Teaching Sport as History, History through Sport

Abstract

At the time of his death, December 23, 1977, ROBERT F. WHEELER was Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of Pittsburgh and came to Los Angeles that same year after teaching for three years in the Western Civilization program at Stanford University. A study fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies in 1972-73 and of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung in 1973-74, Professor Wheeler was the author of the book USPD und Internationale. Sozialistischer Internationalismus in der Zeit der Revolution (Frankfurt: Ullstein, 1975) and of numerous articles in scholarly journals in Europe and the United States. He was also the founder and editor of International Labor and Working Class History and was researching a social history of German labor during the Weimar Republic. Completion of this essay was facilitated by a research support grant from the Graduate School at the University of Southern California.