Edmund Sears Morgan (b. January 17, 1916, in Minneapolis), an eminent authority on early American history, is Professor of History emeritus at Yale University (1955-1986.) He has written many books covering a range of topics in the history of the colonial and Revolutionary periods, using intellectual, social, biographical and political history approaches. The books include Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988), which won Columbia University's Bancroft Prize in American History in 1989, and American Slavery, American Freedom (1975), which won the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize, the Southern Historical Association's Charles S. Sydnor Prize and the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award. Two of his early books, Birth of the Republic (1956) and The Puritan Dilemma (1958), have for decades been required reading in many undergraduate history courses. He has written biographies of Ezra Stiles, Roger Williams, Benjamin Franklin. January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Nickname: Motto: En Avant (French: Forward) Location in Hennepin County and the state of Minnesota Coordinates: , Country United States State Minnesota Counties Hennepin Government  - Mayor R.T. Rybak (DFL) Area  - City 58. ... “American history” redirects here. ... Emeritus (IPA pronunciation: or ) is an adjective that is used in the title of a retired professor, bishop or other professional. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Rev. ... Roger Williams could mean: Roger Williams University Roger Williams (theologian), co-founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams (soldier) Roger Williams (pianist), American pianist Roger Williams (UK politician), British politician Roger Williams (US politician), US Texas politician Roger Williams (hepatologist), a British liver specialist Roger Williams (trombonist) Roger Williams (activist) This... Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most well known Founding Fathers of the United States. ...

In 1971 he was awarded the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa's William Clyde DeVane Medal for outstanding teaching and scholarship, considered one of the most prestigious teaching prizes for Yale faculty. One year later, he became the first recipient of the Douglass Adair Memorial Award for scholarship in early American history, and in 1986 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Historical Association. He has also won numerous fellowships and garnered a number of honorary degrees and named lectureships. He became a Sterling Professor, one of Yale's highest distinctions, in 1965. Morgan was awarded the 2000 National Humanities Medal by the US President Bill Clinton at a ceremony for "extraordinary contributions to American cultural life and thought." In 2006, he received a Pulitzer Prize "for a creative and deeply influential body of work as an American historian that spans the last half century." ^[1] Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an honor society which considers its mission to be fostering and recognizing excellence in undergraduate liberal arts and sciences. ... A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his field. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. ... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ...

Morgan's own interest in history grew while he attended Belmont Hill School outside of Boston, and while he was an undergraduate at Harvard, where he went on to earn his Ph.D in 1942. At Harvard Morgan studied under Perry Miller. He began by teaching at the University of Chicago (1945-46) and then at Brown (1946-55) before becoming a professor at Yale. Belmont Hill School an all-boys preparatory school located on a 23 acre campus in Belmont, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. ... Harvard Yard Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, founded in 1636. ... Cover of Millers Errand into the Wilderness Perry Miller (1905-1963) was an American intellectual historian and Harvard University professor. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ...

Books

• Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century (1952)
• The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (1953), with Helen M. Morgan
• The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 (1956)
• The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (1958)
• The American Revolution: A Review of Changing Interpretations (1958)
• The Mirror of the Indian (1958)
• Editor, Prologue to the Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766 (1959)
• The National Experience: A History of the United States (1963) coauthor of textbook; several editions
• Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea (1963)
• Editor, The Founding of Massachusetts: Historians and the Sources (1964)
• The American Revolution: Two Centuries of Interpretation (1965)
• Puritan Political Ideas, 1558-1794 (1965)
• The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth, 1653-1657: The Conscience of a Puritan (1965)
• The Puritan Family (1966)
• Roger Williams: The Church and the State (1967)
• So What about History? (1969)
• American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975)
• The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson (1976)
• The Genius of George Washington (1980)
• The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795 (1984)
• Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988)
• Benjamin Franklin (2002)
• The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America (2004), collected articles and reviews

Reference

• John M. Murrin. "Edmund S. Morgan," in Robert Allen Rutland, ed. Clio's Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945-2000 U of Missouri Press. (2000) pp 126-137

Notes

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External links

• Morgan Bio at Yale
• Morgan bio on History News Network