Richard B. Morris

Richard Brandon Morris ( born July 24, 1904 in New York City; † March 3, 1989 ) was an American historian, known for work on the early American colonial history, the American Revolution and the early constitutional history of the United States.

Morris studied at the City College of New York with a bachelor 's degree in 1924 and from Columbia University with a master's degree in 1925 and his doctorate in Evarts Boutell Greene 1930. He taught from 1927 at the City College of New York and 1949 until his retirement in 1973 at Columbia University, where he chaired from 1959 to 1961 the history department.

Dissatisfied with the scientific echo the 200- year anniversary of the U.S. In 1977 he founded with James MacGregor Burns, the project 87 to the 200 - year celebration of the U.S. Constitution.

In 1988 he received the Bruce Catton Prize, and he won the 1966 Bancroft Prize for The Peacemakers (1965).

Writings

  • Henry Steele Commager editors: The spirit of Seventy- Six. Bonanza Books, New York 1958
  • Editor James Woodress: The Jeffersonians, 1801-1829. Webster Publishing, St. Louis 1961
  • Publisher: Encyclopedia of American History. 1953 edition Harper and Row 1982
  • Studies in the History of American Law, with Special Reference to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Columbia University Press, 1930 ( dissertation)
  • Government and Labor in Early America. Columbia University Press, 1946
  • The Peacemakers. The Great Powers and American Independence. Harper and Row, 1965
  • John Jay, the Nation and the Court Boston University Press, 1967
  • The Emerging Nations and the American Revolution. Harper and Row, 1970
  • Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries. Harper & Row, New York 1973 ( biographies of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton)
  • The American Revolution Reconsidered. Harper and Row, 1967 ( Phelps Lectures at New York University)
  • The Forging of the Union, 1781-1789. Harper and Row, 1987

He published and unpublished manuscripts of John Jay, the Columbia University had acquired.

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