Columbus and the American problem Oct 12, 2009
Chief sponsor of a narrowly secular assessment of Columbus was his most important 20th-century biographer, Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison. My main concern is with the Columbus of action, the Discoverer, Morison openly declared. (Boston Globe)
Today in History Jul 4, 2009
Thought for Today: "If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile." Samuel Eliot Morison, American historian (1887-1976) ... Samuel Eliot Morison. (Yahoo News)
Cold War Without End Jul 1, 2009
Harvard s Samuel Eliot Morison used his 1950 American Historical Association presidential address, Faith of a Historian, to scold Beard for failing to ready his countrymen for combat. Beard, he argued, taught that no war was necessary and no war did any good. (The American Conservative)
Editorial Notebook: A day to recall many sacrifices May 25, 2009
Samuel Eliot Morison writes of the kamikazes in his history of the U.S. Navy in World War II: "Few missiles or weapons have ever spread such flaming terror, such torturing burns, such searing death, as did the kamikaze in his self-destroying onslaughts on the radar picket and other ships.". Adm. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
