer | 1967–1970 |
| Calvin B.T. Lee (acting) | 1970 |
| John Silber | 1971–1996 |
| Jon Westling | 1996–2003 |
| John Silber | 2003–2004 |
| Aram Chobanian | 2004–2006 |
| Robert A. Brown | 2006 – present |
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
—William James (1842–1910)