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Frederick Merk will give his last Harvard College lecture this morning in Harvard Hall...
STEELE studied American history under the Arthur Schlesingers (father and son), Frederick Merk and Samuel E. Morison as a Nieman Fellow (1951-52) at Harvard and likes to think of himself as an amateur historian. His specialty was the Revolutionary War, but now he is a Civil War buff. On weekends at Gettysburg he has tramped over the battlefields near the President's farm, armed with a huge folding map and binoculars, sometimes studying with Dr. Frederick Tilberg, chief historian at Gettysburg, at other times with his 13-year-old daughter Debby and nine-year-old son Larry...
...Professor Merk combines excellent delivery with an organizational knack to tell how great-grandpa began it all years ago. Making interesting use of historical society journals, History 162 gallops through the Westward movement in Harvard...
History 61b is the second half of the basic American history survey course, covering the period since 1865. Frederick Merk, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, and Wilbur J. Bender, lecturer on History, will continue to give History 61a, the first half of the course...
...authors are Oscar Handlin, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Samuel E. Morison, Frederick Merk, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, and Paul H. Buck, all professors of History...