Biography

<b><a href="http://www.shimer.edu/aboutshimercollege/HaroldStone.cfm">Harold S. Stone</a></b> (b. 1949) is an American cultural historian and professor of history and humanities at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College in Chicago</a>, a <a href="http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/curriculum/index.cfm">Great Books</a> college. Stone holds a bachelor's degree from another Great Books school (St. John's College), and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago. His works include <i>St. Augustine's Bones: A Microhistory</i> and <i>Vico's Cultural History</i>, both of which deal with the cultural history of 17th- and 18th-century Italy. (from <a href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/Harold_Stone#Brief_description">Shimer College Wiki</a>)