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Dana Carleton Munro (June 8, 1866 – January 13, 1933) was an American
Archibald R. Lewis, "Duncalf, Frederick," ''Handbook of Texas Online''
accessed May 31, 2021. His son, Dana Gardner Munro, was also a historian.
Dana Carleton Munro (June 8, 1866 – January 13, 1933) was an American historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...
, brother of Wilfred Harold Munro, born at Bristol, R.I. He was educated at Brown
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(A.M., 1890) and in Europe
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at Strassburg
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and Freiburg
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. He taught at Penn (1893–1902), at Wisconsin
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until 1915, then at Princeton
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. He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society
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in 1901. Brown
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gave him the degree of Doctor of humane letters
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(L.H.D.) in 1912. He edited ''Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of History'' (1894–1902). He was co-author of ''Mediœval Civilization'' (1904, 1906) and ''Essays on the Crusades'' (1902).
Among the graduate students who studied under Munro were Bernadotte Everly Schmitt
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, William Ezra Lingelbach, Louis J. Paetow, and Frederick Duncalf.Louis J. Paetow (ed.), ''The Crusades, and other historical essays; presented to Dana C. Munro by his former students'' (New York: F. S. Crofts 1928)Archibald R. Lewis, "Duncalf, Frederick," ''Handbook of Texas Online''
accessed May 31, 2021. His son, Dana Gardner Munro, was also a historian.
Books
* ''A Syllabus of Mediœval History'' (seventh edition, 1913) * ''A History of the Middle Ages'' (1902) * ''A Source Book of Roman History'' (1904) * ''The Kingdom of The Crusaders'' (1935)References
External links
* * 1866 births 1933 deaths American book editors American essayists American historians Brown University alumni Historians of the Crusades Historians of the Children's Crusade Presidents of the American Historical Association People from Bristol, Rhode Island University of Pennsylvania faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America {{US-historian-stub