George Wilson Pierson

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According to Wikipedia, George Wilson Pierson was an American academic, historian, author and Larned Professor of History at Yale University. He was the first official historian of the university. Family life Pierson was a descendant of Yale's first rector, Abraham Pierson, and he was related to the college's first student. He was the son of Charles Wheeler Pierson, a New York lawyer who had been valedictorian of the Class of 1886. Like his father, Pierson was at the top of his undergraduate class in 1926.

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George Wilson Pierson's Published Works

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Tocqueville in America (1969) (72)
Tocqueville and Beaumont in America (1939) (67)
The M-Factor in American History (1962) (29)
The moving American (1973) (21)
Yale College : an educational history, 1871-1921 (1952) (16)
The Education of American Leaders; Comparative Contributions of U.S. Colleges and Universities (1969) (15)
The Frontier and American Institutions a Criticism of the Turner Theory (1942) (14)
Yale : the University College, 1921-1937 (1955) (8)
A Restless Temper ... (1964) (4)
The Obstinate Concept of New England: A Study in Denudation (1955) (4)
The Frontier and Frontiersmen of Turner's Essays: A Scrutiny of the Foundations of the Middle Western Tradition (1940) (4)
Foreign Influences in American Life (1945) (3)
Yale : a short history (1976) (2)
Yale: College and University, 1871-1937. Volume I, Yale College: An Educational History, 1871-1921 (1953) (2)
American Historians and the Frontier Hypothesis in 1941@@@The Development of Frederick Jackson Turner as a Historical Thinker (1944) (2)
Tocqueville in America : abridged by Dudley C. Lunt from Tocqueville and Beaumont in America (1959) (2)
The Founding of Yale: The Legend of the Forty Folios (1988) (1)
Yale College, an Educational History 1871-1921@@@Yale: The University College, 1921-1937 (1957) (1)
A New Madison Manuscript Relating to the Federal Convention of 1787 (1930) (0)
19. The University and American Society (1977) (0)
The Connecticut Wits. By Leon Howard, Northwestern University. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1943. Pp. xiii, 453. $4.50.) (1943) (0)
Hugh Hawkins. Between Harvard and America: The Educational Leadership of Charles W. Eliot. New York: Oxford University Press. 1972. Pp. xi, 404. $12.50 (1974) (0)
GRAY, JAMES. The University of Minnesota, 1851-1951. Pp. xvii, 609. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1951. $3.75 (1951) (0)
WERTENBAKER, THOMAS JEFFERSON. Princeton 1746-1896. Pp. v, 424. Prince ton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1946. $3.75 (1947) (0)
An Unsettled People: Social Order and Disorder in American History Rowland Berthoff (1972) (0)
History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940. By Edward Potts Cheyney. (1941) (0)
The Shaping of a People: The United States of America. (1978) (0)
Yale College, an Educational History, 1871-1921: Volume one of Yale, College and University, 1871-1937. (1952) (0)
MAYER, J. P. Alexis de Tocqueville. Pp. xvii, 233. New York: Viking Press, Inc., 1940. $3.00 (1940) (0)

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Yale University