Edmund S. Morgan

Edmund Sears Morgan (né le 17 janvier 1916 à Minneapolis (Minnesota)), est un historien américain, spécialiste de l'histoire coloniale des États-Unis et professeur émérite de l'université Yale de 1955 à 1986. Son ouvrage Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988) remporta le Prix Bancroft de l'université Columbia. Il écrivit les biographies d'Ezra Stiles, Roger Williams et Benjamin Franklin.

Œuvres

• Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century (1952)
• The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (1953), avec Helen M. Morgan
• The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 (1956)
• The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (1958)
• The American Revolution: A Review of Changing Interpretations (1958)
• The Mirror of the Indian (1958)
• Editor, Prologue to the Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766 (1959)
• The National Experience: A History of the United States (1963) coauteur
• Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea (1963)
• Editor, The Founding of Massachusetts: Historians and the Sources (1964)
• The American Revolution: Two Centuries of Interpretation (1965)
• Puritan Political Ideas, 1558-1794 (1965)
• The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth, 1653-1657: The Conscience of a Puritan (1965)
• The Puritan Family (1966)
• Roger Williams: The Church and the State (1967)
• So What about History? (1969)
• American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975)
• The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson (1976)
• The Genius of George Washington (1980)
• The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795 (1984)
• Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988)
• Benjamin Franklin (2002)
• The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America (2004), recueil d'articles