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The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (Library of American Biography)
Edmund S. Morgan
Longman, 2006
An excellent review of Puritanism in Massachusetts and England
While this book is an excellent biography of John Winthrop, Massachusetts' first Governor, it is also an excellent review of the various types of Puritanism and the issues faced by Winthrop and others in their American experiment to found and develop a colony based on ...
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Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea
Edmund S. Morgan
Cornell University Press, 1965
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The Puritan Family: Religion & Domestic Relations in 17th Century New England
Edmund S. Morgan
Harper Perennial, 1942
Excellent and balanced survey of a unique people
I wasn't sure whether this was going to be a positive or a negative survey of Puritan life and times when I started reading it. Most people don't have very many nice things to say about them- usually comments about black clothing and the Salem witch trials. But the ...
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American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
Edmund S. Morgan
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995
Brilliant
This is an excellent, in depth survey of Virginia?s colonial experience, with an emphasis on how the seemingly contradictory institutions of slavery and equalitarian republicanism developed simultaneously. Indeed, Morgan argues that Virginians? definition of freedom, ...
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American Slavery, American Freedom
Edmund S. Morgan
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
Excellent
This very well written and researched book is an effort to answer a single interesting question; why were so many of the great Founders slaveholding Virginians? To address this apparent paradox, Morgan investigates the history of colonial Virginia from its founding to ...
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Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America
Edmund S. Morgan
W. W. Norton & Company, 1989
A Great Book to Understand our Forefathers
I'm barely a quarter of the way through the book. It's very dense in that there is so much to read and ponder within its covers. But what I have read shows that he has done his homework, and is presenting the material in a way that makes me feel like I was part of the ...
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Benjamin Franklin (Yale Nota Bene)
Edmund S. Morgan
Yale University Press, 2003
Benjamin Franklin, Diplomat
"Benjamin Franklin" by Edmund S. Morgan is a spell binding study of Franklin's career in the diplomatic service. There are sections about his youth, scientific experiments, his flirtations with women, service in the Constitutional Convention, as well as other staples ...
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The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution
Edmund S. Morgan
The University of North Carolina Press, 1995
Informative, but Patriotic Bias
This work is worth the read simply because of the stature of the author. It remains the most comprehensive treatment of the Stamp Act crisis. Morgan's writing is, as always, highly readable. This interpretation disputes the Progressive interpretation that the ...
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The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America
Edmund S. Morgan
W. W. Norton & Company, 2005
A Welcome Compendium from Edmund S. Morgan
Ordinarily, books that are collections of articles that appeared elsewhere often do not live up to their promise. Have no fear--that most certainly is not the case here. This is so for several reasons. The first is that Morgan is Morgan--probably the dean of ...
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The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 (The Chicago History of American Civilization)
Edmund S. Morgan
University Of Chicago Press, 1993
Concise Query into Ideology
One would think that justice cannot be done to the topic of ideology during the American Revolution in such a short book, but Edmund S. Morgan does the job quite well. In each chapter, you have an introduction to the various basic issues that confronted Americans ...
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The Stamp Act Crisis, Prologue to Revolution
Edmund S. Morgan, Helen M. Morgan
Collier Books, 1965
"A brilliant study in research, in organization, in thought and in writing." - Saturday Review. How taxation set the stage for revolution. 384 pages including index.
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Roger Williams: The Church and the State
Edmund S. Morgan
W. W. Norton, 1997
The story of a very important man
Williams is shown as uncompromising in the pursuit of the correct way to live. Even when it was unpopular (even dangerous) Willams said what he felt was the truth -- and lived up to his own standards. He is too often overlooked and too important not to teach our ...
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American Aurora : A Democratic-Republican Returns : The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the ...
Richard N. Rosenfeld
St. Martin's Griffin, 1998
An eye-opening political thriller...
Can historical source material make for an exciting and engaging read? This book answers that question in the extreme affirmative. It contains documents mainly from the 18th century, but it reads like a political thriller. It also provides valuable peeks into the ...
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The National Experience: A History of the United States
John M. Blum, William S. McFeely, ...
Wadsworth Publishing, 1993
AP US History
I'm a sophmore in high school and I'm taking the Advanced Placement US History course. The book provides so much insight into the past; politially and socially, and gives first hand accounts and documents of the time periods. It is also a very helpful textbook when ...
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Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century (Williamsburg in America Series;)
Edmund S. Morgan
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1952
great introduction to colonial life
This brief overview of colonial life in Virginia is both entertaining and instructional. Professor Morgan draws on numerous diary entries, letters and newspaper accounts to illustrate life in Virginia. Although most of the text is in regard to families living on ...
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