Merle E. Curti

(1897-1996) born at Papillion, Sarpy County. Historian, educator, authored The Growth of American Thought and other books still in print, recipient of 1944 Pulitzer Prize in history. Consult International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Vol 18 (Free Press, 1979) 132-136 and American National Biography, Sup 1 (2002) 141-142.

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