Edmund S. Morgan
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Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (September 2007)
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September 27, 2007: A Very Satisfied Survivor
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley
April 26, 2007: Our Shaky Beginnings
Captain John Smith: Writings with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America by Captain John Smith
The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America by Benjamin Woolley
A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and theBirth of America by James Horn
Jamestown: The Buried Truth by William M. Kelso
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown by Helen C. Rountree
November 16, 2006: Inventing the 'Liberal Republican' Mind
Dangerous Nation by Robert Kagan
August 10, 2006: Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
December 15, 2005: Henry Adams's Theme (letter)
December 1, 2005: History from Below (letter)
November 17, 2005: The Unread Masterpiece
Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
September 22, 2005: The Other Founders
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America by Gary B. Nash
March 10, 2005: Bill of Wrongs
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone
The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review by Larry D. Kramer
November 4, 2004: The Election and America's Future
September 23, 2004: The Whirlwind
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
May 27, 2004: A New Kind of War
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
March 11, 2004: 'Inventing a Nation' (letter)
December 18, 2003: A Tract for the Times
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal
Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal
Burr by Gore Vidal
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta by Gore Vidal
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated by Gore Vidal
The Last Empire: Essays, 1992–2000 by Gore Vidal
Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952–1972 by Gore Vidal
April 10, 2003: A Very Popular Penalty
The Death Penalty: An American History by Stuart Banner
June 27, 2002: Those Sexy Puritans
Sexual Revolution in Early America by Richard Godbeer
February 14, 2002: The Fastest Killer
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82 by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox by Jonathan B. Tucker
May 31, 2001: The Price of Honor
The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s–1880s Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Honor and Slavery Kenneth S. Greenberg
October 19, 2000: In Love with Guns
Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture by Michael A. Bellesiles
July 20, 2000: Back to Basics
Serving the Word: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bench by Vincent Crapanzano
May 11, 2000: How the French Lost America
The Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson
March 9, 2000: Who's Really Who
American National Biography Societies published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned, by John A. Garraty, by Mark C. Carnes
December 2, 1999: American Sermons (letter)
November 18, 1999: Just Say No
A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government by Garry Wills
September 23, 1999: Persuading the Persuaded
American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr. edited by Michael Warner
June 10, 1999: Plantation Blues
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by John Hope Franklin, by Loren Schweninger
Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries by Orlando Patterson
March 4, 1999: Mr. W. on Show
The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic October 6, 1998-June 6, 1999; and the Morgan Library, New York, September 16, 1999-January 2, 2000 an exhibition at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California,
The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic by John Rhodehamel, foreword by Gordon S. Wood
December 3, 1998: The Big American Crime
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry by Philip D. Morgan
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation a book and audiotape set, translated by Ira Berlin, by Marc Favreau, by Steven F. Miller
Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery produced by WGBH
Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery by Charles Johnson, by Patricia Smith. the WGBH Research Team
October 8, 1998: The Reluctant Republicans
The Brave Bostonians: Hutchinson, Quincy, Franklin, and the Coming of the American Revolution by Philip McFarland
March 5, 1998: The Governor in Drag?
The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America by Patricia U. Bonomi
June 12, 1997: America's First Great Man
The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649 edited by Richard S. Dunn, edited by James Savage, edited by Laetitia Yeandle
The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649 Abridged Edition edited by Richard S. Dunn, edited by Laetitia Yeandle
January 9, 1997: Bewitched
The Crucible film by Nicholas Hytner, screenplay by Arthur Miller
The Crucible Screenplay by Arthur Miller
October 31, 1996: Subject Women
First Generations: Women in Colonial America by Carol Berkin
Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society by Mary Beth Norton
Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 by Cornelia Hughes Dayton
March 21, 1996: Don't Tread On Us
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution by Theodore Draper
February 29, 1996: The Genuine Article
Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington by Richard Brookhiser
The Invention of George Washington by Paul K. Longmore
Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment by Garry Wills
George Washington: The Making of an American Symbol by Barry Schwartz
March 2, 1995: The Fixers
The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776–1826 edited by James Morton Smith
October 6, 1994: Pioneers of Paranoia
Peter Porcupine in America: Pamphlets on Republicanism and Revolution by William Cobbett
The Key of Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning, 'A Laborer,' 1747-1814 Wilentz. edited by Michael Merrill, edited by Sean Wilentz
June 23, 1994: Hostages to Fortune
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Demos
Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer
December 2, 1993: Power to the People?
