William Hickling Prescott
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican historian and Hispanist (1796-1859)
William Hickling Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian.
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A bronze statue of Prescott's grandfather William Prescott in Charlestown, Massachusetts
Title pages of the History of Ferdinand and Isabella, 1838 edition
Depiction of Greenough's bust of Prescott in the June 1850 edition of Harper's new monthly magazine
Daguerreotype portrait of Prescott by M.B. Brady, c. 1848-1850![Prescott lived on Beacon Street, Boston, 1845-1859.[142]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/55_BeaconSt_Boston.png/330px-55_BeaconSt_Boston.png){kind=tracking}
Prescott lived on Beacon Street, Boston, 1845-1859.[142]Awards 1
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William Hickling Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. Despite having serious visual impairment, which at times prevented him from reading or writing for himself, Prescott became one of the most eminent historians of 19th-century America. He is also noted for his eidetic memory, also called "photographic memory".
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