Shepard B. Clough

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Shepard Bancroft Clough (December 6, 1901 – June 7, 1990) was an American economic historian and a professor of European history at Columbia University. He was born in Bloomington, Indiana, and moved with his family to Lebanon, New Hampshire, in 1903. He finished Colby Academy in 1919 and earned a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University in 1923. He did graduate work at the Sorbonne and the University of Heidelberg, and earned his PhD from Columbia University, where he began teaching in 1928.

During World War II, Clough worked in the economics division of the U.S. Department of State and taught at the U.S. Army School of Military Government at the University of Virginia. After the war, he was honored as a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and as a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. He wrote several books on European economic history and civilizational cycles, and he was a visiting professor at Sciences Po and the University of Grenoble.

Clough retired from teaching in 1970. He died on June 7, 1990, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.