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Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea

Edmund S Morgan

2013 Reprint of 1963 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. While Morgan’s literary portfolio shows remarkable diversity, it is studded with works on…

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Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766

Edmund S. Morgan

This comprehensive documentary source book on the Stamp Act provides a case-study approach to American colonial history and serves as a problems source book on the key event in Anglo-American…

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The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795

Edmund S. Morgan

Now available again, this important biography of the early New England intellectual leader was greeted as a landmark in the history of the American mind by Clifford K. Shipton when…

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The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson

Edmund S. Morgan

Americans did not at first cherish the idea of political severance from their mother country. What and who changed their minds? To answer this, this text looks at three men…

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The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson

Edmund S. Morgan

One of the standard short works on the first three presidents of the United States - George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. When the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association and…

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The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-century New England

Edmund S. Morgan

Covers Puritan tribalism, the family, servants and religion.

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Benjamin Franklin

Edmund S. Morgan

The greatest statesman of his age, Benjamin Franklin was also a pioneering scientist, a successful author, the first American postmaster general, a printer and a bon vivant. This biography offers…

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The Challenge of the American Revolution

Edmund S. Morgan

Essays written over the past thirty years assess the American Revolution’s abstract and specifically contemporary importance and study factors and events seen as contributing directly to American independence and a…

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Prologue to Revolution

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The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795

Edmund S. Morgan

In this life of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale University from 1778 to 1795, the noted historian Edmund S. Morgan portrays a man who reflects the thought and temper of…

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Roger Williams the Church and the State

Edmund S. Morgan

Depicts the intellectual life of the man who founded what would become Rhode Island. This book is intended for those interested in the Church, the State and the relationship between…

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American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America

Edmund S. Morgan

Re-examines the lives of those such as George Washington or Benjamin Franklin, re-evaluates the legacies of figures like Anne Hutchinson. The author plucks from obscurity Mary Easty and Giles Cory…

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Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

Edmund S. Morgan

The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naivete concerning the governmental process. -Michael Kamman, Washington Post

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American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia

Edmund S. Morgan

In this study of the tragic contradiction at the heart of America, Edward Morgan looks for answers to the people and politics of Virginia - a state that was both…

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The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America

Edmund S. Morgan

An analysis of American colonial history, told in twenty-four essays, is categorized under such sections as New Englanders, Southerners, and Revolutionaries and features detailed discussions on a wide range of…

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The Genius of George Washington

Edmund S. Morgan

More than any other single man, George Washington was responsible for bringing success to the American Revolution. But because of the heroic image in which we have cast him and…

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Visible Saints: History of a Puritan Idea

Edmund S. Morgan

A richly detailed reinterpretation of the genesis, flowering, and decline of the Puritan ideal of a church of the elect in England and America.

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The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Fourth Edition

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Part of the Chicago History of American Civilization series, which provides a nuanced and vibrant portrait of the United States from its inception through the twentieth century.

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Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin

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Reveals Benjamin Franklin’s human side, his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy and the people of the United States. Drawing on life-long research in the vast…

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The Colonial Scene, 1602-1800: A Catalogue of Books Exhibited at the John Carter Brown Library in the Spring of 1949

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The Colonial Scene, 1602-1800: A Catalogue of Books Exhibited at the John Carter Brown Library in the Spring of 1949

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Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century; 0

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