Samuel Eliot Morison
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Samuel Eliot Morison was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years. He won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea , a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography . In 1942, he was commissioned to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II, which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962. Morison wrote the popular Oxford History of the American People , and co-authored the classic textbook The Growth of the American Republic with Henry Steele Commager.
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Published Works
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (1960) (330)
- The Oxford history of the American people (1965) (176)
- Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (1942) (155)
- The Growth of the American Republic (1938) (136)
- Harvard College in the seventeenth century (1936) (134)
- The founding of Harvard College (1935) (112)
- Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 (1952) (92)
- The intellectual life of colonial New England (1956) (85)
- The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages. (1972) (77)
- Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936 (1936) (76)
- The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. (1961) (64)
- Journals and other documents on the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus (1963) (61)
- Builders of the bay colony (1930) (46)
- Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942) (41)
- Washington's Farewell Address (1936) (41)
- The Maritime History Of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 (37)
- The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War (1963) (37)
- The New World: The First Pictures of America, made by John White and Jacques le Moyne and Engraved by Theodore DeBry, with Contemporary Narratives of the Huguenot Settlement in Florida, 1562-1565, and the Virginia Colony, 1585-1590 (1947) (34)
- Two Elizabethan Puritan Diaries (1933) (33)
- The Voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano, 1524-1528 (1971) (32)
- The European Discovery Of America (1971) (31)
- William Manning's The Key of Libberty (1956) (28)
- The development of Harvard University since the inauguration of President Eliot, 1869-1929 (1930) (26)
- Square-Riggers on Schedule: The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports (1939) (25)
- Dissent in three American wars (1970) (22)
- A Concise History of the American Republic (1977) (20)
- History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. V: The Struggle for Guadalcanal August 1942-February 1943. (1950) (20)
- The Stamp Act crisis (1953) (18)
- Samuel de Champlain: Father of New France (1972) (17)
- Voyages of the "Columbia" to the Northwest Coast, 1787-1790 and 1790-1793 (1942) (17)
- Faith of a Historian (1951) (16)
- The Spanish Background of American Literature. (1956) (16)
- The log cabin myth; a study of the early dwellings of the English colonists in North America (1967) (15)
- Three Centuries of Harvard: 1636-1936@@@Harvard University Handbook: An Official Guide (1937) (13)
- History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 4: Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions May-August 1942. (1950) (13)
- History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. III, The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931--April 1942. (1948) (13)
- John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959) (12)
- The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages AD 1492-1616 (1975) (12)
- The Great Explorers (1978) (12)
- The Battle of the Atlantic : September 1939-May 1943 (1948) (12)
- Portuguese Voyages to America in the Fifteenth Century (1941) (11)
- Essays in Colonial History Presented to Charles McLean Andrews by His Students (1931) (11)
- Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions, May 1942 - August 1942: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume IV (1949) (10)
- Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century (The Tercentenary History of Harvard College and University 1636-1936) (1938) (10)
- The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943, (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume I.) (1948) (10)
- Christopher Columbus, Mariner (1955) (10)
- Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788: And the Formation of the Federal Constitution (1965) (9)
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples: The Age of Revolution (1958) (9)
- North Carolina: The Old North State and the New (1942) (8)
- The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, A.D. 1492-1616 (1975) (8)
- One boy's Boston, 1887-1901 (1962) (8)
- The Caribbean as Columbus saw it (1964) (7)
- The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis. (1914) (7)
- The Oxford History of the United States. (1929) (7)
- The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931-April 1942. (1948) (6)
- The Parkman Reader (1955) (6)
- The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, A.D. 1492-1619. (1975) (6)
- The struggle for Guadalcanal : August 1942 - February 1943 (1950) (6)
- Harrison Gray Otis, 1765-1848 : the urbane Federalist (1969) (5)
- The Harvard School of Astronomy in the Seventeenth Century (1934) (5)
- History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. VI: Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, 22 July 1942-1 May 1944@@@The Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol. IV: The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944 (1951) (5)
- New Guinea and the Marianas : March 1944-August 1944 (1954) (5)
- "Old Bruin:" Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1794-1858. (1968) (5)
- The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages AD 500-1600 (1971) (5)
- Freedom in contemporary society (1957) (5)
- The Oxford History of the United States, 1783-1917 (1928) (5)
- William Plumer's Memorandum of Proceedings in the United States Senate, 1803-1807 (5)
- Texts and Translations of the Journal of Columbus’s First Voyage (1939) (4)
- American contributions to the strategy of World War II (1958) (4)
- Strategy and Compromise (1958) (4)
- The Puritan pronaos (1936) (4)
- Sailor Historian: The Best of Samuel Eliot Morison (1977) (4)
- The ropemakers of Plymouth : a history of the Plymouth Cordage Company, 1824-1949 (1951) (4)
- Records of the Suffolk County Court, 1671-1680 (1934) (4)
- Louisbourg Journals, 1745 (1932) (4)
- History as a literary art (1971) (4)
- 1. Dissent in the War of 1812 (1970) (4)
- Victory in the Pacific: 1945 (1960) (4)
- Harvard College records (4)
- Elbridge Gerry, Gentleman-Democrat (3)
- The Cambridge History of the British Empire. Volume I. The Old Empire from the Beginnings to 1783. (1929) (3)
- The Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus from Cadiz to Hispaniola and the Discovery of the Lesser Antilles (1939) (3)
- Operations in North African Waters: October 1942-June 1943 (1947) (3)
- The Legend of Marguerite de Roberval (1969) (3)
- The Story of the Old Colony of New Plymouth, 1620-1692 (1952) (3)
- The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas@@@The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 (1942) (3)
- By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses (1953) (3)
- Statesman and Friend. Correspondence of John Adams with Benjamin Waterhouse, 1784-1822 (1928) (3)
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: 22, July 1942-1 May, 1944 (1950) (3)
- An Englishman in America, 1785. Being the Diary of Joseph Hadfield (1934) (3)
- Robert Carter's Recollections of William H. Prescott (1959) (2)
- The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-May 1943. Volume I of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. (1948) (2)
- The Puritan Pronaos.@@@The Rise and Fall of the New Haven Colony. (1937) (2)
- Forcing the Dardanelles in 1810: With Some Account of the Early Levant Trade of Massachusetts (1928) (2)
- Battle of the Atlantic (1947) (2)
- Squire Ames and Doctor Ames (2)
- Province and Court Records of Maine (1929) (2)
- Melville's "Agatha" Letter to Hawthorne (1929) (2)
