Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) was a leading American naval historian, biographer, and historian of Puritanism. Samuel Eliot Morison was born in Boston on July 9, 1887, into a prominent family with deep roots in the Massachusetts past. He attended...

Samuel Eliot Morison, the eminent Harvard historian, followed in the footsteps of many earlier historians who believed that history should be well written as well as accurate prose. Practicing this dictum, he produced more than forty volumes of widely...

By Gregory M. Pfitzer. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991. xx + 367 pages. Writing to Morison's family shortly after the historian's death in 1976, Arthur Schlesinger, jr., stated: "One feels that his death breaks a last link to the classic past. He...

LEAKS are the life-blood of Washington. Much that is published in the national press comes from government employees anxious to advance or demolish a cause, to gain the confidence of a journalist or merely to see their views in print. The United States...

In its 371-year history, Harvard University has been led by puritans and patriots, by clergymen and congressmen.But so far, the country's oldest and wealthiest university has never been led by a woman.That seems likely to change, in what would be a landmark for women in...

A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History, by Thomas Bender. Hill and Wang, 368 pages, $26. It takes a man with a certain singular talent to write a history of America empty of originality and devoid of insight. William J. Bennett...