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	Edmund Morgan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edmund S. Morgan, an eminent authority on early American history, was a professor of history emeritus at Yale University (1955-1986.) He has written many books on Puritan and colonial history, many of which have appealed to a mass audience.
		Morgan was awarded the 2000 National Humanities Medal by the US President Bill Clinton at a ceremony for "extraordinary contributions to American cultural life and thought."
		Morgan's own interest in history grew while he was an undergraduate at Harvard, where he went on to earn his Ph.D in 1942.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmund_Morgan (497 words)

	NYRB Morgan
		Morgan revealed a world in early Virginia that we scarcely knew existed—a world in which life was nasty, brutish, and short, where money was quickly made and lost, diseases ran rampant, Indian conflict was constant, and parentless children and multiple marriages were the norm.
		Morgan does not consider the question of Franklin's ambitions in the early 1760s; but if Franklin were to become "the architect" of the British Empire, he would likely have needed to have an important royal office, since the Empire was the king's Empire.
		Morgan stresses that public outcries in Pennsylvania against the prospect of becoming a royal colony and Franklin's defeat at the polls in an election to the Assembly "should have given him pause" and "prompted second thoughts" in his mind.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /Engl440/NYRB/NRYB_Edmund_Morgan.htm (3915 words)

	Morgan
		Morgan argued that the central paradox of American history was that the colonists who began and won the American Revolution in the eighteenth century obtained both their ideas of freedom and their slaves from the generations that settled Virginia from 1600 to 1660.
		Morgan began by arguing that Virginia was the key to the issues because it was the largest and most important colony, owning more than 40 percent of all slaves during the period surveyed.
		Morgan also argued that the emphasis on tobacco was deleterious to the colony because it stunted the growth of cities and hindered the development of other industries.
	personal.tcu.edu /~SWOODWORTH/Morgan.htm (2295 words)

	Rambles: Edmund S. Morgan, The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Edmund Morgan builds his work around the premise that the Founding Fathers did indeed operate on principle in building a new nation and that the struggle eventually framed itself as a pursuit of equality among all men.
		He admits that many of the decisions made by the leaders of the Revolution did equate to economic or property gains for themselves, but he argues that this is not contradictory at all with a commitment to liberty because liberty in the 18th century essentially hinged on land ownership.
		Morgan does an excellent job explaining why the Articles of Confederation failed and how the problems of that system were widely recognized, frankly debated and resolved in the creation of a new national government established upon the bedrock of a new federal Constitution.
	www.rambles.net /morgan_birthrep56.html (344 words)

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		An Analysis of Edmund Morgan’s American Slavery, American Freedom That the institution of fl slavery and a strong love of liberty had both developed in Virginia by the time of the Revolution is hard to dispute.
		Morgan also demonstrates that, at this same time, a tobacco boom was taking place in the colony, one that established constant and required hard labor as the norm for the unfree (white servants at this point).
		Morgan argues that the conversion to slaves was not deliberate, but simply resulted from individual planters making the decision to purchase slaves (which had increased in availability and become better values as mortality rates fell) instead of servants (which were likely decreasing in availability during this time).
	xroads.virginia.edu /~UG02/fox/work/americanslave.doc (1673 words)

	Yale History Faculty : Edmund S. Morgan
		Edmund Morgan has authored dozens of books on Puritan and early colonial history, which are acclaimed for both their scholarly focus and their appeal to a general audience.
		Morgan's own interest in history grew while he was an undergraduate at Harvard, where he went on to earn his doctorate.
		Morgan can take credit, however, for being a pioneer in social history long before it became the fashion by writing a book describing the family life of Puritans.
	www.yale.edu /history/faculty/morgan.html (680 words)

	UCD US History Graduate Readings: Edmund S. Morgan, "Visible Saints" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Morgan revises the standard historical view in the second and third chapters on requirements for church membership.
		Thus, Morgan reverses the thesis that Plymouth influenced Massachusetts Bay in the establishment of functional congregational churches.
		Morgan posits and develops a revisionary thesis: the practice of basing membership upon a declaration of experiencing saving grace, or 'conversion,' was first put into effect not in England, Holland, or Plymouth, as is commonly related, but in Massachusetts Bay Colony by nonseparating Puritans.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~rpekarek/gmorganv.html (3830 words)

	The Morgans
		This was, of course, a ruse; Morgan used his superlative skills at disguise to keep the criminals ignorant of his true identity and to allow him to travel among the public and criminal classes in various guises, gathering information.
		Like his mentor, Edmund used his skills at disguise (learned, we might assume, from “Old Sleuth” himself) to portray himself as an old man; the public view was that “Old Cap” was a man in his sixties.
		Edmund was active as a detective through 1899, but disappeared late in the year, and it has never been known what happened to him after his disappearance.
	ratmmjess.tripod.com /wold3b.html (6853 words)

