Herman Vandenburg Ames
Author and academic · United States · On the map · Writers · Lived 1865 to 1935 · aged 69
Herman Vandenburg Ames was an American legal historian, archivist, and professor of United States constitutional history at the University of Pennsylvania and, from 1907 to 1928, dean of its graduate school.
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Herman Ames' father, Marcus Ames, was a minister.
Herman Ames was initiated into Delta Upsilon at Amherst College, whose chapter house is shown here at about the time he was its president.![A pedigree chart showing the academic genealogy of Herman Ames{{cite web |title=Albert Bushnell Hart Biography |url=https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/presidential-addresses/albert-bushnell-hart/albert-bushnell-hart-biography |website=historians.org |publisher=[[American Historical Association]] |access-date=August 15, 2018}} Von Holst received his doctorate at the [[University of Heidelberg]] under the supervision of [[Ludwig Häusser]] who, in turn, received his doctorate at Heidelberg under the supervision of [[Friedrich Christoph Schlosser]].{{cite book |last1=Gothein |first1=Eberhard |title=Im Schaffen geniessen: der Briefwechsel der Kulturwissenschaftler Eberhard und Marie Luise Gothein (1883-1923) |date=2006 |publisher=Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar |isbn=978-3412347055 |page=573 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AO_Hd96if0MC|language=de}}{{cite book |last1=Kelley |first1=Donald |title=Fortunes of History: Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga |date=2008 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0300128291 |pages=173-174}}"}},"i":0}}]}">[b]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Academic_pedigree_of_Herman_Vandenburg_Ames.jpg/330px-Academic_pedigree_of_Herman_Vandenburg_Ames.jpg)
A pedigree chart showing the academic genealogy of Herman Ames{{cite web |title=Albert Bushnell Hart Biography |url=https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/presidential-addresses/albert-bushnell-hart/albert-bushnell-hart-biography |website=historians.org |publisher=[[American Historical Association]] |access-date=August 15, 2018}} Von Holst received his doctorate at the [[University of Heidelberg]] under the supervision of [[Ludwig Häusser]] who, in turn, received his doctorate at Heidelberg under the supervision of [[Friedrich Christoph Schlosser]].{{cite book |last1=Gothein |first1=Eberhard |title=Im Schaffen geniessen: der Briefwechsel der Kulturwissenschaftler Eberhard und Marie Luise Gothein (1883-1923) |date=2006 |publisher=Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar |isbn=978-3412347055 |page=573 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AO_Hd96if0MC|language=de}}{{cite book |last1=Kelley |first1=Donald |title=Fortunes of History: Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga |date=2008 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0300128291 |pages=173-174}}"}},"i":0}}]}">[b]
Ames was the editor of one volume of the multi-issue State Documents on Federal Relations.
A 1918 note from Ames to W.E.B. DuBois concerning a student recommendationAbout this person
His 1897 monograph, The Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States During the First Century of Its History, was a landmark work in American constitutional history. Other works by Ames included John C. Calhoun and the Secession Movement of 1850, Slavery and the Union 1845-1861, and The X.Y.Z. Letters, the latter of which he authored with John Bach McMaster. Among his notable students were Ezra Pound, John Musser, and Herbert Eugene Bolton.
