Samuel Eliot Morison.
United States admiral and historian (1887-1976)
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About Samuel Eliot Morison
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 (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959). 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 (1965), and co-authored the classic textbook The Growth of the American Republic (1930) with Henry Steele Commager.
Everything about Samuel Eliot Morison →- Occupation
- military officer, military historian, historian, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 9, 1887
- Died
- May 15, 1976