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	Samuel Eliot Morison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samuel Eliot Morison, RAdm, USNR (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian, notable for producing scholarly works that were both authoritative and highly readable, an ability recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes.
		Born in Boston, Massachusetts to John Holmes Morison (1856–1911) and Emily Marshall Eliot (1857–1925) and named for his grandfather Samuel Eliot, he attended Harvard University, acquiring a BA in 1908 and a Ph.D. in 1912.
		Morison combined his personal interest in sailing with his professional activities when he chartered a boat and sailed to the various places that Christopher Columbus had supposedly visited.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Eliot_Morison (437 words)

	Samuel Eliot Morison / History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 8
		Morison had access to records of all naval activities, afloat and ashore, and to official documents, and he was given authority to discuss them with all naval personnel concerned.
		Morison's history is generously illustrated with maps, charts, and many candid photographs that intensify the reader's sense of being in the middle of the action.
		Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) was Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and the author or editor of more than fifty books, including Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, The European Discovery of America, and the multi-volume Oxford History of the American People.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /s02/morison8.html (324 words)

	Boots & Sabers - The blogging will continue until morale improves... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Samuel Eliot Morison was a naval officer and historian assigned by the U.S. Navy to travel with naval units throughout the war documenting operations for the historical record.
		Morison's work covers even the most minute operations of the war, and does a thorough job of presenting the action from his perspective and the perspective of those present.
		Second, because of Morison's relationship with the subject matter and the source which commissioned the series (the U.S. Navy), the history tends to gloss over or fail to acknowledge some of the more controversial subjects which would not be flattering to the Navy.
	www.bootsandsabers.com /index.php/weblog/comments_w_sidebars/2660 (273 words)

	Morison, Samuel Eliot -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Samuel Eliot Morison used his experience as a sailor in the United States Navy to write books on the nation's naval history.
		Eliot, Charles W. When Charles W. Eliot became the president of Harvard University in 1869, higher education emphasized principally mathematics and the classics.
		Eliot was one of the first to reject conventional verse forms and language.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9312573?tocId=9312573 (796 words)

	USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13), the seventh Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, was named for Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), one of America's most distinguished naval historians, who wrote more than 40 books on naval history.
		On 11 April 2002, Samuel Eliot Morison was decommissioned and transferred to Turkey, where she was renamed TCG Gökova (F 496) and joined the other Gaziantep-class (Perry-class) frigates that the Turkish Navy has acquired from the United States.
		Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13) was the first ship of that name in the US Navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Samuel_Eliot_Morison_(FFG-13) (240 words)

	Samuel Eliot Morison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR (July 9, 1887 - May 15, 1976) was an American historian, notable for producing both authoritative scholarship and highly readable, an ability recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes.
		Born in Boston, Massachusetts to John H. Morison(?) and Emily Marshall Eliot Morison, he attended Harvard University, acquiring a BA in 1908 and a Ph.D in 1912 (or 1913?).
		Although he taught at University of California, Berkeley and Oxford University (1922-1925), he spent most of his 40-year career at Harvard, starting in 1915, becoming Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History in 1941, and retiring in 1955.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /s/sa/samuel_eliot_morison.html (310 words)

	Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1926, Morison was appointed the official historian of Harvard and commenced to write the Tercentennial History of Harvard College and University, which was completed in 1936 in three volumes.
		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 (he retired from the navy in 1951 as a rear admiral).
		Although he retired from Harvard in 1955, Morison continued his research and writing.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mo/MorisonSE.html (258 words)

	FFG 13 Samuel Eliot Morison
		Samuel Eliot Morison's mission is to provide in-depth anti-air, anti- submarine, and anti-surface warfare protection for Underway Replenishment Groups, convoys, Amphibious Forces, and other military and merchant shipping.
		The torch is an emblem of enlightenment and leadership, and the crossed sword and cutlass, symbols of Surface Warfare Officer and Enlisted professionalism, allude to vigilance and readiness.
		Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR (1887 - 1976) was one of the nation's most distinguished naval historians.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/ffg-13.htm (1051 words)

