George Wilson Pierson: Difference between revisions

Pierson attained his B.A. from Yale in 1926 and was awarded the Warren Memorial High Scholarship prize for the "highest standing in scholarship."<ref name="nyt1926" /> He earned his Ph.D. in history from Yale in 1933.<ref name="aya1973">Yale Alumni Association, [http://www.aya.yale.edu/content/medalists-department Medalists by Year, 1973]</ref> His dissertation was "Two Frenchmen in America, 1831–1832,"<ref>Yale History Department, [http://www.yale.edu/history/gradstudents/dissertations/1930-1939.html Dissertations 1930-1939] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918202649/http://www.yale.edu/history/gradstudents/dissertations/1930-1939.html |date=September 18, 2010 }}</ref> a study of the experiences of [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] and [[Gustave de Beaumont]] in the United States. It won the distinguished [[John Addison Porter]] Prize from the university for best work of scholarship that year.