Quote of the day
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
Lewis H. Morgan
Born: November 21, 1818
Died: December 17, 1881 (aged 63)
Bio: Lewis Henry Morgan was a pioneering American anthropologist and social theorist who worked as a railroad lawyer. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Iroquois.
Known for:
- Ancient Society (1877)
- League of the Ho-de-no sau-nee, or Iroquois (1851)
- The American Beaver and His Works (1868)