	The Meaning of Independence
		To answer these questions, Edmund S. Morgan looks at three men who may fairly be called the "architects of independence," the first presidents of the United States.
		Through this perspective, Morgan examines the growth of independence from its initial declaration and discovers something of its meaning, for three men who responded to its challenge and for the nation that they helped create.
		Edmund S. Morgan is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, a recipient of the 2000 National Humanities Medal, and past president of the Organization of American Historians.
	www.upress.virginia.edu /books/morgan.html (367 words)

	James J. Marchioro: Review of American Slavery, American Freedom - Gaines Junction
		As Morgan points out, the availability of land needed to cultivate tobacco was not an issue, the only obstacle to securing the fortune they had come to Virginia for was to be found in the lack of labor.
		Morgan asserts that it was the rise in life expectancy that was a significant factor in pushing the conversion from the servitude of Englishmen to the slavery of Africans.
		Morgan is apt to point out the limitations of his sources and takes the time to substantiate his assertions when no documentation is available.
	gainesjunction.tamu.edu /issues/vol3num1/jmarchioro (1235 words)

	YAM November 2002 - Finding Franklin
		As depicted in a new biography by Edmund Morgan, the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Franklin never rested in his pursuit of the beautiful, the interesting, and the good.
		Morgan's interest in Franklin grew out of his long association with the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, a large collection of documents that since 1954 has been compiled and annotated at Yale in a suite of offices on the second floor of the Sterling Memorial Library.
		Although Morgan does not recommend his book to anyone who wishes merely to learn how better to apply our American past to our American present and future, he does acknowledge that much of Franklin's thoughts and actions certainly are relevant to issues specific to our time and place.
	www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/02_11/franklin.html (906 words)

	Benjamin Frankliln by Edmund Morgan - HistoryWiz Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Morgan instead takes us more into Franklin's thinking and activities as diplomat and politician and into the way his winning personality served his country so well at the moment it needed him.
		Morgan adopts a chronological approach from which he often departs for expansive discussions of Franklin's occupational arenas--printing, morals, science, politics, and diplomacy--through which Franklin expressed his attitude toward life.
		A youthful flirtation with a philosophy of amoralism, Morgan relates, matured to Franklin's fundamental precept that one's life must be useful and that one should not give in to passions that would impede one's value to friends, to knowledge, and to country.
	books.historywiz.org /moreinfo/franklin-morgan.htm (1390 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Edmund Morgan's Benjamin Franklin
		Morgan offers this delightful biographical essay, inspired by and largely derived from the work he's overseeing as chairman of the Administrative Board of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, a project centered at Yale University, where he is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus.
		Morgan briefly sketches out Franklin's early life, his work as a printer and publisher, his involvement in an incredible array of civic improvements in Philadelphia, and the experiments with electricity that won him his world-wide fame.
		Morgan would (unnecessarily) have us believe, he seems to have lived an otherwise upright life and to have never lost sight of the need for society to be structured around such religious morality.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/1183 (2925 words)

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		Unknown to Morgan, Merlin is observing all of this from his workshop and is speedily using his sorcery to save the few remaining inhabitants of that fictional videotape world by sending them into a new home: a fictional DVD world where they can begin their new life.
		When little Rowena makes her wish to send Morgan le Fay out of her parents’ home, the combination of her Wishling and demon powers inadvertently sends Morgan along the same path as the inhabitants who are being sent into the fictional DVD world.
		Morgan uses her sorcery to summon Drekel who happens to be at that very moment shackled by demon-proof chains and held in a prison cell at Wishling Headquarters.
	www.angelfire.com /tv2/jeanster/pandaedmund.html (5317 words)

	Hoffman Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Morgan, Tech niques, supra note 5, at 417 (eight stan dards for rebuttal).] Numbers (1) through (3) are variant forms of the Thayer-Wigmore presumption.
		Thus, the court of appeals agreed with the district court that ownership—->agency was a presumption operating to shift the burden of persuasion to the defendant (that is, a Morgan presumption), but disagreed that the burden thus shifted was as heavy as the district court said.
		Because of the embarrassing conclusions that flow from supposing Morgan effect, one is tempted to go, as nearly as may be, with what the court did, rather than with what the court said.
	www.law.ua.edu /lawreview/hofffull.htm (16937 words)

	F&M \| Commencement 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Professor Morgan has written a pioneering history of the Puritan family, biographies of John Winthrop, Ezra Stiles, and Roger Williams, as well as studies of the Stamp Act crisis, the rise of popular sovereignty, and the meaning of American independence.
		Professor Morgan is the recipient of numerous awards, including the William Clyde DeVane Medal, presented by the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Yale for outstanding teaching and scholarship, the inaugural Douglas Adair Memorial Award for scholarship in early American history, the American Historical Society’s Distinguished Scholarship Award, and the Bruce Catton Award.
		Edmund S. Morgan is a distinguished historian, a legendary teacher to generations of Yale students, and an individual who exemplifies the ideals of the college Benjamin Franklin helped bring into existence.
	server1.fandm.edu /departments/communications/commencement/cit_morgan.html (497 words)

