initially been the name of the whole institution, the New School for Social Research, while the larger institution was renamed The New School.

Founding

The New School for Social Research was founded by a small group of university professors and intellectuals in 1919 as a school where adult students could "seek an unbiased understanding of the existing order, its genesis, growth, and present working". Founders included economist and literary scholar Alvin Johnson, historians Charles A. Beard

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