Edmund Sears Morgan | |
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| Born | January 17, 1916 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | July 8, 2013 (aged 97) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA, PhD) London School of Economics |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Chicago Brown University Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | Perry Miller |
| Doctoral students | |
Edmund Sears Morgan (January 17, 1916 – July 8, 2013) was an American historian and an authority on early American history. He was the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986.[1] He specialized in American colonial history, with some attention to English history. Thomas S. Kidd says he was noted for his incisive writing style, "simply one of the best academic prose stylists America has ever produced."[2] He covered many topics, including Puritanism, political ideas, the American Revolution, slavery, historiography, family life, and numerous notables such as Benjamin Franklin.