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Jedidiah Morse (August 23, 1761 – June 9, 1826) was a geographer whose textbooks became a staple for students in the United States. He was the father of the telegraphy pioneer and painter Samuel Morse , and his textbooks earned him the sobriquet of "father of American geography."
27 de mar. de 2024 · Jedidiah Morse (born Aug. 23, 1761, Woodstock, Conn., U.S.—died June 9, 1826, New Haven, Conn.) was an American Congregational minister and geographer, who was the author of the first textbook on American geography published in the United States, Geography Made Easy (1784).
29 de may. de 2018 · Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), American geographer and clergyman, was most influential for his dissemination of geographical knowledge about the American continent. Jedidiah Morse was born in Woodstock, Conn., on Aug. 23, 1761, the son of a Congregationalist minister.
THE LEGACY OF JEDIDIAH MORSE IN EARLY AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION: FORGOTTEN AND/OR FORGETTABLE GEOGRAPHER? ROBERT V. ROHLI and MERRILL L. JOHNSON abstract. Despite numerous and significant writings by historians of geography and biographers from other disciplines, and his authorship of the first geography textbooks
Overview. Jedidiah Morse. (1761—1826) Quick Reference. (1761–1826), minister of the First Congregational Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, active in missionary work among the Native Americans and also in opposing emergent Unitarianism. Morse's Geography Made Easy (1784), long ...
by John H. Lienhard. Audio. Today, Jedidiah Morse's geography. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. We've said a lot about Samuel F. B. Morse and his telegraph.
Writings about Morse suggest that he had alienated himself from many of his contemporaries early in his career through his authoritarian brand of Calvinistic republicanism, a perceived contradiction of that style with his entrepreneurial ambitions, his role in the controversial Bavarian Illuminati, and a dispute with a noted New England historian.
