James Schouler
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Born | West Cambridge, Massachusetts |
March 20, 1839
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Intervale, New Hampshire |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Occupation | Lawyer, historian |
Notable work | History of the United States under the Constitution, 1789–1865 |
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James Schouler (20 March 1839 – 16 April 1920) was an American lawyer and historian best known for his historical work History of the United States under the Constitution, 1789–1865.
Biography
Schouler was born in West Cambridge (now Arlington), Massachusetts. He was the son of William Schouler, who from 1847 to 1853 edited the Boston Atlas, one of the leading Whig journals of New England. The son graduated at Harvard in 1859, studied law in Boston and was admitted to the bar there in 1862. In 1869 he removed to Washington, where for three years he published the United States Jurist.
After his return to Boston, in 1874, he devoted himself to office practice and to literary pursuits. He was a lecturer at Boston University School of Law between 1885 and 1903, a non-resident professor and lecturer in the National University Law School, Washington, DC, in 1887–1909, and a lecturer on American history and constitutional law at Johns Hopkins University in 1908.
Schouler is best known, however, as an historian. In 1896–1897 he was president of the American Historical Association. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1907.[1]
He died in Intervale, New Hampshire on April 16, 1920.[2]
Works
His most important work is History of the United States under the Constitution, 1789–1865 (7 vols, 1880–1917) whose components include:
- v. 1. 1783–1801. Rule of Federalism.
- v. 2. 1801–1817. Jefferson Republicans.
- v. 3. 1817–1831. Era of good feeling.
- v. 4. 1831–1847. Democrats and Whigs.
- v. 5. 1847–1861. Free soil controversy.
- v. 6. 1861–1865. The civil war.
Among his other publications are:
- A Life of Thomas Jefferson (1893)
- Historical Briefs (1896)
- Constitutional Studies, State and Federal (1897)
- Life of Alexander Hamilton (1901)
- Americans of 1776 (1906)
- Ideals of the Republic (1908)
His legal treatises are:
- The Law of Domestic Relations (1870)
- The Law of Personal Property (1872–1876; new ed., 1907)
- The Law of Bailments (1880)
- The Law of Executors and Administrators (1883)
- The Law of Husband and Wife (1882)
- The Law of Wills (1910)
Notes
- ↑ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
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References
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External links
- Works by James Schouler at Hathi Trust
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