In the foreword to Yale: A Short History, Pierson described Yale as "at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends." Selected works Pierson's published writings encompass 38 works in 53 publications in 2 languages and 3,892 library holdings. His works are widely studied and are used frequently in most collegiate level U.S. history courses. Tocqueville and Beaumont in America (1938) The Frontier and Frontiersmen of Turner's Essays: a Scrutiny of the Foundations of the Middle Western Tradition (1940) American Historians and the Frontier Hypothesis in 1941 (1942) Yale: College and University : 1871–1937. (1952) The M-factor in American History (1962) Tocqueville in America (1969) The Education of American Leaders; Comparative Contributions of U.S. Colleges and Universities (1969) The moving American (1973) Lettres d'Amérique by Gustave de Beaumont, edited by George Pierson. (1973) Yale: a Short History (1976) Tocqueville's Visions of Democracy (1976) Yale Book of Numbers: Historical Statistics of the College, 1701–1976 (1983) The Founding of Yale : the Legend of the Forty Folios (1988) The History of the Georgica Association 1880–1948 (1992) The Bringing of the Mill (1942–1943) (1962) A Poose and its Neighbors, Episodes from the history of Georgica Pond and its bar (1992) Honors 1973 — Wilbur Cross medal. 1974 — William Clyde DeVane medal. Notes References Kennedy, Randy. "George Pierson, 88, A Professor at Yale And Its Historian," New York Times. October 15, 1993. Further reading Friend, Tad. (2009). Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, And the Last Days of Wasp Splendor.'' New York: Little, Brown and Co. ; External links George Wilson Pierson papers (MS 401). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. 1904 births 1993 deaths Yale University faculty