Preface 
Dr. Woodburn's career has been summarized in the bio- 
graphical dictionary as follows: 
Woodburn, James Albert, university professor; born in Blooming- 
ton, Ind., November 30, 1856; son of James and Martha Jane (Hemp- 
hill) Woodburn; A.B., Indiana University, 1876, A.M., 1885; Ph.D., 
Johns Hopkins, 1890; (LL.D., Colgate University, N.Y., 1909, and 
Wabash College, Ind., 1923) ; married Caroline Louise Gelston, of Ann 
Arbor, Mich., November 30, 1893. Professor of American history, 
Indiana University, 1890 . Member, Indiana Historical Commis- 
sion. Member, American Historical Association, American Political 
Science Association, Indiana Historical Society (first vice-president). 
National Municipal League, American Peace Society, University Club 
of Indiana, Indianapolis Literary Club, Phi Beta Kappa (Johns Hop- 
kins). Author: Higher Education in Indiana, 1890; The American Re- 
public and Its Government, 1903, revised, 1914; Political Parties and 
Party Problems in the United States, revised, 1914, and again in 1922; 
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in Monroe County, Indiana, 1910; Life of 
Thaddeus Stevens, 1913, Joint author with Professor T. F. Moran 
of a series of school textbooks on history and civil government, 1909-23. 
Editor: Select Orations of Burke and Webster (with Professor C. W. 
Hodgin, q.v.), 1892; Johnston’s Representative American Orations (4 
vols.), 1895-7; Lecky’s American Revolution (from Lecky’s England in 
the Eighteenth Century), with bibliography and notes; Appleton’s 
American Political History, from Professor Alexander Johnston’s articles 
in Lalor’s Cyclopedia of Political Science and United States History 
(4 vols.). Regular contributor to American Year Book on American 
politics and party history; has also contributed to Encyclopedia Ameri- 
cana, Encyclopedia Britannica, Cyclopedia of American Government, 
history magazines, etc. Presbyterian. Address: Bloomington, Indiana. 
I have heard not a few men praise Dr. Woodburn as the 
best teacher they had ever known — learned, lucid, rightly 
exacting, inspiring. He was a very wise and successful de- 
partment head. He had a just conception of what should be 
accomplished in the undergraduate and graduate Department 
of History. He knew the younger and older scholars in his 
field and so was able to select the best available men to fill 
vacancies in his staff. He was no departmental tyrant. He 
had the wisdom to give generous freedom to the members of 
his staff and at the same time to secure their spirited coopera- 
tion for well-considered departmental policies. He has been 
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