American historian, born in Boston, MA, on the 22nd of December 1821. He was educated at Harvard, and from 1839 to 1841 was in a Boston counting-house; spent four years in foreign travel; on his return taught private school; was professor of political science and history in Trinity College, Hartford, CT (1856–64); its president (1860–64); lecturer on constitutional law and political science (1864–74); lectured at Harvard (1870–73); was master of the Boston Girls’ High School (1872–76); superintendent of the Boston public schools (1878–80); was an overseer of Harvard (1866–72); and in 1868–72 was president of the American Social Science Association. He published many works on historical and other subjects; among them, The Liberty of Rome (2 vols., 1849); The Early Christians (2 vols., 1853); Monarchical Ages; and The American Nation.
