Charles Kendall Adams

Charles Kendall Adams (1835–1902) was an American historian and university president. Born in Vermont, he studied and then taught history at the University of Michigan, where he introduced the German seminar method of advanced historical study to American universities. He served as president of Cornell University from 1885 to 1892 and of the University of Wisconsin from 1892 to 1901. His books include Democracy and Monarchy in France, A Manual of Historical Literature and a biography of Christopher Columbus, and with William P. Trent he wrote a widely used school History of the United States. He was also editor-in-chief of Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia.