Person: Raymond Fosdick

Legitimizing the Social Sciences: The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in the 1920s
What began as a philanthropic fund to honor its namesake became an early force in the social sciences.
- 1910s
- 1920s
- Beardsley Ruml
- Capacity Building
- Child Health
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- Demonstration Campaigns
- Economics
- Education & Knowledge
- Fellowships
- Field-Building
- Financial Sustainability
- Funding Individuals
- Government & Public Policy
- Grant-Making
- Institution Building
- Intellectual Networks
- Interwar
- Knowledge Transfer
- Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial
- Lawrence Frank
- Mass Communications and Media
- Mental Health
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Philanthropic Strategies
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Public Health Campaigns
- Raymond Fosdick
- Research Institutions
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Social Science Research Council
- Social Sciences
- Spelman Fund of New York
- Sydnor Walker
- Women's Health

The Rockefeller Foundation’s Role in Creating the Atomic Bomb
In the aftermath, Foundation staff struggled to rectify their organization’s involvement with this weapon of mass destruction.
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- Ernest O. Lawrence
- Fellowships
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- Field-Building
- Funding Individuals
- Grant-Making
- Issues in Philanthropy
- Japan
- Nobel Laureates
- Peace & Conflict
- Philanthropic Strategies
- Physics
- Raymond Fosdick
- Research Institutions
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Science & Innovation
- Social Sciences
- Technology
- Thomas B. Appleget
- United States
- Warren Weaver
- World War II

World War II & the Rockefeller Foundation
Saving threatened scholars and confronting a dramatically changed world.
- 1930s
- 1940s
- American Council of Learned Societies
- Archives and Libraries
- Area Studies
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- Asia
- Changing Political Contexts
- Cultural Preservation
- Europe
- Global Engagement
- Higher Education
- Humanitarian Aid
- International Development
- Language
- Latin America
- Peace & Conflict
- Public Health
- Raymond Fosdick
- Refugees
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Rockefeller Foundation Health Commission
- Scholar Rescue
- Vaccine Development
- World War II