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Class
4. Humanities[X]
1Name:  Lyman Henry Butterfield
 Year Elected:  1964
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1909
 Death Date:  4/25/82
   
2Name:  Dr. Edmund S. Morgan
 Institution:  Yale University
 Year Elected:  1964
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1916
 Death Date:  July 8, 2013
   
 
Edmund Morgan, Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University, wrote dozens of books on Puritan and early colonial history. Acclaimed for both their scholarly focus and their appeal to a general audience, his books include Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988), which won Columbia University's Bancroft Prize in American History in 1989, and American Slavery, American Freedom (1975), which won the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize, the Southern Historical Association's Charles S. Sydnor Prize and the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award. Two of his early books, Birth of the Republic (1956) and The Puritan Dilemma (1958) were for decades required reading in many school history courses. Dr. Morgan's other works include biographies of Ezra Stiles and Roger Williams as well as a book on George Washington. He is a truly significant interpreter of the colonial period of American history whose skills of analysis and presentation encompass political, intellectual and social history. Edmund Morgan died July 8, 2013, at the age of 97 in New Haven, Connecticut.
 
3Name:  Dr. William Roach
 Institution:  University of Pennsylvania
 Year Elected:  1964
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1907
 Death Date:  7/30/93
   
4Name:  Dr. Kurt Weitzmann
 Institution:  Princeton University & Institute for Advanced Study
 Year Elected:  1964
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  402. Criticism: Arts and Letters
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1904
 Death Date:  6/7/93
   
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1964[X]