Edmund Morgan (historian)
Edmund Sears Morgan (January 17, 1916 – July 8, 2013) was an American historian and an authority on early
American history. He was the
Sterling Professor of History at
Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986. He specialized in
American colonial history, with some attention to
English history. Thomas S. Kidd says he was noted for his incisive writing style, "simply one of the best academic prose stylists America has ever produced." He covered many topics, including
Puritanism, political ideas, the
American Revolution, slavery,
historiography, family life, and numerous notables such as
Benjamin Franklin.
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