Samuel Flagg Bemis
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Samuel Flagg Bemis (October 20, 1891 – September 26, 1973) was an American historian and biographer. For many years he taught at Yale University. He was also president of the American Historical Association and a specialist in American diplomatic history. He was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes. Jerald A. Combs says he was "the greatest of all historians of early American diplomacy."[1]
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Samuel Flagg Bemis | |
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Born | (1891-10-20)October 20, 1891 |
Died | September 26, 1973(1973-09-26) (aged 81) |
Spouse |
Ruth Marjorie Steele
(m. 1919) |
Children | Barbara Bemis Bloch (1921–2013) |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize (1927; 1950) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Doctoral advisor | Edward Channing |
Other advisors | J. Franklin Jameson |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Diplomatic history |
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Doctoral students | |
Notable works | Pinckney's Treaty: America's Advantage from Europe's Distress, 1783–1800, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, John Quincy Adams and the Union, The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy series |
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