Lost in Translations: Roman Law Scholarship and Translation in Early Twentieth-Century America

Earlier generations of Americans were connected to the classical past—to ancient Greece and Rome—to an extent we find hard to understand today. The Founders' training in Latin and ancient history led them to model their new nation after the Roman Republic, and most educated Americans had broadly similar skills and knowledge until the early twentieth century. Lost in Translations describes how this connection helped inspire men who were educated in the late 1800s to dedicate much of their li...