deaths
September 26, 1973
Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author (born 1891)
Samuel Flagg Bemis
Samuel Flagg Bemis 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."