Talk:Samuel Eliot Morison

Failure to discuss what Morison said that was offensive

I have looked through the archive and have browsed the varied posts there about Morison and racism and what is and isn't appropriate for a biography, etc., etc.

I have no interest in that fight.

What I am interested in, however, is what Morison wrote that is so offensive. Sure, the section on "Slavery" goes on about how African American scholars objected to certain views and statements from Morison's work, but it never in any way describes what those views or statements were. The reader is left feeling as though he has only seen half of the story and cannot give a critical eye to that section because the criticism is all that is present. This needs to change.

Philologick (talk) 03:38, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

SE Morison on Robert Calef, the Mathers, and some shameful aspects of the Mather history at Harvard

Just a note to those interested in this fellow that he has recently been discussed on the Talk page of the Robert Calef wiki article. I have been disappointed to find SE Morison's contributions to this particular discussion in the 1930s naive and/or ignorant and easily disproven when applying what Morison himself might call "proper historic method." But I cannot comment on Morison's work as a scholar other than this one issue, where superstitious theological yearnings managed to fatally undermine rational jurisprudence, and which (unlike say GL Burr) does not seem to have been a primary interest of Morison.