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Prof. Edmund S. Morgan
Edmund Sears Morgan (January 17, 1916 - July 8, 2013) was an American historian and eminent authority on early American history. He was Emeritus Professor of History at Yale University, where he ta...view moreEdmund Sears Morgan (January 17, 1916 - July 8, 2013) was an American historian and eminent authority on early American history. He was Emeritus Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986, specializing in American colonial history, with some attention to English history. His topics included Puritanism, political ideas, the American Revolution, slavery, historiography, family life, and numerous notables such as Benjamin Franklin.
Born in Minnesota, his family moved from Washington, D.C. to Arlington, Massachusetts in 1925, where his father became a professor at Harvard Law School.
Morgan attended Harvard University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in American civilization (history and literature) in 1937 and his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization in 1942.
During WWII he trained as a machinist at the MIT Radiation Laboratory and then taught history at Brown University from 1946-1955 before becoming a professor at Yale University, where he directed some 60 PhD dissertations in colonial history before retiring in 1986.
He earned numerous awards, including the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa’s William Clyde DeVane Medal for outstanding teaching and scholarship in 1971, the Douglass Adair Memorial Award for scholarship in early American history in 1972, and the Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Historical Association in 1986.
He also won numerous fellowships and garnered a number of honorary degrees and named lectureships. He became a Sterling Professor (one of Yale’s highest distinctions) in 1965. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal by U.S. President Bill Clinton in 2000. He won a Pulitzer Prize “for a creative and deeply influential body of work as an American historian that spans the last half century” in 2006.
He was honoured with a gold medal for lifetime achievement by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008.view less
Books by Prof. Edmund S. Morgan
Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings