The Age of the Reformation, Volume I (Dodo Press)
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Preserved Smith (1880-1941) was an American historian of the Protestant Reformation. He attended Amherst College and Columbia University, where he received his Ph. D. in 1907, and continued studies at the Sorbonne and the University of Berlin. Like his mentor James Harvey Robinson at Columbia, he had a high respect for science and a belief that knowledge of history was a way to improve human prospects for the future. He taught at Cornell University as a member of the Department of History from 1923 to 1941. His doctoral dissertation was a critical study of the Table Talk of Martin Luther and he wrote major biographies of Luther and Erasmus. Smith was a professor at Amherst College, Cornell University, Harvard University, and Williams College. His works include: The Age of the Reformation (1920).