The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/James, James Alton

JAMES, James Alton, American educator: b. Hazel Green, Wis., 17 Sept. 1864. He is a graduate of the State Normal School, Platteville, Wis., and the University of Wisconsin 1888, receiving his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1893. He was superintendent of schools in Darlington, Wis., 1888-90; professor of history in Cornell College, Iowa, 1893-97. Since 1897 he has occupied the chair of history in Northwestern University as head of the department, and is also the chairman of the graduate student work of the university. He is a member of several educational and historical societies. He is the author of (with Allen Hart Stanford) ‘Government in State and Nation’ (1901); ‘Our Government’ (1903); ‘American History’ (1909); ‘Readings in American History’ (1914). He is the editor of the ‘History of Contemporary Civilization’ by Charles Seignobos (1909), and the George Rogers Clark Papers for the Illinois State Historical Society Papers (1912).