George Bancroft, born in 1800, quickly excelled in school while attending the Phillips Exeter Academy, and then entered into Harvard College at the age of thirteen. Harvard President, John Kirkland, encouraged Bancroft to study abroad, so he left for Germany to obtain his Doctorate degree in Philogy. After earning his doctorate, he helped found a private school for boys in Northampton, Massachusetts. When he married a wealthy woman, Sarah Dwight, he gained more time to pursue his intellectual interests, and he started working on his forty yearlong ten volume collection titled “History,” which was a comprehensive study of the nation’s past. Bancroft entered into the political scene in 1844, endorsing the Democrat party. He eventually became
