Editing Henry Cabot Lodge (section)

==Historian==
[[File:1880 Henry Cabot Lodge Massachusetts House of Representatives Oval.png|thumb|left|Lodge {{circa}} 1880]]
After traveling through Europe, Lodge returned to Harvard, and, in 1876, became one of the earliest recipients of a PhD in history from an American university.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Lodge.htm|title=U.S. Senate: Featured Bio Lodge|website=www.senate.gov|access-date=November 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161210040152/http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Lodge.htm|archive-date=December 10, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=historians>{{cite web|title=WHO'S ON FIRST?|url=https://historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/december-1989/whos-on-first|website=Historians.org|date=December 1, 1989|access-date=April 2, 2021|archive-date=January 19, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119194636/https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/december-1989/whos-on-first|url-status=live}}</ref> Lodge's dissertation, "The Anglo-Saxon Land Law", was published in a compilation "Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law", alongside his PhD classmates: [[James Laurence Laughlin]] on "The Anglo-Saxon Legal Procedure" and Ernest Young on "The Anglo-Saxon Family Law". All three were supervised by [[Henry Adams]], who contributed "The Anglo-Saxon Courts of Law".<ref name=historians/><ref>{{cite book |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044005040381|location=Boston|publisher=Little, Brown, and Company|title=Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law|date=1876|hdl=2027/hvd.32044005040381|access-date=April 3, 2021|archive-date=January 19, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119194627/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044005040381|url-status=live}}</ref> Lodge maintained a lifelong friendship with Adams.<ref>John A. Garraty, ''Henry Cabot Lodge'' (1953)</ref>

As a [[Popular history|popular historian]] of the United States, Lodge focused on the early [[Federalist Era]]. He published biographies of [[George Washington]] and the prominent Federalists [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[Daniel Webster]], and his great-grandfather [[George Cabot]], as well as ''A Short History of the English Colonies in America''. In 1898, he published ''The Story of the Revolution'' in serial form in [[Scribner's Magazine]].

Lodge was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1878.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter L|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterL.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=April 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708104413/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterL.pdf|archive-date=July 8, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1881, he was elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistl|title=MemberListL|access-date=December 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233840/http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistl|archive-date=March 3, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> He was also a member of the [[Massachusetts Historical Society]], and served as its president from 1915 to 1924.<ref>Claude Singer, ''The Grim Security of the Past:  The Historiography of Henry Cabot Lodge'', M.A. thesis, Portland State University (1973), p. 5.</ref> As such, Lodge penned a preface to ''[[The Education of Henry Adams]]'' (which had been written by Adams in 1905 and printed in a private edition for family and friends) when this classic autobiography was posthumously published by the Massachusetts Historical Society in September 1918.