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DIED. Frederick Merk, 90, onetime head of the Harvard history department and author of Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History (1963); of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. From 1923 until his retirement in 1957, he taught a famous course-known to generations of students as "Wagon Wheels" or "Cowboys and Indians"-that traced the settlement of the American West...
Frederick Merk, Gurney Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science and a famous expert on American westward expansion, died of a heart attack Saturday in Cambridge. He was 90 years...
...Merk, who taught at Harvard between 1918 and 1957, was renowned both for his profoundly influential works of scholarship and his consistently popular lectures...
...stop eight men as rapidly as possible under bad lighting conditions-an impossible task. The small German force of police held back for more than an hour after the first shots were fired. Some of the 500 German soldiers on hand, who were under control of Interior Minister Bruno Merk of the Bavarian government, were being used to control crowds on the perimeter of the airfield. They would have been more usefully employed in assaulting the helicopters. By holding back after committing themselves, the Germans wasted their advantage of surprise...
...been 14 years since The Harvard Guide to American History, first assembled in 1896, was revised by Handlin, Arthur Schlesinger, Samuel Eliot Morison, Frederick Merk, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Paul H. Buck. In what was the kitchen of the house the Warren Center now lives in, Richard K. Showman, formerly in charge of educational exhibits at Sturbridge Village, is working full-time to bring the bibliography up to date, under the general supervision of Frank Freidel...