George Elliott Howard, Ph.D. (1849 – 1928) was an American

United States

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 educator and author, born at Saratoga, New York

Saratoga, New York

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He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1876, studied in Europe

Europe

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 at the universities of Munich

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 and Paris

Paris

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 (1876-1878), and was professor of history in the University of Nebraska from 1879 to 1891, and professor at Stanford from 1891 to 1901.

Professor Howard lectured at Cornell University

Cornell University

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 (1902) and at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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(1903-1904), then returned to the University of Nebraska.

Publications

• Local Constitutional History of the United States (1889)
• The Evolution of the University (1890)
• The King's Peace and the Local Peace Magistracy (1891)
• History of Matrimonial Institutions (three volumes, 1904)
• Preliminaries of the Revolution (1905)
• Social Control and Function of the Family (1906)
• General Sociology (1907)
• The Family and Marriage (1914)