Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book is The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America. (June 2011)
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The American Who Spied for the British
June 23, 2011
Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy
by Thomas J. Schaeper
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How Black & White America Took Shape
April 8, 2010
The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations
by Ira Berlin
The History of White People
by Nell Irvin Painter
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Jefferson’s Concubine
October 9, 2008
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
by Annette Gordon-Reed
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Jefferson & Betrayal
June 26, 2008
Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and a Tragic Betrayal of Freedom in the New Nation
by Gary B. Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers
by Richard S. Newman
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A Very Satisfied Survivor
September 27, 2007
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
by Linda Colley
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Our Shaky Beginnings
April 26, 2007
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
Jamestown: The Buried Truth
by William M. Kelso
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
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
by Helen C. Rountree
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Inventing the ‘Liberal Republican’ Mind
November 16, 2006
Dangerous Nation
by Robert Kagan
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Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
August 10, 2006
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Henry Adams’s Theme
December 15, 2005
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History from Below
December 1, 2005
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The Unread Masterpiece
November 17, 2005
Henry Adams and the Making of America
by Garry Wills
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The Other Founders
September 22, 2005
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
by Gary B. Nash
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Bill of Wrongs
March 10, 2005
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
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The Election and America’s Future
November 4, 2004
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The Whirlwind
September 23, 2004
Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
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A New Kind of War
May 27, 2004
Washington’s Crossing
by David Hackett Fischer
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‘Inventing a Nation’
March 11, 2004
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A Tract for the Times
December 18, 2003
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
by Gore Vidal
Washington, D.C.
by Gore Vidal
Burr
by Gore Vidal
Lincoln
by Gore Vidal
Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952–1972
by Gore Vidal
The Last Empire: Essays, 1992–2000
by Gore Vidal
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
by Gore Vidal
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
by Gore Vidal
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A Very Popular Penalty
April 10, 2003
The Death Penalty: An American History
by Stuart Banner
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Those Sexy Puritans
June 27, 2002
Sexual Revolution in Early America
by Richard Godbeer
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The Fastest Killer
February 14, 2002
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
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The Price of Honor
May 31, 2001
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
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In Love with Guns
October 19, 2000
Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
by Michael A. Bellesiles
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Back to Basics
July 20, 2000
Serving the Word: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bench
by Vincent Crapanzano
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Who’s Really Who
March 9, 2000
American National Biography Societies
published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned, by John A. Garraty, by Mark C. Carnes
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American Sermons
December 2, 1999
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Just Say No
November 18, 1999
A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government
by Garry Wills
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Persuading the Persuaded
September 23, 1999
American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr.
edited by Michael Warner
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Plantation Blues
June 10, 1999
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
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Mr. W. on Show
March 4, 1999
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
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The Big American Crime
December 3, 1998
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
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The Reluctant Republicans
October 8, 1998
The Brave Bostonians: Hutchinson, Quincy, Franklin, and the Coming of the American Revolution
by Philip McFarland
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The Governor in Drag?
March 5, 1998
The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America by Patricia U. Bonomi
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America’s First Great Man
June 12, 1997
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
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Bewitched
January 9, 1997
The Crucible film by Nicholas Hytner, screenplay by Arthur Miller
The Crucible Screenplay by Arthur Miller
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Subject Women
October 31, 1996
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
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Don’t Tread On Us
March 21, 1996
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution by Theodore Draper
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The Genuine Article
February 29, 1996
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
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The Fixers
March 2, 1995
The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 17761826 edited by James Morton Smith
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Pioneers of Paranoia
October 6, 1994
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
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Hostages to Fortune
June 23, 1994
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Demos
Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fischer
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Power to the People?
December 2, 1993
The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification edited by Bernard Bailyn
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Convicting Witches
August 13, 1992
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The Second American Revolution
June 25, 1992
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
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Beat the Devil
May 28, 1992
The Devil’s Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England
by Richard Godbeer
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The Fiction of ‘The People’
April 23, 1992
We the People: Vol. I, Foundations by Bruce Ackerman
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Secrets of Benjamin Franklin
January 31, 1991
Benjamin Franklin’s Science by Bernard Cohen
Le Sceptre et la foudre: Franklin à Paris, 17761785 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 114 edited by Leonard W. Labaree
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volumes 1526 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
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Mothers of Us All
February 1, 1990
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer
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The Pleasures of Paine
April 13, 1989
Thomas Paine by A.J. Ayer
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Negrophobia
June 16, 1988
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, 17201840 by Gary B. Nash
Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia: 18601900 by Roger Lane
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Our Town
January 17, 1985
A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, 16501750 by Darrett B., by Anita H. Rutman
A Place in Time: Explicatus by Darrett B., by Anita H. Rutman
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Heaven Can’t Wait
May 31, 1984
The Puritan Conversion Narrative: The Beginnings of American Expression by Patricia Caldwell
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
by Kenneth Silverman
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The Fall of the Gentry
January 20, 1983
The Transformation of Virginia: 1740-1790 by Rhys Isaac
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Witch Hunting
November 4, 1982
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England by John Putnam Demos
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The Oedipal Revolution
April 16, 1981
American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution by Peter Shaw
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America’s Garrison Government
December 4, 1980
The Governors-General: The English Army and the Definition of the Empire, 1569-1681 by Stephen Saunders Webb
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The Chosen People
July 19, 1979
Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 by Richard Beale Davis
The American Jeremiad
by Sacvan Bercovitch
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The Witch Trials
March 22, 1979
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The Puritan You Love to Hate
January 25, 1979
Cotton Mather: The Young Life of the Lord’s Remembrancer, 1663-1703 by David Levin
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The Heart of Jefferson
August 17, 1978
Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills
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The Outsider
May 4, 1978
The Young Hamilton: A Biography
by James Thomas Flexner
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The Great Political Fiction
March 9, 1978
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
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Three Temperaments
February 23, 1978
The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America
by Philip Greven
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The American Revolution: Who Were ‘The People’?
August 5, 1976
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
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The American Revolution: Was There “A People”?
July 15, 1976
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
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A Loyal Un-American
March 21, 1974
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn
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A Restless Lot
May 9, 1968
Vexed and Troubled Englishmen 1590-1642 by Carl Bridenbaugh