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{{Short description|American historian (1866–1933)}}
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[[File:Dana-C.-Munro-1904.jpg|thumb|Dana Carleton Munro, circa 1904]]

'''Dana Carleton Munro''' (June 8, 1866 – January 13, 1933) was an American [[historian]], brother of [[Wilfred Harold Munro]], born at [[Bristol, Rhode Island|Bristol, R.I.]]  He was educated at [[Brown University|Brown]] (A.M., 1890) and in [[Europe]] at [[University of Strasbourg|Strassburg]] and [[University of Freiburg|Freiburg]].  He taught at [[University of Pennsylvania|Penn]] (1893–1902), at [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|Wisconsin]] until 1915, then at [[Princeton University|Princeton]].<ref name="upenn" /> He was elected as a member to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1901.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1901&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-05-19|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> [[Brown University|Brown]] gave him the degree of [[Doctor of humane letters]] (L.H.D.) in 1912.  He edited ''Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of History'' (1894–1902).  He was co-author of ''Mediœval Civilization'' (1904, 1906) and ''Essays on the Crusades'' (1902).

Among the graduate students who studied under Munro were [[Bernadotte Everly Schmitt]], William Ezra Lingelbach, Louis J. Paetow, and Frederick Duncalf.<ref>Louis J. Paetow (ed.), ''The Crusades, and other historical essays; presented to Dana C. Munro by his former students'' (New York: F. S. Crofts 1928); [https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/duncalf-frederick Archibald R. Lewis, "Duncalf, Frederick," ''Handbook of Texas Online''], accessed May 31, 2021.</ref>

His son, Dana Gardner Munro, was also a historian.

==Books==
* ''A Syllabus of Mediœval History'' (seventh edition, 1913)
* ''A History of the Middle Ages'' (1902)
* ''A Source Book of Roman History'' (1904)
* ''The Middle Ages, 395–1272'' (1921)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=E. |first=E. |date=1922 |title=Review of The Middle Ages, 395-1272 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1837809 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=545–546 |doi=10.2307/1837809 |issn=0002-8762|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* ''The Kingdom of The Crusaders''  (1935)

==References==
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