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.

Works

(Most of these have been reprinted and reissued numerous times.)

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• The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, Federalist, 1765–1848 (1913)
• The Oxford History of the United States (1927)
• The Growth of the American Republic (with Henry Steele Commager) (1930)
• ' (Harvard University Press, 1936)
• ' (1942)
• History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (1947–1962)
• Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–1647 (ed.) (1952)
• ' (Little, Brown, 1959)
• The Story of Mount Desert Island (1960)
• The Two-Ocean War (1963)
• The Oxford History of the American People (1965)
• Builders of the Bay Colony (1930)
• ' (1971)
• ' (1972)
• ' (1974)
• A Concise History of the American Republic (with Henry Steele Commager and William E. Leuchtenberg) (1976)