| Birth Name: | Ari Arthur Hoogenboom |
| Birth Date: | 28 November 1927 |
| Birth Place: | New York City, Queens, New York |
| Death Place: | New York City, New York |
| Education: | Atlantic Union College Columbia University |
| Subject: | American history |
| Children: | Lynn, Ari, Jan |
Ari Arthur Hoogenboom (pronounced as //'hoʊ gɛn buːm//, HOH-gen-boom; November 28, 1927 – October 25, 2014) was professor emeritus of history at Brooklyn College at the City University of New York. He was a scholar of the Gilded Age, particularly regarding the life and presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes.[1]
Hoogenboom grew up in the Queens borough of New York City, where he graduated from John Adams High School. He later earned a bachelor's degree from Atlantic Union College. While at Atlantic, he met and married his wife, Olive, with whom he would later collaborate on several books. He attended graduate school at Columbia University, where he earned his M. A. and Ph. D., and was a student of David Herbert Donald.[2] He taught history from 1956 to 1958 at the University of Texas at El Paso, and from 1958 to 1968 at Pennsylvania State University. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965.[3] Finally, from 1968 to 1998, he taught at Brooklyn College.
After his retirement from Brooklyn College, Hoogenboom authored Rutherford B. Hayes: One of the Good Colonels, and Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography, about Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox. He worked with his wife, Olive, on one of her books, Washington Women: The Woodbury Sisters.[4]
With his wife, Hoogenboom fathered three children: Lynn, Ari, and Jan.
Hoogenboom died in 2014, aged 86, from complications of mesothelioma.
| Title | Year | Publisher | Subject matter | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outlawing the Spoils: A History of the Civil Service Reform Movement, 1865-1883 | 1961 | U.S. Civil Service Reform | ||
| Spoilsmen and Reformers (editor) | 1964 | Rand McNally & Co. | civil service reform, spoils system | |
| The Enterprising Colonials: Society on the Eve of the Revolution (with William S. Sachs) | 1965 | |||
| History of Pennsylvania (with Phillip S. Klein) | 1973 | History of Pennsylvania | ||
| A History of the ICC: From Panacea to Palliative (with Olive Hoogenboom) | 1976 | Interstate Commerce Commission | ||
| The Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes | 1988 | University Press of Kansas | Rutherford B. Hayes | |
| Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior & President | 1995 | University Press of Kansas | Rutherford B. Hayes | |
| Rutherford B. Hayes: One of the Good Colonels | 1999 | State House Press | Rutherford B. Hayes | |
| Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography | 2008 | Johns Hopkins University Press | Gustavus Fox |