Edmund S. Morgan

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Edmund Sears Morgan (born January 17, 1916 in Minneapolis , Minnesota , † July 8, 2013 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American historian .

education

Edmund S. Morgan studied at Harvard University , where he received his Ph.D. received. He spent one year of his studies at the University of London . In 1945 he became a lecturer at the University of Chicago before becoming a professor at Brown University a year later . In 1955 he followed the call to Yale University , where he became a Sterling Professor in 1965 and taught until 1986.

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His books deal primarily with American independence and its prehistory. Birth of the Republic (1956) and The Puritan Dilemma (1958) are considered canonical. American Slavery, American Freedom (1975), and Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988) were also highlighted. He has also written biographies on Ezra Stiles , Roger Williams and Benjamin Franklin .

A well-known thesis of Morgan concerns slavery. Morgan argued in 1975 that slavery established in Virginia from 1650 significantly reduced class-specific clashes within the white majority. “ Racism made it possible for white Virginians to develop a devotion to the equality that English republicans had declared to be the soul of liberty. "( Edmund Morgan , German:" Racism allowed the white Virginians to develop a pursuit of equality, which the English Republicans dedicated to freedom ")

Honors

Morgan is widely recognized as one of the most respected historians of puritanism and colonial history in the United States. He has received numerous honorary doctorates and awards for his services, including the Bancroft Prize (1989), the US President's National Humanities Medal (2000) and the Pulitzer Prize (2006). In 1966 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society and in 1966 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1978 he has been a corresponding member of the British Academy .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (1953)
  • The birth of the Republic (1956)
  • The puritan dilemma: The story of John Winthrop (1958)
  • American Slavery, American Freedom (1975)
  • Inventing the People: Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edmund Morgan: American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia . 1975, p. 386
  2. ^ Member History: Edmund S. Morgan. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 8, 2019 .
  3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Edmund S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morgan, Edmund; Morgan, Edmund Sears
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2013
Place of death New Haven (Connecticut)