- The story of Mount Desert Island, Maine (1960) (2)
- Leyte June 1944 - January 1945 (1958) (2)
- Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut (1933) (2)
- Sail and Steam along the Maine Coast (1956) (2)
- Squire Ames and Doctor Ames (2)
- Lighthouses of New England (1930) (2)
- History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Volume VIII. New Guinea and the Marianas. (1954) (2)
- American and French Flags of the Revolution, 1777-1783 (1949) (2)
- A new and fresh English translation of the letter of Columbus announcing the discovery of America (1959) (2)
- The History of Ellsworth, Maine (1928) (2)
- The Centenary of Prescott's Death@@@William Hickling Prescott: A Memorial@@@Prescott and His Publishers (1959) (1)
- Ship Registers of the District of Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1789-1870@@@An Alphabetical List of Ship Registers, District of Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1814-1913@@@Ship Registers of the District of Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1789-1908@@@Inventory of Federal Archives of the States (1939) (1)
- The diary of Cotton Mather D.D., F.R.S. for the year 1712 (1965) (1)
- Yale College, an Educational History 1871-1921@@@Yale: The University College, 1921-1937 (1957) (1)
- The Diary of Francisco Miranda: Tour of the United States, 1783-1784 (1929) (1)
- Goin' Fishin'. The Story of the Deep-Sea Fishermen of New England (1935) (1)
- Vistas of history (1964) (1)
- The Four Voyages of Columbus: Review@@@Admiral of the Ocean Sea, a Life of Christopher Columbus@@@Christopher Columbus: Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1943) (1)
- The Memorial quadrangle : a book about Yale (1930) (1)
- Commodore Perry's Japan Expedition Press and shipboard theatre (1967) (1)
- The Pine Tree Coinage of Massachusetts (1953) (1)
- The Correspondence of King George the Third from 1760 to December, 1783 (1928) (1)
- American colonial colleges (1936) (1)
- Prelude to Independence: The Virginia Resolutions of May 15, 1776 (1951) (1)
- The First National Nominating Convention, 1808 (1912) (1)
- Shipbuilding Days in Casco Bay, 1727-1890 (1931) (1)
- The Battle of the Atlantic: 1939-1943@@@Operations in North African Waters: October, 1942-June, 1943@@@The Rising Sun in the Pacific: 1931-April, 1942 (1949) (1)
- Virginians and Marylanders at Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century (1)
- History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. III: The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1939-April 1942@@@The Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol. I: Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942 (1949) (1)
- The Harvard Presidency (1958) (1)
- VIII. The Log Cabin Myth: A Comedy of Errors (1939) (1)
- I. The Charter of 1650 (1936) (1)
- Is "Liberal Education" Democratic? What Jefferson Advocated (1944) (1)
- REFERENCES ADDED IN THE SECOND PRINTING (1954) (1)
- New Light Wanted on the Old Colony (1958) (1)
- An hour of American history (0)
- VI. Virginia and her Neighbors (1939) (0)
- VII. THE CURRICULUM: PROGRAMMES, METHODS, MATERIALS, AND CHARACTER (1936) (0)
- Chapter Twenty-five. THE IMPACT OF REFORM ON POLITICS, 1900–1920 (1954) (0)
- Chapter Twenty-nine. GREAT DEPRESSION, 1930–1941 (1954) (0)
- Harrison Gray Otis, the Urbane Federalist: 1765-1848 (1969) (0)
- List of Illustrations and Maps (1936) (0)
- First Americans in North Africa: William Eaton's Struggle for a Vigorous Policy against the Barbary Pirates, 1799-1805. Louis B. Wright , Julia H. MacLeod (1947) (0)
- History of U. S. Naval Operations in World War II. Sicily-Salerno-Anzio: January, 1943-June, 1944 (1954) (0)
- Naval Documents of the American Revolution: Volume I, American Theatre, December 1, 1774-September 2, 1775. European Theatre, December 6, 1774-August 9, 1775 (1966) (0)
- Dissent in Three Wars (1970) (0)
- VIII. GRAMMAR, RHETORIC, AND LOGIC (1936) (0)
- IV. THE COLLEGE ORGANIZATION (1936) (0)
- VI. COLLEGE AMUSEMENTS 1640-1672 (1936) (0)
- History of United States Naval Operations in World War II@@@The Army Air Forces in World War II (1950) (0)
