Bernard Moses

Bernard Moses (1846–1930) was an American historian and political scientist. Born in Connecticut and educated at the University of Michigan and at Heidelberg, he taught at the University of California from 1875 until his retirement in 1911, founding its departments of history and political science. From 1900 to 1902 he served on the Philippine Commission under William Howard Taft, with responsibility for public instruction. He was among the first American scholars to study Spanish America seriously, in The Establishment of Spanish Rule in America, The Spanish Dependencies in South America and other studies, and he received an honorary professorship from the University of Chile.