Author: Edmund S. Morgan

In this book Edmund S. Morgan pushes past the image to find the man. He argues that Washington's genius lay in his understanding of both military a...

The Revolution is fertile ground for the historian's craft, as these essays attest. Edmund S. Morgan discovers in American protests against British...

Now available again, this important biography of the early New England intellectual leader was greeted as a ""landmark in the history of the Americ...

This comprehensive documentary source book on the Stamp Act provides a case-study approach to American colonial history and serves as a problems so...

From the best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin comes this remarkable work that will help redefine our notion of American heroism. Americans have...

A New York Times Book Review Best Book Since 2000   A New York Times Bestseller, a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a Washingt...

This book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the Americ...

In this life of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale University from 1778 to 1795, the noted historian Edmund S. Morgan portrays a man who reflects the t...

A classic of its kind, Edmund S. Morgan's Roger Williams skillfully depicts the intellectual life of the man who, after his expulsion in 1635 from ...

In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. George Washington led the Americans in battle agai...

"This book amounts to an intellectual autobiography....These pieces are thus a statement of what I have thought about early Americans during nearly...