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Edmund S. Morgan

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January 17, 1916 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, The United States

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Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and one of America's leading historians. He has written more than a dozen books about early American history.

His American Slavery, American Freedom (1975) won him 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. He won the 1989 Bancroft Prize in American History for Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America . 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 bio...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 1,180 ratings · 157 reviews · 31 distinct works

	American Slavery, American Freedom 4.07 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Benjamin Franklin 3.43 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop 3.29 avg rating — 181 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789 by Edmund S. Morgan, Daniel J. Boorstin (Foreword by) 3.23 avg rating — 124 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America 3.64 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution by Edmund S. Morgan, Helen M. Morgan 3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1963 — 3 editions	My rating:
	American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America 3.51 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England 3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1942 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America 3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1963 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to read the books 'any old time they have a mind to,' libraries will remain the nurseries of heresy and independence of thought. They will, in fact, preserve that freedom which is a far more important part of our lives than any ideology or orthodoxy, the freedom that dissolves orthodoxies and inspires solutions to the ever-changing challenges of the future. I hope that your library and mine will continue in this way to be dangerous for many years to come.”
― Edmund S. Morgan, American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America

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