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Ferdinand Schevill (1868–1954) was an American historian. He graduated from Yale University in 1889 and finished his PhD at Freiburg in 1892. That same year he arrived at the University of Chicago where he taught from 1892 to 1937. Schevill’s first book a textbook on Western European history was Political History of Europe from 1500 to the Present Day. It was revised and republished many times.