According to Hoffmann, Hughes left his position at Harvard after his wife, Judith M. Hughes, who was an associate history professor, did not receive tenure. San Diego offered both Hughes and his wife tenured positions.
"His departure was a loss for the university," Hoffmann said. "He was a very good lecturer."
Hughes also taught at Brown in 1940 and 1941 and at Stanford from 1952 to 1957, where he was chair of the history department.
He earned his Ph.D. in history from Harvard in 1940 after graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1937.
Consciousness and Society (1958), one of Hughes' 11 books on European history, is considered a classic of intellectual history by historians, according to Hoffmann.
Hughes' Contemporary Europe: A History (1961) has been widely used as the standard text for European history courses.
"He's one of the old-style intellectual historians who wrote big books easy for the general public to understand," Blackbourn said.
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