Sloane, William Milligan, 1850–1926, American historian. After serving as secretary to George Bancroft and studying under Droysen in Germany, he was professor of history at Princeton (1883–96) and then Columbia. He wrote on the French Revolution, religious reform, American party government, the Balkans, the French in Africa, and modern democracy as well as a biography of Napoleon. Sloane's 1911 address as president of the American Historical Society showed disillusionment with Darwinian and evolutionary thought as applied to history, and with the concept of scientific history generally. He was one of the founding members (1894) of the International Olympic Committee and a founder (1894) of what became the United States Olympic Committee.
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