Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976)
Autor de The Oxford History of the American People
Sobre El Autor
Samuel Eliot Morison was born in Boston in 1887. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1912 and began teaching history there in 1915, becoming full professor in 1925 and Jonathan Trumbull professor of American history in 1941. He served as the university's official historian and wrote a mostrar más three-volume history of the institution, the Tercentennial History of Harvard College and University, which was completed in 1936. Between 1922 and 1925 he was Harmsworth professor of American history at Oxford. He also was an accomplished sailor who retired from the navy in 1951 as a rear admiral. In preparing for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of Christopher Columbus and John Paul Jones, Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1941) and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1952) he took himself out of the study and onto the high seas, where he traced the voyages of his subjects and "lived" their stories insofar as possible. When it came time for the U.S. Navy to select an author to write a history of its operations in World War II, Morison was the natural choice for the task. In 1942, Morison was commissioned by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to write a history of U.S. naval operations in World War II and given the rank of lieutenant commander. The 15 volumes of his History of United States Naval Operations in World War II appeared between 1947 and 1962. Although he retired from Harvard in 1955, Morison continued his research and writing. A product of the Brahmin tradition, Morison wrote about Bostonians and other New Englanders and about life in early Massachusetts. He was an "American historian" in the fullest sense of the term. He also had a keen appreciation for the larger history of the nation and world, provincial is the last word one would use to describe Morison's writing. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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"Navy file photo of Rear Adm. Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR, the eminent naval and maritime historian and Pulitzer prize winning author."
Series
Obras de Samuel Eliot Morison
The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War (1963) 605 copias
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: Supplement and General Index (1962) 185 copias
Journals and other documents on the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus (1993) — Editor — 151 copias
Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788: and the Formation of the Federal Constitution (1923) — Editor — 120 copias
"Old Bruin": Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1794-1858; the American naval officer who helped found Liberia (1967) 78 copias
THE EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA: The Northern Voyages, A.D. 500-1600, & The Southern Voyages, A.D. 1492-1616 (1971) 43 copias
The Development of Harvard university since the inauguration of President Eliot, 1869-1929 (1930) 5 copias
Those misunderstood Puritans 4 copias
The Autogiography of Mark Twain/Christopher Columbus, Mariner (Reader's Digest Great Biographies in Large Type) (1994) 2 copias
Storia degli Stati Uniti d'America 2 copias
Freedom in contemporary society 2 copias
Introduction To Whaler Out Of New Bedford: A Film Based On The Purrington-Russell Panorama Of A Whaling Voyage Round… (1962) 2 copias
William Hickling Prescott, 1796-1859 2 copias
The Puritan pronaos; studies in the intellectual life of New England in the seventeenth century (1936) 2 copias
Les grandes batailles navales du Pacifique 1941-1945 Tome 1 (Pearl Harbor - La Mer de Java - La Mer de Corail - Midway) (1951) 2 copias
Letters of Theodore Roosevelt 1 copia
Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century, Part II, The Tercentennial History of Harvard College and University,… (1936) 1 copia
The Proprietors of Peterborough New Hampshire With some Considerations on the Origin of the Name 1 copia
The History of Harvard 1 copia
Historia del pueblo americano * 1 copia
Historia del pueblo Americano ** 1 copia
Les grandes batailles navales du Pacifique : 1941-1945. 2. Les Batailles autour de Guadal-canal (1952) 1 copia
"The Young Man Washington, An Address delivered at Sander's Theatre, Cambridge, February 22, 1932" (1932) 1 copia
American Neptune 1 copia
Oxford Book of American History 1 copia
A Woman's Life 1 copia
Faith of an Historian 1 copia
HISTORY OF US NAVY WW II 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories (2002) — Contribuidor — 77 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1887-07-09
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1976-05-15
- Lugar de sepultura
- Forest Hill Cemetery, Northeast Harbor, Maine, USA (ashes buried)
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- stroke
- Lugares de residencia
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Educación
- Harvard University (BA | MA | 1908 | Ph.D | History | 1912)
École Libre des Sciences Politiques - Ocupaciones
- historian
professor
sailor - Relaciones
- Beck, Emily Morison (daughter)
Santayana, George (teacher) - Organizaciones
- Harvard University
University of Oxford
University of California, Berkeley
American Historical Association
United States Naval Reserve (WWII)
United States Army (WWI) - Premios y honores
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1915)
American Philosophical Society (1937)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1963)
Pulitzer Prize (1943, 1960)
Bancroft Prize (1949, 1972) (mostrar todos 17)
Balzan Prize (1962)
Officer, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1961)
Loubat Prize (1938)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal (1962)
Honorary member, Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati (1938)
Commander, Order of Isabella the Catholic (1963)
Francis Parkman Prize for Special Achievement (1970)
Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement (1961)
Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1961)
Vuelo Panamericano Medal (1943)
Commander, Order of the White Rose of Finland - Biografía breve
- Samuel Eliot Morison (July 9, 1887–May 15, 1976) was professor of history at Harvard University. Known for his works on maritime history, Morison's service in the US Navy during the Second World War provided firsthand research for his 15-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Among other awards and honors, he received two Pulitzer Prizes, two Bancroft Prizes, the Balzan Prize, the Legion of Merit, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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