Charles C. McLaughlin
Charles C. McLaughlin (born January 20, 1929 in Boston , Massachusetts , † September 2, 2005 in Baltimore , Maryland of heart attack ) was an American professor of history at the American University , Washington, DC
life and work
McLaughlin was internationally known for his horticultural and landscaping expertise in the 19th century , particularly the work of Frederick Law Olmsted . He was a co-founder of the National Association for Olmsted Parks and gave a. a. Olmsted's Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England and The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted (1977), to which he also wrote the preface.
He graduated from Yale University , where he graduated in Music History and European History in 1951. In 1955 he and his wife developed polio and spent nine months in the hospital. In 1959 he earned a PhD in American Studies from Harvard University . He was at Stanford University until 1963 and then moved to the American University in Washington, DC , where he was a professor for three decades and taught, among other things, the history of the humanities and urban planning as well as the history of landscape architecture.
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| SURNAME | McLaughlin, Charles C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McLaughlin, Charles Capen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American history professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2, 2005 |
| Place of death | Baltimore , Maryland |