His elder brother was Montgomery Schuyler, Jr. (1877–1955), who served as United States Minister to Ecuador and El Salvador[2] He began his undergraduate studies in 1899 at Columbia University where he studied under some of the principle founders and shapers of the historical profession in the United States – John W. Burgess, William Archibald Dunning, Herbert L. Osgood, and James Harvey Robinson.
There he worked with George Burton Adams, whose celebrated textbook on English constitutional history Schuyler revised in 1934.
McIlwain of Harvard University – that the acts against which American colonists had protested in the middle of the eighteenth century were without legal authority.
[5] Schuyler had a continuing interest in his great English predecessors Thomas Babington Macaulay, J.R. Green, and above all, Frederic William Maitland, to whom he devoted his presidential address to the American Historical Association in 1951 entitled, [The Historical Spirit Incarnate: Frederic William Maitland].
In his later years at Columbia, he was in charge of the historiography course required of graduate students, and anyone who heard his opening lectures was permanently inoculated against the dangers of present-mindedness.
[7][8] In 1907, he married Sara Van Dyke (née Keller) Brooks, the sister-in-law of Luther Douglas Garrett,[9] and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.