I need a biography of the author Edmund S. Morgan?

Answer 1

Edmund Sears Morgan (b. 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 on Puritan and colonial history, many of which have appealed to a mass audience. These 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 American undergraduate history courses. The historian's other works include biographies of Ezra Stiles and Roger Williams, and a book on George Washington.

Answer 2

Edmund Sears Morgan Born 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 on Puritan and colonial history, many of which have appealed to mass audience. These 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 Assoc. Charles S. Sydnor Prize and the American Historical Assoc. Albert J. Beveridge Award.
Morgan's own interest in history grew 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. Since he became a historian, he has witnessed a major change in his field. He began by teaching at the University of Chicago (1945-46) and then at Brown (1946-55) before becoming a professor at Yale.

Morgan Bio at Yale http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/morgan.html
Morgan bio on History News Network
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/24049.html

Answer 3

Book results for Edmund S. Morgan biography
Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979 - by John G Reid - 240 pages
Invisible Giants - edited by Mark C. Carnes - 316 pages
The Great Melody - by Conor Cruise O'Brien - 768 pages

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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