George Burton AdamsAmerican medievalist historian George Burton Adams was born in Vermont on June 3, 1851, and he passed away on May 26, 1925. From 1888 until 1925, he was a professor at Yale University. He was renowned for his written works as well as his 1908 lectureas president of the American Historical Association, in which he bemoaned the social sciences' intrusion into the study of history. James Harvey Robinson would subsequently contest this assertion. Additionally, he was crucial in the founding of the American Historical Review. Adams was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1918 as well as a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1899. Read More Read Less