The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Sloane, William Milligan

SLOANE, William Milligan, American historian: b. Richmond, Ohio, 12 Nov. 1850. He was graduated at Columbia in 1868, studied at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig in 1872-76, acting during much of that time as private secretary to George Bancroft, then United States Minister to Berlin. He was professor at Princeton in 1876-96, edited the Princeton Review in 1886-89 and since 1896 has occupied the Seth Low chair of history at Columbia. He has published &lsquo;Life and Work of J. R. W. Sloane&rsquo; (1888); &lsquo;Life of James McCosh&rsquo; (1892); &lsquo;The French War and the Revolution&rsquo; (1893); &lsquo;Life of Napoleon&rsquo; (4 vol., 1897); &lsquo;The French Revolution and Religious Reform&rsquo; (1901); &lsquo;Parteiherrschaft in America&rsquo; (1913); &lsquo;The Balkans&rsquo; (1914); &lsquo;Party Government in America&rsquo; (1915), etc.