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Lothrop Stoddard

1883 - 1950

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Theodore Lothrop Stoddard (June 29, 1883 – May 1, 1950) was an American historian, journalist, political scientist and white supremacist. Stoddard wrote several books which advocated eugenics, white supremacy, Nordicism, and scientific racism, including The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920). He advocated a racial hierarchy which he believed needed to be preserved through anti-miscegenation laws. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lothrop Stoddard has received more than 795,893 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Lothrop Stoddard is the 455th most popular historian (down from 315th in 2019), the 7,504th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,503rd in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Lothrop Stoddard ranks 455 out of 561. Before him are Anton Heinrich Springer, Sirarpie Der Nersessian, David Marshall Lang, Eberhard Jäckel, Michelle Perrot, and Herwig Wolfram. After him are René Rémond, Donald Nicol, Miguel León-Portilla, Richard J. Evans, Simon Janashia, and Ji Xianlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Lothrop Stoddard ranks 220. Before him are Charles Sheeler, Abdul Muis, Edith Clarke, Maude Fealy, Erik Granfelt, and Käthe Kruse. After him are William Garbutt, Jules Berry, Emil Rausch, Mary Alden, Sax Rohmer, and Tevfik Rüştü Aras. Among people deceased in 1950, Lothrop Stoddard ranks 161. Before him are Antonina Nezhdanova, Miguel Mariano Gómez, Frederic Zelnik, Alberto Ohaco, Charles Bennett, and Francisco Villota. After him are Luise Fleck, Royal Harwood Frost, Boris Verlinsky, Tommaso Costantino, Elisabeth Langgässer, and Alexandros Diomidis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lothrop Stoddard ranks 7,504 out of 20,380. Before him are Strother Martin (1919), Sarah Silverman (1970), Louis L'Amour (1908), Andy Stanfield (1927), Bruce Arena (1951), and Monte Blue (1887). After him are Leonard Mlodinow (1954), Theodora Kroeber (1897), Dan Schneider (1966), Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842), Gary Payton (1968), and Charles Lang (1902).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Lothrop Stoddard ranks 28. Before him are Richard N. Frye (1920), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), Daniel Pipes (1949), Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), and Robert Jay Lifton (1926). After him are Charles A. Beard (1874), Charles Homer Haskins (1870), Rudolph Rummel (1932), Christopher Browning (1944), Samuel Eliot Morison (1887), and Alfred W. Crosby (1931).

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