Herbert Ernest Cushman

Herbert Ernest Cushman (1865–1944) was an American philosopher and teacher. He studied at Tufts College and in Germany, taught philosophy at Tufts for many years and lectured at Harvard and Dartmouth. He is best known for A Beginner's History of Philosophy, a two-volume textbook published in 1910 and 1911, which presents ancient, medieval and modern philosophy against the background of geography, literature and political history, and which was widely used in American colleges in the early twentieth century.