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According to Wikipedia, 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. 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.

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Herman Vandenburg Ames's Published Works

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State Documents on Federal Relations: The States and the United States (11)
The Foundations of the Constitution. (1929) (2)
Memories of a Hundred Years@@@Colonel Alexander K. McClure's Recollections of Half a Century (1903) (2)
The Life and Times of Thomas Smith (1745-1809) (1904) (1)
The Public Career of Benjamin Franklin A Life of Service (1931) (1)
The Susquehannah Company Papers. 12 vols. Edited by Julian F. Boyd. Vols. I, II, and III (1933) (0)
Slavery and the Constitution, 1789-1845 (0)
Book Reviews: The Two Franklins: Fathers of American Democracy, by Bernard Fay (1934) (0)
Reviews : The True History of the American Revolution. By SIDNEY GEORGE FISHER. Pp. 437, with twenty-four illustrations and maps. Price, $2.00. Phila delphia : J. B. Lippincott Company, I902 (1903) (0)
3. A Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature on Additional Amendments to the Federal Constitution, 1790 (1896) (0)
The Negro in Pennsylvania: Slavery—Servitude—Freedom, 1639–1861. By Edward Raymond Turner, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of Michigan. (Washington: The American Historical Association. 1911. Pp. xii, 314.) (1912) (0)
Slavery and the Union, 1845-1861 (0)
Life and Administration of Sir Robert Eden. By BERNARD C. STEINER, Ph. D. Pp. I42. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Series XVI, Nos., 7, 8, 9. Balti more : The Johns Hopkins Press, I898 (1899) (0)
Select Documents Illustrative of the History of the United States, I776-I86I. Edited with Notes by WILLIAM MACDONALD, Professor of History and Political Science in Bowdoin College. Pp. xiii, 465. Price, $2.25. New York and London: The Macmillan Company, I898 (1898) (0)
CHANNING, EDWARD; HART, ALBERT B., and TURNER, FREDERICK J. Guide to Study and Reading of American History. Pp. xvi, 650. Price, $2.50. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1912 (1913) (0)
The tariff and nullification, 1820-1833 (0)
Reviews : Select Charters and Other Documents Illustrative of American History, I606-I775. Edited, with Notes, by WILLIAM MACDONALD, Professor of History and Political Science in Bowdoin College. Pp. ix, 40I. Price, $2.00. New York and London: The Macmillan Company, 1899 (1900) (0)
Book Notice: Franklin, The Apostle of Modern Times, by Bernard Fay (1930) (0)
The Foundations of the Constitution. By David Hutchison, Ph.D., Professor of Government, State College, Albany, N. Y. (New York: Grafton Press. 1928. Pp. 406. $3.50.) (1929) (0)
The Life of Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress and Translator of the Bible from the Greek. By Lewis R. Harley. (Philadelphia: Jacobs and Co. 1900. Pp. 244.) (0)

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