Robert Livingston Schuyler
| Robert Livingston Schuyler | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 26, 1883 New York City |
| Died | August 15, 1966 (aged 83) Rochester, NY |
| Alma mater | Columbia University (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. ) |
| Occupation | Author |
| Employer | Columbia University, Yale University |
| Spouse(s) | Sara Keller Brooks |
| Parent(s) |
Montgomery Schuyler Katherine Beekman Livingston |
Dr. Robert Livingston Schuyler (February 26, 1883 – August 15, 1966) was a prominent scholar of early American history and British history of the same time period. He was an educator and an editor. He spent most of his academic career at Columbia University.
He was born in New York City. His father Montgomery Schuyler was a journalist and architectural writer, and mother Katherine Beeckman Livingston, a direct descendant of Robert Livingston of Albany, was a gifted amateur artist and singer. He began his undergraduate studies in 1899 at Columbia University where he studied under some of the principle founders and shapers of the historical profession in the United States – John W. Burgess, William Archibald Dunning, Herbert L. Osgood, and James Harvey Robinson. From them he derived a lifelong interest in constitutional history and an impressive capacity for exploiting documentary materials.
He worked as a reporter for The New York Times as he worked on his M.A. from Columbia. He later contributed many book reviews for the newspaper. Upon obtaining his master's degree, he became an instructor in history at Yale University. There he worked with George Burton Adams, whose celebrated textbook on English constitutional history Schuyler revised in 1934. He married Sara Keller Brooks on Oct. 19, 1907. He received his Ph.D from Columbia in 1909 and became a lecturer there the next year. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1911, to associate professor in 1919, and to full professor in 1924. He was given the title of Gouverneur Morris Professor in 1942.
In his book, Parliament and the British Empire (1929) Schuyler discredited the old contention – which had been recently revived by C.H. McIlwain of Harvard University – that the acts against which American colonists had protested in the middle of the eighteenth century were without legal authority. Schuyler was one of a group of American historians who rejected the nationalistic bias endemic to much American-history writing. He attempted to explain how the old British Empire had really worked.
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