The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification edited by Bernard Bailyn
August 13, 1992: Convicting Witches (letter)
June 25, 1992: The Second American Revolution
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
May 28, 1992: Beat the Devil
The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England by Richard Godbeer
April 23, 1992: The Fiction of 'The People'
We the People: Vol. I, Foundations by Bruce Ackerman
January 31, 1991: Secrets of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin's Science by Bernard Cohen
Le Sceptre et la foudre: Franklin à Paris, 1776–1785 by Claude-Anne Lopez
Mon Cher Papa: Franklin and the Ladies of Paris by Claude-Anne Lopez
Becoming Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and the Life by Ormond Seavey
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volumes 1–14 edited by Leonard W. Labaree
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volumes 15–26 edited by William B. Wilcox
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 27 edited by Claude A. Lopez
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 28 edited by Barbara B. Oberg
Benjamin Franklin: His Life As He Wrote It edited by Esmond Wright
Writings by Benjamin Franklin, edited by J.A. Leo Lemay
February 1, 1990: Mothers of Us All
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer
April 13, 1989: The Pleasures of Paine
Thomas Paine by A.J. Ayer
June 16, 1988: Negrophobia
The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia by Mechal Sobel
Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720–1840 by Gary B. Nash
Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia: 1860–1900 by Roger Lane
January 17, 1985: Our Town
A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, 1650–1750 by Darrett B., by Anita H. Rutman
A Place in Time: Explicatus by Darrett B., by Anita H. Rutman
May 31, 1984: Heaven Can't Wait
The Puritan Conversion Narrative: The Beginnings of American Expression by Patricia Caldwell
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
January 20, 1983: The Fall of the Gentry
The Transformation of Virginia: 1740-1790 by Rhys Isaac
November 4, 1982: Witch Hunting
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England by John Putnam Demos
April 16, 1981: The Oedipal Revolution
American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution by Peter Shaw
December 4, 1980: America's Garrison Government
The Governors-General: The English Army and the Definition of the Empire, 1569-1681 by Stephen Saunders Webb
July 19, 1979: The Chosen People
Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 by Richard Beale Davis
The American Jeremiad by Sacvan Bercovitch
March 22, 1979: The Witch Trials (letter)
January 25, 1979: The Puritan You Love to Hate
Cotton Mather: The Young Life of the Lord's Remembrancer, 1663-1703 by David Levin
August 17, 1978: The Heart of Jefferson
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills
May 4, 1978: The Outsider
The Young Hamilton: A Biography by James Thomas Flexner
March 9, 1978: The Great Political Fiction
Commons Debates 1628 Volume I: Introduction and Reference Materials Volume II: March 17-April 19, 1628 Volume III: April 21-May 27, 1628 edited by Robert C. Johnson, edited by Mary Frear Keeler, edited by Maija Jansson Cole, edited by William B. Bidwell
Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789 Volume I: August 1774-August 1775 Volume II: August-December 1775 edited by Paul H. Smith
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Volume I: Constitutional Documents and Records, 1776-1787 Volume II: Ratification of the Constitution by States, Pennsylvania edited by Merrill Jensen
The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790, Volume I edited by Merrill Jensen, edited by Robert A. Becker
February 23, 1978: Three Temperaments
The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America by Philip Greven
August 5, 1976: The American Revolution: Who Were 'The People'?
America Confronts a Revolutionary World, 1776-1976 by William Appleman Williams
The American Revolution Within America by Merrill Jensen
The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism edited by Alfred F. Young
Artisans for Independence: Philadelphia Mechanics and the American Revolution by Charles S. Olton
Tom Paine and Revolutionary America by Eric Foner
The Minutemen and Their World by Robert A. Gross
July 15, 1976: The American Revolution: Was There "A People"?
A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution by Page Smith
1776, Year of Illusions by Thomas Fleming
Empire or Independence, 1770-1776: A British-American Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution by Ian R. Christie, by Benjamin W. Labaree
A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence by John Shy
In the Common Cause: American Response to the Coercive Acts of 1774 by David Ammerman
The Politics of Command in the American Revolution by Jonathan G. Rossie
Party Politics in the Continental Congress by H. James Henderson
The Spirit of '76: The Growth of American Patriotism Before Independence by Carl Bridenbaugh
A Cultural History of the American Revolution by Kenneth Silverman
American Art 1750-1800: Towards Independence Yale University Art Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, by Charles F. Montgomery, by Patricia E. Kane general editors
The Enlightenment in America by Henry May
March 21, 1974: A Loyal Un-American
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn
May 9, 1968: A Restless Lot
Vexed and Troubled Englishmen 1590-1642 by Carl Bridenbaugh
Books by Edmund S. Morgan
Benjamin Franklin (2002)
Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988)
Roger Williams: The Church and the State (1988)
Saints & Revolutionaries: Essays on Early American History (1984)
The Genius of George Washington (1980)
The Puritan Family: Religion & Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England (1980)
The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 (1977)
The Challenge of the American Revolution (1976)
The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson (1976)
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975)
Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea (1965)
The Stamp Act Crisis; Prologue to Revolution (1963)
The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795 (1962)
The Puritan Dilemma; The Story of John Winthrop (1958)
Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century (1952)