Silas Marcus MacVane

Silas Marcus MacVane (Macvane) (June 4, 1842 – January 19, 1914) was a Canadian-American historian and economist. He was the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University starting in 1887. He was a professor of economics at Harvard from 1873 to 1878 and a professor of history from 1887 to 1911.

MacVane was born in the town of Bothwell on Prince Edward Island. He received his undergraduate degree from Acadia College in Nova Scotia in 1865.

Both Presidents Roosevelt attended history courses taught by Professor MacVane at Harvard.

MacVane was the father of Dorothea Alastair MacVane. He died in Rome in 1914, shortly before the start of WWI.