Vernon Louis Parrington

Vernon Louis Parrington was an American literary historian, scholar, and college football coach. His three-volume history of American letters, Main Currents in American Thought, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1928 and was one of the most influential books for American historians of its time. Parrington taught at the College of Emporia, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Washington. He was also the head football coach at the College of Emporia from 1893 to 1896 and Oklahoma from 1897 to 1900. Parrington founded the American studies movement in 1927.

3 August 1871

Born on the same birth day (3 August): Anthony Sampson • Darya Domracheva • Derwin James • Georgy Shonin • Haystacks Calhoun • Konstantin Melnikov • Lawrence Brown (jazz trombonist) • Leigh Tiffin • Maithili Sharan Gupt • Matt Joyce (baseball) • Nick Harvey • Philip Casnoff • Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria • Ralph Wright (footballer) • Tasmin Archer • Tony Pashos • Travis Bowyer

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