Rowland Berthoff
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Rowland Tappan Berthoff (September 20, 1921-March 25, 2001) was an American historian, working in the fields of immigration and social life in the USA. He is best known for his 1971 book An Unsettled People: Order and Disorder in American Life.
He was was born in Toledo, Ohio, attended Oberlin College, did graduate work at Harvard University and was awarded a doctorate by Princeton University in 1952, as a student of Oscar Handlin. He was Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, from 1962.