The Oxford History of the American People. Volume 2: 1789 Through Reconstruction
by Samuel Eliot Morison
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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 three-volume history of the institution, the Tercentennial show more 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) show less
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- The Oxford History of the American People. Volume 2: 1789 Through Reconstruction
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- 1965
- Epigraph
- I find the greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving ...
We must sail sometimes with the wind, an sometimes against it, -
but we MUST sail, and no... (show all)t drift, nor lie at anchor.
~Oliver Wendall Holmes
The Autocrat At The Breakfast Table - Dedication
- To my beloved wife
PRISCILLA BARTON MORISON
who has helped me to understand the moving forces in the history of our nation. - First words
- Washington's administrations were no less creative, and even more critical, than the six previous years.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Reconstruction:
A recent European historian of our Civil War remarked wryly that the Poles who were overrun in World War II, the central Europeans subjected to one totalitarian regime after another, the defeated Hungarian rebels of 1956, and the expropriated landowners and middle class in every communist state, including Cuba, would have considered the sufferings of the Southern white people a heavenly dispensation in comparison with theirs. - Disambiguation notice
- TOC:
This volume represents chapters XXI- XLIV of the hard cover edition published by Oxford university Press
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