Edmund Morgan (historian)
| Edmund Sears Morgan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 17, 1916 Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Died | July 8, 2013 (aged 97) New Haven, Connecticut |
| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Institutions | University of Chicago, Brown University, Yale University |
| Alma mater | Harvard College |
| Doctoral advisor | Perry Miller |
| Doctoral students | David S. Lovejoy, Joseph Ellis |
Edmund Sears Morgan (January 17, 1916 – July 8, 2013) was an American historian, an eminent authority on early American history. He was Emeritus Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986. 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." He covered many topics, including Puritanism, political ideas, the American Revolution, slavery, historiography, family life, and numerous notables such as Benjamin Franklin.
Morgan was born in Minnesota, the second child of Edmund Morris Morgan and Elsie Smith Morgan. His mother was from a Yankee family that practiced Christian Science, though she distanced herself from the faith. His father, descended from Welsh coal miners, taught law at the University of Minnesota. In 1925 the family moved from Washington, D.C. to Arlington, Massachusetts to allow the father to take a position as professor at Harvard Law School.
Morgan attended Belmont Hill School near home. He then enrolled in Harvard University, intending to study English history and literature, but after taking a course in American literature with F. O. Matthiessen he switched to the new major of American civilization (history and literature), with Perry Miller as his tutor, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1937. Then, at the urging of the jurist Felix Frankfurter (a family friend), Morgan attended lectures at the London School of Economics.
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