- Anne Hutchinson: A Biography@@@Unafraid: A Life of Anne Hutchinson@@@An American Jezebel: The Life of Anne Hutchinson (1930) (0)
- IX. GREEK AND HEBREW (1936) (0)
- The Voyages of Cadamosto and other Documents on Western Africa in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century. Translated and edited by G. R. Crone. [The Hakluyt Society.] (London: the Society. 1937. Pp. xlv, 159. £1 5s.) (1939) (0)
- The Ropemakers of Plymouth: A History of the Plymouth Cordage Company, 1824-1849 (1951) (0)
- Chapter Nineteen. LIQUIDATION OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1865–1880 (1954) (0)
- VII. Origin and Spread of the Log House (1939) (0)
- Chapter Seven. THE PLANTING OF THE DUTCH, FRENCH, AND ENGLISH IN NORTH AMERICA TO 1660 (1954) (0)
- Chapter One. THE NATURE OF HISTORY (1954) (0)
- Comenius Americanus: Comenius in England (1933) (0)
- The Origin of the Monroe Doctrine, 1775-1823 (1924) (0)
- XIV. THE COLLEGE LIBRARY 1655-1723 (1936) (0)
- Chapter Sixteen. MANIFEST DESTINY AND SLAVERY, 1830–1848 (1954) (0)
- II. Definitions and Dialectic (1939) (0)
- Chapter Six. FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES TO 1600 (1954) (0)
- Chapter Ten. THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA, 1760–1789 (1954) (0)
- The Struggle for Guadalcanal: August 1942-February 1943. (Vol. V of The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II). (1949) (0)
- History of the United States, 1783-1917. (1929) (0)
- III. Social Implications (1939) (0)
- XVII. THE INDIAN COLLEGE AND PRESS 1655-1698 (1936) (0)
- Chapter Thirteen. THE NEW NATIONALISM, 1815–1829 (1954) (0)
- ABBREVIATIONS IN FOOTNOTES (1936) (0)
- Chapter Eighteen. THE CIVIL WAR (1954) (0)
- XV. THE LAST YEARS OF DUNSTER 1652-1659 (1936) (0)
- A Study of Sea Influence in American Life@@@The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 (1923) (0)
- Down Easter Captain (1967) (0)
- Terrain Inventory, Sheldon Lake (1984) (0)
- The universities of the middle ages and the renaissance (1936) (0)
- The American States during and after the Revolution, 1775–1789. By Allan Nevins. (New York: Macmillan Company. 1924. Pp. xviii, 728. $4.00) (1925) (0)
- Study guide for The growth of the American Republic (1957) (0)
- Portrait of a Friendship: Selected Correspondence of Samuel Eliot Morison and Lincoln Colcord, 1921-1947, Part 2 (1983) (0)
- The Willie Jones-John Paul Jones Tradition (1959) (0)
- An hour of American history : from Columbus to Coolidge (0)
- Freedom in Contemporary Society@@@The Blessings of Liberty@@@Three Human Rights in the Constitution (1957) (0)
- Chapter Thirty. WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1941–1952 (1954) (0)
- The Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus from Cadiz to Hispaniola and the Discovery of the Lesser Antilles. (1939) (0)
- The First Decade of Harvard: The Founding of Harvard College (1935) (0)
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. 13. January 1 through December 31, 1766. Vol. 14. January 1 through December 31, 1767 (1970) (0)
- LIST OF ARMS AND SEALS (1936) (0)
- Morton's compendium physicae (1940) (0)
- American Merchant Ships, 1850-1900@@@The Baltimore Clipper: Its Origin and Development@@@Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship@@@Rough and Tumble on Old Clipper Ships (0)
- History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 3. The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931-April 1942. (1949) (0)
- Chapter Twenty-two. SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL GROWTH, 1865–1900 (1954) (0)
- V. Plymouth to Pennsylvania (1939) (0)
- Chapter Twenty. ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, 1865–1880 (1954) (0)
- Charles Morton's "Compendium Physicae." (1941) (0)
- Sailing Days on the Penobscot. The River and Bay as They Were in the Old Days (1933) (0)
- Chapter Twenty-seven. THE WORLD WAR (1954) (0)
- Fundamentals of Naval Warfare@@@The Influence of Sea Power in World War II (1948) (0)
- Chapter Twenty-eight. DECADE OF PROSPERITY, 1920–1929 (1954) (0)
- Chapter Eight. FROM THE STUART RESTORATION TO THE TREATY OF UTRECHT 1660–1713 (1954) (0)
