Samuel E. Morison
Samuel E. Morison
Samuel Eliot Morison,was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and highly 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, a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography. In 1942, he was commissioned to write a history of United States naval operations in World War...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth9 July 1887
CountryUnited States of America
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.