James Patrick Shenton (March 17, 1925 – July 25, 2003) was a historian of nineteenth-and twentieth-century America.
[3] He served in the United States Army Medical Corps in Europe during World War II and was one of the first Americans to enter the Buchenwald concentration camp.
He helped found the Double Discovery Center, a tutoring and mentoring program for low-income teenagers in New York City.
Among his students were Bancroft Prize winners Eric Foner, Sean Wilentz, and Thomas Sugrue, Harper's Magazine publisher John R.
[1] Shenton was also politically active and led voter registration drives in South Carolina and took part in the Selma to Montgomery marches with his students.