Edmund Morgan

Edmund Sears Morgan (born January 17, 1916, in Minneapolis, Minnesota), an eminent authority on early American history, is Emeritus Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986. Morgan's interest in history grew while he attended Belmont Hill School outside of Boston, and while he was an undergraduate at Harvard. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization there in 1942, studying under Perry Miller. He began his teaching career at the University of Chicago (1945–46) and then at Brown (1946–55) before becoming a professor at Yale, where he directed many PhD dissertations in colonial history. He has written many books covering a range of topics in the history of the colonial and...