James Schouler (March 20, 1839 – April 16, 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. He graduated at Harvard in 1859, after which he taught for a year at St. Paul's School.
He died in Intervale, New Hampshire on April 16, 1920.
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.
- v. 7. 1865–1877. History of the Reconstruction Period.
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)