The Founding of Harvard College

With a new foreword by Hugh Hawkins

Samuel Eliot Morison

Foreword by Hugh Hawkins

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samuel Eliot Morison traces the roots of American universities in Europe, providing "a lively contemporary perspective...a realistic picture of the founding of the first American university north of the Rio Grande" [Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune].

Samuel Eliot Morison was Professor of History at Harvard University. His books won two Pulitzer Prizes.