Samuel Flagg Bemis | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 20, 1891 |
| Died | September 26, 1973 (aged 81) |
| Spouse |
Ruth Marjorie Steele
(m. 1919) |
| Children | Barbara Bemis Bloch (1921–2013) |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize (1927; 1950) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Channing |
| Other advisors | J. Franklin Jameson |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Diplomatic history |
| Institutions | |
| Doctoral students | |
| Notable works | Pinckney's Treaty: America's Advantage from Europe's Distress, 1783–1800, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, John Quincy Adams and the Union, The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy series |
Samuel Flagg Bemis (October 20, 1891 – September 26, 1973) was an American historian and biographer. For many years he taught at Yale University. He was also president of the American Historical Association and a specialist in American diplomatic history. He was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes. Jerald A. Combs says he was "the greatest of all historians of early American diplomacy."[1]