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...OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The historian-admiral draws heavily on his earlier works to portray the sweep of the history of all American peoples. His perspective on recent history is naturally close-up and highly personal, but the book is admirable and solidly readable nonetheless...
Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumball Professor of American History Emeritus, and author of a history of Harvard College, explained Thursday that the legend of the cow privilege derived from a century-old painting of such a creature grazing near Hollis Hall. The Boylston Professor, who was living there at the time, encouraged the rumor that the cow was his special privilege and it became legend...
Mongols & Puritans. The book is heavily indebted to retired Admiral Morison's earlier works; in fact, it is built largely around their sturdy bones...
...best, Morison has the power to lift his country's past from textbook constriction and invest it with his own insight and understanding. He is notably effective in writing about the Puritan settlers, whom he interestingly compares with 19th century Roman Catholic Americans, about the vigorous life of the colonial seaports, about the true spirit of the American Revolution "a civil war," he calls it, reluctantly entered upon by men who "were thinking of preserving and securing the freedom they already enjoyed." Yet he is oddly disappointing on the Civil War, and some of his afterthoughts seem to trespass...
Freeways & Broadway. Although the book is terse and sometimes cramped, Morison takes time for digressions-for instance, an unimportant but charming section on the sporting life of New England gentlemen. Perhaps the book's dominant note is nostalgia, and Morison avoids involvement in most concerns of other historical theorists, including the urbanization of America, the new influence of the Supreme Court...