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Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, emeritus, and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, has won a $51,000 award in history. The Prize was given him Thursday by the International Balzan Foundation of Zurich, Switzerland...
...award was announced by Professor Henri I. Marrou, French Historian from the University of Paris. Marrou called Morison the foremost authority on U.S. naval history, and a major contributor to American history from Christopher Columbus to World...
...Morison, who retired in 1955 after 40 years of Harvard teaching, said that the honor came as a complete surprise. "A newspaper reporter told me yesterday, and I got the telegram today, but that's all I know," he said. "I don't even know exactly what...
...economics, psychology. Last summer, E.S.I, scholars in such fields met to mull ideas that boil down to one main approach: use all the new scholarly tools for probing deeply ("postholing") into one specific situation, rather than skimming over great hunks of history at a time. As M.I.T. Historian Elting Morison, editor of Theodore Roosevelt's letters and a key E.S.I. scholar, put it: "It may be that a student can learn more about American Government by studying original materials to reconstruct a single case-say, the events surrounding the building of the battleship Kentucky in 1900-than by reading...
...Atlantic community, showing the web of European rivalries and relationships that influenced the colonies. Also under way: new courses in the classics, grade school and high school social studies. "I wouldn't be surprised if within 18 months we had materials ready for testing in schools," says Historian Morison. It will be none too soon...