ADAMS, GEORGE BURTON (1851-1925), American educator and historian, was born in Fairfield, Vt., June 3, 1851.
He graduated from Beloit college, Beloit, Wis., in 1873, and received the degree of doctor of philosophy from the University of Leipzig, Germany, in 1886. He was professor of history in Drury college, Springfield, Mo., from 1877 to 1888, when he became professor of history at Yale. From 1895 to 1913 he was editor of the American Historical Review. He edited Duruy's Middle Ages, Bemont and Monod's Mediaeval Europe, and Select Documents of English Constitutional History. He died in New Haven, Conn., May 26, 1925.
His published works include Civilization During the Middle Ages (1894), The Growth of the French Nation (1896), European History (1899), The Origin of the English Constitution (1912), Outline Sketch of English Constitutional History (1918), The British Empire (1919) and The Constitutional History of England (1921).