Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,982 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,982 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is the grave of Ray Allen Billington. Born in 1903 in Bay City, Michigan, Billington went to the University of Wisconsin for undergraduate degree. He decided to become a historian, did a master’s degree at the University of Michigan, and then went to Harvard for his Ph.D. He then taught a bunch of places–Clark, Smith, Ohio State, then Northwestern for a long time starting in 1944 and then going to the Newberry Library in 1962. Billington be…