	When those Puritans weren't so very pure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Edmund S. Morgan -- Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University and the author of 15 previous books, among them the recent best-seller "Benjamin Franklin" -- is one of our pre-eminent authorities on the American Revolution and the early and late colonial periods.
		Morgan has fun as well discovering the fact that most Puritans believed in a woman's right to "that pang of pleasure" associated with intercourse.
		Shifting gears, in a section of the book on the South, Morgan harvests convincing evidence from John Hope Franklin's and Loren Schweninger's "Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation" that -- contrary to popular myth -- African men and women of the colonial period repeatedly sought to escape and otherwise disrupt the machinery of their servitude.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/06/27/RVGR97804G1.DTL (709 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Book Review - Benjamin Franklin - Edmund S. Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Morgan, one of the greatest living authorities on colonial America, has written a concise, excellent, and eminently readable biography.
		Morgan has written a book very much like its hero: so fluent, so engaging, and so self-effacing that one only gradually realizes its true breadth and scope.
		In conveying to modern readers the natural geniality of Franklin's character, Morgan succeeds also in casting new light on the social atmosphere and political ideas of the emerging American nation.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /20030101fabook10252/edmund-s-morgan/benjamin-franklin.html?mode=print (250 words)

	Alibris: Edmund Sears Morgan
		Edmund S. Morgan's classic account of the Revolutionary period shows how the challenge of British taxation started the Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom and eventually led to the Revolution.
		Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace...
		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 and political power.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Edmund_Sears_Morgan (399 words)

	The UNC Press, The Stamp Act Crisis by Edmund S. Morgan and Helen M. Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Stamp Act Crisis, originally published by UNC Press in 1953, identifies the issues that caused the confrontation and explores the ways in which the conflict was a prelude to the American Revolution.
		Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University.
		The late Helen M. Morgan was his wife and collaborator.
	uncpress.unc.edu /books/T-1252.html (241 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Benjamin Franklin - Edmund S. Morgan - Paperback
		Morgan's analysis, but as a biography, the book lacks too many details about Franklin's personal life to be very engaging.
		Morgan devotes most of the book to uncovering Franklin's central role in the long series of calculations and miscalculations that pushed thirteen loyal and tractable British colonies into revolution and forged them into the United States.
		In this, Morgan seems to be following Franklin's own lead; we learn that he viewed the scientific accomplishments that won him universal acclaim as less important than his far-sighted, patient, often personally painful political work.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=O9t1wsVnH9&isbn=0300101627&TXT=Y&itm=2 (2091 words)

	Amazon.com: Benjamin Franklin: Books: Edmund S. Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Morgan says that Franklin is hard to know, in part, because "it is so hard to distinguish his natural impulses from his principles." For a focus on his main endeavors, however, especially his political ones, this biography does very well.
		Morgan was awarded the National Humanities Medal and cited as "one of America's most distinguished historians." If Mr.
		Morgan has been fond of saying, "History can be boring." Consequently, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN not only educates, but I found it entertaining as well, a claim many biographies would loved to be tagged with.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300095325?v=glance (2401 words)

	Yale Bulletin and Calendar
		As pleased as Edmund S. Morgan was to receive the 2000 National Humanities Medal, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History says he is still somewhat dazzled by it.
		Morgan says he is still unsure how he was chosen for the national award, but admits that it was a thrill being selected for the honor.
		The "extraordinary contributions" that Morgan's National Medal for the Humanities recognizes include the dozen books he has authored on Puritan and early colonial history, which are acclaimed for both their scholarly focus and their appeal to a general audience.
	www.yale.edu /opa/v29.n15/story3.html (983 words)

	Blogcritics.org: A Love Letter to Benjamin Franklin
		Edmund Morgan is one of the great historians of the past century, and he is certainly one of my favorites.
		The answer is this: Morgan does not pretend to undertake a thorough examination of the life, times, and legacy of Benjamin Franklin (as if you could do that in 300 pages!), but rather only "say[s] enough about the man to show that he is worth the trouble.
		Morgan digs beneath Franklin's own words here, repeatedly wondering aloud if Franklin in these years understood what he was doing and who he was dealing with.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/11/06/142211.php (2184 words)

	Edmund S. Morgan - 2003 National Book Festival (Library of Congress)
		Due to unforseen circumstances, Edmund S. Morgan has been forced to cancel his much-anticipated trip to Washington, D.C. to take part in the 2003 National Book Festival.
		Professor Morgan regrets he is unable to take part in this wonderful and important event.
		Edmund S. Morgan, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and one of America's leading historians, has written more than a dozen books about early American history.
	www.loc.gov /bookfest/2003/morgan.html (134 words)

	Bookselling This Week: A Revolutionary American: Edmund S. Morgan on Benjamin Franklin
		Edmund S. Morgan, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, has written more than a dozen books, including Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America, a Bancroft Prize winner.
		Morgan's fascinating biography creates an extraordinary portrait of Franklin, unveiling the man beneath the legend.
		BTW: Franklin's accomplishments were astounding: He was a great statesman, he played a pivotal role in founding a country, he was a scientist, a bestselling author, a printer, a diplomat, a ladies' man, just to highlight some of the facets of the man. It's hard to find a modern-day comparison.
	news.bookweb.org /features/932.html (610 words)

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