The Samuel Eliot Morison bibliography contains a list of books and articles written by American historian Samuel Eliot Morison.
Books The following is a list of books written by Samuel Eliot Morison, arranged chronologically.
Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. A History of the Constitution of Massachusetts. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1917.
A Prologue to American History: An Inaugural Lecture. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922. Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764–1788, and the Formation of the Federal Constitution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923. The Class Lives of Samuel Eliot and Nathaniel Homes Morison, Harvard 1839. Boston: Privately printed, 1926. Oxford History of the United States. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1927. An Hour of American History: From Columbus to Coolidge. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1929. Builders of the Bay Colony. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. The Growth of the American Republic 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930.
Historical Background for the Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary in 1930. Boston: Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary, Inc., 1928, 1930. Historical Markers Erected by Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission. Texts of Inscriptions As Revised By Samuel Eliot Morison. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1930. The Proprietors of Peterborough, New Hampshire. Peterborough: Historical Society, 1930. The Young Man Washington. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1932. The Founding of Harvard College. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935. The Events of the Year MDCCCCXXXV. Boston: Merrymount Press, 1936. Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century. 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936. The Puritan Pronaos. New York: New York University Press, 1936.
Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636–1936. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936. The Pilgrim Fathers: Their Significance in History. Boston: Merrymount Press, 1937. Reprinted, Plymouth, MA: Plimouth Plantation, 1951. The Ancient Classics in a Modern Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. Doctor Morison's Farewell to the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Boston: Merrymount Press, 1939. The Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus. New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. Portuguese Voyages to America in the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1940. Admiral of the Ocean Sea. 2 vols. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. History As A Literary Art. Boston: Old South Association, 1946. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 15 vols. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947–62. These Forty Years. Boston: Privately printed, 1948. (Address to the 40th Reunion, Harvard Class of 1908) Ropemakers of Plymouth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–1647. Editor. New York: Knopf, 1952. By Land and By Sea. New York: Knopf, 1953. Christopher Columbus, Mariner. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Freedom in Contemporary Society. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956. The Story of the 'Old Colony' of New Plymouth, 1620–1692. New York: Knopf, 1956. Nathaniel Homes Morison. Baltimore: Peabody Institute, 1957. American Contributions to the Strategy of World War II. London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Strategy and Compromise. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958. William Hickling Prescott. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1958. John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. A New and Fresh English Translation of the Letter of Columbus Announcing the Discovery of America. Madrid: Graficas Yagues, 1959. The Story of Mount Desert Island, Maine. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1960. The Scholar in American: Past, Present, and Future. New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. Introduction to Whaler Out of New Bedford. New Bedford: Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1962.
Harvard Guide to American History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963. (with Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Frederick Merk, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., and Paul Herman Buck) A History of the Constitution of Massachusetts. Boston: Special Commission on Revision of the Constitution, 1963. The Two Ocean War. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. The Journals and other Documents Relating to the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Edited and Translated by Samuel Eliot Morison with illustrations by Lima de Freitas. New York: First Editions Club; Heritage Press, 1963. Reprinted Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1990. The Caribbean as Columbus Saw It. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. (with Mauricio Obregon) Vistas of History. New York: Knopf, 1964.
Spring Tides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Old Bruin: Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, 1796–1858. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. Life in Washington a Century and a Half Ago. Washington, DC: Cosmos Club, 1968. Harrison Gray Otis, 1765–1848: The Urbane Federalist. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. The European Discovery of America. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971–1974. Samuel de Champlain: Father of New France. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Francis Parkman. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1973. The Conservative American Revolution. Washington, DC: Society of the Cincinnati, 1976.
Articles The following is a list of articles written by Samuel Eliot Morison, arranged chronologically.
1900s
"The Kremlin of Moscow". Horae Scholasticae 36 (1902): 26–28.
1910s
"The First National Nominating Convention". American Historical Review 17 (1912): 744–63. "The Massachusetts Embassy to Washington, 1815". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 48 (1914–15): 343–51. "DuPont, Tallyrand, and the French Spoilations". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 49 (1915–16): 63–79. "The Struggle Over the Adoption of the Massachusetts Constitution, 1780". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 50 (1916–17): 353–411. "The Vote of Massachusetts on Summoning a Constitutional Convention, 1776–1916". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 50 (1916–17): 241–49. "Ephraim Eliot's Private Report of the Class of 1780". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 19 (1918): 290–95. "Harvard in the Colonial Wars, 1675–1748". Harvard Graduates' Magazine 26 (1918): 554–74. "The Eastern Baltic: (I) The Peace Conference and the Baltic; (II) Latvia; (III) Latvia, Continued; (IV) Esthonia; (V) Finland". The New Europe 12 (1919): 77–82, 127–32, 155–59, 200–205, 270–75. "The Property of Harrison Gray Otis, Loyalist". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 14 (1919): 320–50.
