Quint, Howard H.

Howard H. Quint was born in New Haven, Conn. on January 3, 1917, the son of Louis and Bessie (Clark) Quint. He received his bachelors degree from Yale University in 1940, then went on to obtain his masters degree from Stanford in 1942, and his PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1947.

During the war years (1942-1946) Quint served as Propaganda Analyst for the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, as Political Analyst for the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, and as Political and Economic Analyst for the Office of Strategic Services.

From 1947 to 1958 he served as Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina, as the Smith-Mundt Visiting Professor at the University of Mexico in 1956, and as a visiting lecturer at Johns Hopkins in 1953 and the University of Wisconsin in 1958. In 1954 he published his first book, The Forging of American Socialism; and in 1958 he published Profiles in Black and White, a study of the segregation controversy in the South. The sensitive nature of this book led to his resignation from the University of South Carolina.

From 1958 to 1959 he served as Associate-Director of the Inter-University Committee on the Superior Student and Co-director of the Senior Colloquium, both at the University of Colorado. In 1959 he accepted a position as Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts. During the 1961-1962 school year Quint served as a Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, in Bologna, Italy on a Fulbright scholarship.

Upon his return he was selected as Chairman of the History Department, a position he retained until 1968. While serving as Chairman, Dr. Quint was instrumental in initiating the PhD program in history, doubling the number of undergraduate courses offered, and appointing over thirty faculty members. In addition to his activities as Chairman, he served as Director of the University's Summer School in Bologna, Italy Program in 1966, 1968, and 1970, and was responsible for establishing the Honors Program at the University of Massachusetts.

In addition to the two books already mentioned, Dr. Quint published The Talkative President: The Off-the-Record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge (1964), Main Problems in American History (1964), and Men, Women, and Issues in American History (1970). He also wrote substantial numbers of book reviews for various historical journals, The New York Times, The New Haven Register, and The Boston Globe . After retiring as department Chairman in 1968, Dr. Quint continued as Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts until his death on June 23, 1981.

From the guide to the Howard H. Quint Papers FS 7., 1940-1981, 1955-1970, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries)