 from Harvard in 1914.Craven then married and taught at North Division High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin until 1920, when he moved to Chicago to complete a doctorate in history under the guidance of Marcus Jernegan and William E. Dodd.He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1923, and would later receive honorary doctorates from Tulane University and Cambridge University in 1952, as well as from the College of Emporia in 1974, Purdue University in 1969, Western Michigan University in 1963, the University of South Carolina in 1961, Wayne State University in 1957, and from his alma mater, Simpson College (1945).