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\"One could almost use the word momentous, or the word epoch-making though epoch-ending might be more to the point ... I don't see how anyone henceforth can repeat the old cliches which Beard put into circulation forty years ago.\"—Frederick B. Tolles, Swarthmore College. \"American historians, particularly those who have given lectures or written books based on the Beard thesis, ignore Brown's book at their peril.\"—American Historical Review. Originally published in 1956. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

\"We were angry and couldn't believe that this could be. We just couldn't believe it.\" \"It's a pretty hard falsehood to tell against the RAAF pilots, or the RAAF crew, and to put it in print, in a form that really lasts a long time, and it's very hard to retract once it's in print.\" \"I was astounded, I rang him up straight away: 'why didn't you get in touch with me before?'\"

This chapter discusses the connection between sexuality and conquest, particularly on the ideas envisioned in Samuel Eliot Morison's book, The Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus. Morison describes the American continents as a virginal woman and Spanish exploration as sexual conquest. He states that the colonizers showed up in Americas without their permission and laid claim to lands and people who could not object because they were not even aware that a claim was being made. Thus, rape would be an appropriate metaphor if one would describe their first meeting in sexual terms. In relation to this claim, the chapter explores the discourse of Carib cannibalism as gendered in a variety of complex ways. European writings about the New World demonstrated preconceived notions about proper displays of gender and sexuality, and these assumptions led them to construct Indians as inferior Others.

For generations of American schoolchildren, Columbus was the quintessential hero-explorer, an intrepid man who \"sailed the ocean blue in 1492\" and \"discovered America,\" overcoming doubts, shifting weather and mutinous crews to claim a new paradise in the name of Christianity and the Spanish crown. Even Samuel Eliot Morison's 1942 biography \"Admiral of the Ocean Sea,\" which was for many years the standard and largely unchallenged account of the explorer's life, does not sugarcoat the darker side of his exploits. Speaking of the Taino people on Hispaniola, Morison wrote in 1942: \"The fate of this gentle and almost defenseless people offers a terrible example to Americans who fancy they will be allowed to live in peace by people overseas who covet what they have.\"

Mainstream Publishing has withdrawn all copies of James Mackay's biography of John Paul Jones, the Scottish-born founder of the United States navy, after the writer was judged to have lifted material from an earlier book. Grove Atlantic, the publisher of the book in the US, destroyed 7,500 copies of I Have not yet Begun to Fight: A Life of John Paul Jones, after an independent report confirmed that Mackay, who has been accused by The Scotsman of plagiarising material for five of his books, had copied material from a book by Samuel Eliot Morison, an eminent US historian. It is the second time in two years that a Mackay book has been pulped by a US publisher. Last year, John Wiley withdrew its US edition of Mackay's biography of Alexander Graham Bell, which a US professor said was a near-direct copy of his book on the inventor.

As the planning progressed, however, \"Oregon got into the hands of the Army and emerged as Utah, which sounds the same -on the radio} as Omaha,\" [Samuel Eliot Morison] notes in his famed historical series on World War II. The U.S. Navy was never happy with Utah, Morison adds, \"but there is no evidence that the similarity created any confusion {on D-Day}.\" A logical reason for replacing Oregon with Utah was to prevent chaos while soldiers were in the English Channel. The sea force storming Omaha Beach was christened as naval Force \"O.\" By using Utah, the other naval assault group became Force \"U\" instead of a confusing, duplicate Force \"O\" for Oregon.

The Japanese struck back quickly. Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa hastily assembled a task force of five heavy cruisers and two light cruisers and in broad daylight raced south from Rabaul on New Britain to attack the Allied ships in Savo Sound. He intended to strike at night, both to surprise the enemy and to capitalize on the training of his crews in night operations. Blunders on the part of the Allies assisted him. According to [Samuel Eliot Morison]'s account, the Japanese were sighted by a Royal Australian Air Force patrol plane on the morning of Aug. 8, but the pilot failed to break radio silence and the Allied ships were unprepared for an enemy attack. Adm. Frank J. Fletcher chose this time to withdraw his three carriers, claiming they were short of fuel, thus leaving the transports and beachhead without air cover. The debacle was rooted in the failure of the Allied commanders to credit the intelligence provided to them by the RAAF patrol plane and other sources. Even more important, according to the Warners, some Allied officers were contemptuous of the enemy and failed to appreciate the capacity of the Japanese. In essence, racism had as much to do with the defeat as anything else.