- Cortes and Champlain: An Exploration in Comparative History@@@Samuel de Champlain: Father of New France.@@@Hernan Cortes: Letters from Mexico. (1973) (0)
- II. DUNSTER STRUGGLES ON ι650-1654 (1936) (0)
- A Vestibule: The Puritan Pronaos (1937) (0)
- Chapter Eleven. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REPUBLIC (1954) (0)
- The Young Man Washington: An Address Delivered at Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, February 22, 1932 (1933) (0)
- Square-Riggers on Schedule: The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports. By Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Princeton University. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1938. Pp. xii, 371. $3.50.) (1939) (0)
- The Japan Expedition 1852-1854. The Personal Journal of commodore Matthew C. Perry.@@@A Private Journal of John Glendy Sproston, U.S.N.@@@Trading Under Sail Off Japan, 1860-99. The Recollections of Captain John Baxter Will, Sailing-Master and Pilot. (1972) (0)
- Chapter Fifteen. JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY, 1829–1840 (1954) (0)
- Leif Eriksson, Discoverer of America, A.D. 1003 (1931) (0)
- Operation Victory@@@Bomber Offensive@@@History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (1948) (0)
- Chapter Twenty-three. THE CRUMBLING OF NATIONAL ISOLATION 1875–1900 (1954) (0)
- V. THE STUDENT AND HIS DAY ι640-1672 (1936) (0)
- III. 'TO INLARGE OUR ROOM' ι650-1672 (1936) (0)
- A prologue to American history (0)
- XVI. CHARLES CHAUNCY, PRESIDENT 1654-1672 (1936) (0)
- The Commonwealth History of Massachusetts. Vol. III. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1775-1820 (1929) (0)
- Chapter Three. THE MATERIALS OF HISTORY (1954) (0)
- From Clio with Love@@@Historians Against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing Since 1830@@@The German Historical School in American Scholarship: A Study in the Transfer of Culture@@@History. Humanistic Scholarship in America: The Princeton Studies@@@K (1966) (0)
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3: January 1, 1745 through June 30, 1750 (1961) (0)
- Christopher Columbus: Being the Life of the Very Magnificent Lord Don Cristobal Colon. By SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA. (New York: Macmillan Company. 1940. Pp. x, 524. $4.00.) (1940) (0)
- Chapter Seventeen. THE YEARS OF DECISION, 1848–1861 (1954) (0)
- XIII. HISTORY, THEOLOGY, AND MEDICINE (1936) (0)
- X. MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY (1936) (0)
- Chapter Five. HISTORICAL SOURCES (1954) (0)
- A Letter and a Few Reminiscences of Henry Adams (1954) (0)
- I Why the Log Cabin (1939) (0)
- Chapter Four. AIDS TO HISTORICAL RESEARCH (1954) (0)
- Reminiscences of Charles Eliot Norton (1960) (0)
- Chapter Twenty-four. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, 1900–1920 (1954) (0)
- History of U. S. Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. I, The Battle of the North Atlantic. (1948) (0)
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 8: April 1, 1758 through December 31, 1759 (1965) (0)
- Chapter Twenty-six. THE DIPLOMACY OF EXPANSION, 1900–1917 (1954) (0)
- Grand Strategy, Volume II, Sept. 1939-June 1941. (1958) (0)
- Chapter Two. RESEARCH AND WRITING (1954) (0)
- XII. METAPHYSICS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY (1936) (0)
- IV. Newfoundland to Massachusetts Bay (1939) (0)
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Volume IV, July 1, 1750, Through June 30, 1753; Volume V, July 1, 1753, Through March 31, 1755 (1963) (0)
- Chapter Twenty-one. NATIONAL POLITICS AND ECONOMIC TRENDS 1880–1900 (1954) (0)
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier@@@Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls (1952) (0)
- Chapter Fourteen. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EXPANSION, 1820–1860 (1954) (0)
- Chapter Twelve. REPUBLICAN SUPREMACY, 1801–1815 (1954) (0)
- Chapter Nine. FROM THE TREATY OF UTRECHT TO THE REVOLUTION (1954) (0)
- Elba Interlude, June 1944 (1957) (0)
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