Vernon louis parrington biography for kids

American literary historian (1871-1929)

Vernon Louis Parrington (August 3, 1871 – June 16, 1929)^[1] 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.

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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.

Early life and education

Born in Aurora, Illinois, to a Republican family that soon moved to Emporia, Kansas, Parrington attended the College of Emporia and Harvard University, receiving his B.A.

from the latter institution in 1893. He did not undertake graduate study. He was appalled by the hard