1920s
"The Education of John Marshall". Atlantic Monthly 126 (July 1920): 45–54. "The New Baltic Republics: (I) Esthonia and Latvia: (II) Lithuania and Finland". The Youth's Companion (7 October, 28 October 1920.) "Remarks on Economic Conditions in Massachusetts in 1780". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 20 (1920): 191–92. : 9–47; Washington Historical Quarterly 12 (1921–22): 166–201. "Custom–House Records in Massachusetts as a Source of History". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 54 (1920–21): 324–31. "Memoir of Alden Bradford". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 55 (1921–22): 153–64. "Memoir of Edward Henry Clement". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 56 (1922–23): 57–68. The Commerce of Boston on the Eve of the Revolution. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society New Series 31: 24–51. 1923 "Liberty and the Constitution". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Society of Sons of the Revolution (1923): 91–121. "The Old American Merchant Marine". The Landmark 5 (1923): 793–99. "Dr. Amos Windship, 1745–1813, The Biography of a Rascal". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 25 (1924): 141–71. "Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Ephraim Eliot and from Newspapers Relating to Seth Hudson and Joshua Howe". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 25 (1924): 40–43. "The Log of the Pilgrim, 1781–1782". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 25 (1924): 94–124. "The Origins of the Monroe Doctrine, 1775–1823". Economica 1 (February 1924): 27–51. "The Will of a Boston Slave". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 25 (1924): 253–54. "An American Professor's Reflections on Oxford". London Spectator (7 November, 14 November 1925). "Impressions of Harvard After Oxford". Harvard Alumni Bulletin 28 (1925–26): 917–20. "Sir Charles Vaughan's Viaticum of 1826". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 59 (1925–26): 377–414. "Charles Bagot's Notes on Housekeeping and Entertaining in Washington, 1819". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 26 (1927): 438–46. "New England and the Opening of the Columbia River Salmon Trade". Oregon Historical Quarterly 28 (1927): 111–32. "Nova Albion and New England". Oregon Voter (14 Aug. 1926), and Oregon Historical Quarterly 28 (1927): 1–17. "Robert Morris". Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin (15 December 1927.). "Did William Bradford Leave Leyden Before the Pilgrims". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 61 (1927–28): 34–39.0 "The Clipper Ships," in Albert Bushnell Hart (Ed.), Commonwealth History of Massachusetts. 5 vols. New York: State History Co., 1927–30: 4, 434–72. "Forcing the Dardanelles in 1810". New England Quarterly (1928): 208–25. "History". The History and Traditions of Harvard College. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Crimson, 1928. The India Ventures of Fisher Ames, 1794–1804. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society New Series 37: 14–23. 1928 "John Adams and Thomas Jefferson," New England Society of Pennsylvania, 47th Annual Report 1928, 51–67. "Squire Ames and Doctor Ames". New England Quarterly I (1928): 5–31. "Henry Dunster, First President of Harvard College". Harvard Alumni Bulletin 31 (1928–29): 335–98. "Two 'Signers' on Salaries and the Stage". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 62 (1928–29): 55–64. "Elbridge Gerry, Gentleman–Democrat". New England Quarterly 2 (1929): 6–33. "Notes from Maine". American Speech 4 (1929): 356. "Ragusa". Proceedings of the Hellenic Travellers' Club (1929): 145–57. "Jottings on John Harvard". Harvard Alumni Bulletin 32 (1929–30): 574–79. "Remarks" on Charles E. Banks, "Persecution as a Factor in Emigration [of the Puritans]". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 63 (1929–30): 151–54.
1930s
"The Autobiography of Thomas Shepherd with Introduction and Bibliography". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 27 (1930): 345–400. "History, 1838–1929," with Ephraim Emerson, Samuel Eliot Morison (editor), The Development of Harvard College Since the Inauguration of President Eliot. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930. "Sir Charles Firth and Master Hugh Peter, with a Hugh Peter Bibliography". Harvard Graduates' Magazine 39 (December 1930): 121–40. "Edward Channing: A Memoir". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 64 (1930–32): 250–84. "William Pynchon, the Founder of Springfield". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 64 (1930–32): 67–107. "Review of E.F. Gray's Lief Eriksson". With F.S. Crowley. New England Quarterly 4 (1931): 554–60. "Those Misunderstood Puritans". The Forum 85 (March 1931): 142–47. "The Course of the Arbella from Cape Sable to Salem". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 27 (1932): 285–306. "The Great Rebellion in Harvard College and the Resignation of President Kirkland". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 27 (1932): 54–112. "The Plantation of Nasaway––An Industrial Experiment". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 27 (1932): 204–22.