William Milligan Sloane
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William Milligan Sloane (November 12, 1850–September 12, 1928) was an American educator and historian, born at Richmond, Ohio.
He graduated at Columbia in 1868, and afterwards was employed at Pittsburgh until 1872. While employed in Germany as private secretary to George Bancroft, United States Minister at Berlin, he studied history under Mommsen and Droysen.
He was professor of history in the College of New Jersey (Princeton) (1883-96. While there, he edited the Princeton Review (1886-89). He resigned in 1896 to become professor of history at Columbia.
Professor Sloane was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1911 president or the American Historical Association. His other honors were Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor and of the Swedish North Star.
He published:
- Life and Work of James Renwick Wilson Sloane (1888)
- The French War and the Revolution (1893)
- The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (four volumes, 1896; revised and enlarged edition, 1911)
- Life of James McCosh (1896)
- The French Revolution and Religious Reform (11901)
- Party Government in the United States of America (1914)
- The Balkans (1914)
Sloane served on the International Olympic Committee from 1894 to 1924. The founder and first president of the United States Olympic Committee, he escorted the first American Olympic team to Athens in 1896.