	John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography by Samuel Eliot Morison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Morison’s interest in naval history is deep, broad, and extends to detail, and detail, and yet again, detail.
		Morison seems to have sorted out as much as possible to his satisfaction by studying original sources on both sides of the Atlantic.
		Morison took the legend and set it straight with scholarship and probably intuition born of deep familiarity with his subject.
	www.seawaves.com /bookreviews/John_Paul_Jones.htm (1504 words)

	MHS \| Samuel Eliot Morison Papers, 1868-1969 : Offsite Storage Inventory
		Samuel Eliot Morison was a Rear Admiral USNR, professor of American History at Harvard University from 1915-1955, maritime historian, and author.
		The Samuel Eliot Morison papers consist primarily of manuscripts of his books, articles, and addresses, 1952-1965, including correspondence, notes, photostats and copies of original materials relating to his work, typescripts, proofs, galleys, and photographs.
		Samuel Eliot in 1868 (with Harrison Gray Otis materials); correspondence with Mrs.
	www.masshist.org /findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0123 (369 words)

	Harvard University Press/The Founding of Harvard College/Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Samuel Eliot Morison was Professor of History at Harvard University.
		The author, Samuel Eliot Morison, was professor of history at Harvard University and winner of two Pulitzer prizes.
		In addition, the book is fascinating...Although it was written over sixty years ago, this book is still an important source for the early history of American education, and it is a tribute to the historiographical skills of the author.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /reviews/MORFOX_R.html (171 words)

	Samuel Eliot Morison Biography / Biography of Samuel Eliot Morison Main Biography
		Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) was a leading American naval historian, biographer, and historian of Puritanism.
		Samuel Eliot Morison was born in Boston on July 9, 1887, into a prominent family with deep roots in the Massachusetts past.
		Morison became the first Harmsworth professor of American history at Oxford in 1922, a positio.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography-samuel-eliot-morison (247 words)

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		Morison relates that on the eve of the first class he had been so fascinated by the subject that he had not gone beyond Columbus.
		Morison describes the meaning of that season in what would be difficult for the most ardent Catholic to match: "Holy Week in Seville, with its alternation of abject humility and superb pride, penance and pardon, death and victory seemed at once a symbol and a fitting conclusion to his great adventure.
		Morison provides a brief quotation, usually in Latin with an English translation, and the majority of them from Scripture -- many from the psalms, which give a key to the subject ahead.
	www.ewtn.com /library/HOMELIBR/MORISON.TXT (1321 words)

	John Paul Jones A Sailor s Biography Bluejacket Books :: John Paul Jones A Sailor s Biography Bluejacket Books books, ...
		Samuel Eliot Morison, Dudley Wright Knox "History of United States Naval Operations in World War II : The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943".
		Samuel Eliot Morison, Erwin Raisz, Bertram Greene "Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus".
		Samuel Eliot Morison, William E. Leuchtenburg, Henry S. Commager "The Growth of the American Republic, Vol.
	www.sciencefictionclassics.com /382023samuel_eliot_morison_james_c_bradford.html (300 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Christopher Columbus, Mariner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		While Morison does admit to the genocide of the Indians lead by Columbus and his henchmen, it idolizes him for the duration of the book.
		He was a normal person,seeking a place in the world.The readers also get the chance to balance on the edge of their seats as Columbus deals with mutiny,battles with cannibals, befriends natives, and rescues beautiful girls.
		Morison makes the conclusion that Columbus was an extroardinary seaman and mariner, and he would have been best served if he had stuck with only that.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452009928?v=glance (994 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Thomas F. Mulvoy Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The base of the lovely statue of Samuel Eliot Morison on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall near Exeter Street offers no information about him other than that he was a historian and a sailor.
		Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) earned a front-row seat in the ranks of eminent Bostonians, even if he did most of his famous work while ensconced across the Charles.
		Morison retired from the Navy in 1951 as a rear admiral, a title that gave him great pleasure for the remaining 25 years of his life.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2003/09/07/thomas_f_mulvoy_jr?mode=PF (461 words)

	Morison: The Founding of Harvard College (RJO's Reviews)
		Samuel Eliot Morison on the History of Harvard University
		Its traditions and organizational structure have had a profound influence on the development of higher education in America, and many of its graduates have been prominent figures in the history of the nation and the world.
		Samuel Eliot Morison, a member of Harvard’s class of 1908 and one of the great American historians of the mid-twentieth century, wrote this book as a tribute to his alma mater on the occasion of its 300th anniversary.
	rjohara.net /reviews/morison.html (339 words)

	Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Samuel Eliot Morison (1887 - 1976) A. B., Harvard (1908), Ph.
		Morison was commissioned by President Roosevelt to write the official history of the U. Navy in WW II, and he retired from the Navy in 1951 with the rank of Rear Admiral.
		Admiral Morison was a descendant of Mary Collier/Joseph Spear, of Hull, and U. Senator Harrison Gray Otis, of Boston.
	familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/c/o/l/Wade-Collier-MA/PHOTO/0079photo.html (103 words)

	Samuel Eliot Morison on the Harvard University House System
		In reading this account, keep in mind that Morison was writing only six years after the first of the houses had opened and so his perspective was limited.
		But it is worth noting that even in that short period of time Morison saw the houses develop active social lives and identities.
		The other five were ready the next year: Eliot House, under Professor Roger B. Merriman as master, was built on the site of the old power house in the angle between Boylston Street and Memorial Drive.
	collegiateway.org /reading/morison-1936 (1444 words)

	Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (Part 2/8 Audio Cassettes) by Samuel Eliot Morison - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Morison is famous for making the same journey that Columbus made with largely the same equipment in order to prepare for writing this book.
		As is the case with any great biography, Morison has become enamored with his subject, highlighting his strengths and successes while downplaying his weaknesses and failures, but you know that going into any biography and can adjust your interpretation accordingly.
		Morison (RIP) was in love with Columbus, thus, don't hold your breath waiting to find out details of the natives' Holocauts (yes).
	pdxbooks.com /compare/0786107243 (800 words)

	Samuel_Eliot_Morison
		Samuel Eliot Morison, RAdm, USNR (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian, notable for producing scholarly works that were both authoritative and highly readable, an ability recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes.
		Born in Boston, Massachusetts to John Holmes Morison (1856–1911) and Emily Marshall Eliot (1857–1925), he attended Harvard University, acquiring a BA in 1908 and a Ph.D. in 1912.
		Although he taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Oxford University (1922–1925), he spent most of his 40-year career at Harvard, starting in 1915, becoming the Johnathan Trumbull Professor of American History in 1941, and retiring in 1955.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Samuel_Eliot_Morison (355 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Samuel Eliot Morison
		Harvard historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Samuel Eliot Morison wrote, "The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide," and "the natives were reduced to a species of slavery or serfdom and declined in numbers catastrophically.".
		Cronkite was at the Boston Harbor Hotel last night to receive the Samuel Eliot Morison Award from the board of trustees of the USS Constitution Museum.
		Historian Samuel Eliot Morison dryly noted that "if the history of the Dighton Rock is nothing else, it is a remarkable demonstration of human credulity.").
	authors.surfwax.com /files/Samuel_Eliot_Morison_Book.html (504 words)

	Books / Samuel Eliot Morison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Morison, a Harvard history professor, was actually there.
		Admiral Morison (as he is referred to in Stephen Ambrose's history of D-Day) tells this story...
		Morison was a fine historian, and this book tells a vital chapter of the history of WW II that is almost forgotten today, midst accounts of more dramatic sea battles like Midway, Leyte Gulf, and of course, Pearl...
	www.butterflits.com /flits/authorsearch_Samuel%20Eliot%20Morison/mode_books (649 words)

	All Hands - September 2000 - ATF - USS Samuel Eliot Morison Seizes Five Tons of Narcotics in Two Weeks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Operating as part of a Federal Joint Interagency Task Force, USS Samuel Eliot Morison's surface, air and law enforcement team has been aggressively tracking, pursuing and seizing illegal narcotic shipments as part of their five-month deployment to U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command headquartered at Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico.
		LCDR Lew Wright, Morison's executive officer, remarked that the evolution "was a real demonstration of teamwork, particularly in retrieving a long string of contraband spread out for about two miles, marked by smoke floats from one end to another."
		USS Samuel Eliot Morison, based in Mayport, Fla., was in the last month of the deployment to the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean.
	www.mediacen.navy.mil /pubs/allhands/sep00/pg6g.htm (348 words)

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