Edmund S. Morgan (1916–2013)
Author of American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
About the Author
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Edmund Morgan spent most of his youth in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was educated at the Belmont Hill School, Harvard, and the London School of Economics. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1942 and three years later began his teaching career at the University show more of Chicago.From there he moved first to Brown University and then to Yale, where he became Sterling Professor in 1965 and emeritus in 1986. Morgan's historical writings greatly enhance our understanding of such complex aspects of the American experience as Puritanism, the Revolution, and the relationship between slavery and racism. At the same time, they captivate readers in the classroom and beyond. His work is a felicitous blend of rigorous scholarship, imaginative analysis, and graceful presentation. Although sometimes characterized as the quintessential Whig historian, in reality Morgan transcends simplistic categorization and has done more, perhaps, than any other historian to open new and creative paths of inquiry into the meaning of the early American experience. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Edmund S. Morgan
The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England (1944) 392 copies, 3 reviews
The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson (1976) 144 copies, 4 reviews
Prologue to revolution; sources and documents on the Stamp act crisis, 1764-1766 (1972) 41 copies, 1 review
Associated Works
Propyläen-Weltgeschichte - Band 7: Von der Reformation zur Revolution (1976) — Contributor — 25 copies
The Development of a Revolutionary Mentality: Papers Presented at the First Library of Congress Symposium on the… (1972) — Contributor — 22 copies
The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective, Second Edition (1978) — Contributor — 15 copies
The diary of Michael Wigglesworth, 1653-1657; the conscience of a Puritan (1965) — Editor — 11 copies
Propyläen Weltgeschichte — Band 7.2: Von der Reformation zur Revolution (1976) — Contributor — 6 copies
The colonial scene, 1602-1800 — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Canonical name
- Morgan, Edmund S.
- Legal name
- Morgan, Edmund Sears
- Other names
- Morgan, Edmund
- Birthdate
- 1916-01-17
- Date of death
- 2013-07-08
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Place of death
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Places of residence
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Education
- Harvard University (BA|1937|Ph.D|1942)
London School of Economics - Occupations
- historian
professor - Relationships
- Morgan, Edmund Morris (father)
Wohlstetter, Roberta (sister) - Organizations
- Yale University
Brown University
University of Chicago
Organization of American Historians - Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize (Special Citation, 2006)
National Humanities Medal (2000)
American Philosophical Society (1964)
American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1966)
Bancroft Prize (1989)
William Clyde DeVane Medal (1971) (show all 13)
Francis Parkman Prize (1976)
Charles S. Sydnor Prize (1976)
Albert J. Beveridge Prize (1976)
Douglass Adair Memorial Award (1972)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters (History, 2008)
Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement (1992)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1990)
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Statistics
- Works
- 32
- Also by
- 12
- Members
- 6,118
- Popularity
- #4,024
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 55
- ISBNs
- 112
- Languages
- 4
- Favorited
- 9