Overview :In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. George Washington led the Americans in batt... Read More
Overview :"The best short biography of Franklin ever written."--Gordon S. Wood Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American his... Read More
Overview :The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a "visible" kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct... Read More
Overview :Through a richly detailed account of the genesis, flowering, and decline of the Puritan ideal of a church of the elect in England and Americ... Read More
Overview :In The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for consti... Read More
Overview :In this book Edmund S. Morgan pushes past the image to find the man. He argues that Washington's genius lay in his understanding of both mil... Read More
Overview :The Revolution is fertile ground for the historian's craft, as these essays attest. Edmund S. Morgan discovers in American protests against ... Read More
Overview :Caught between the ideals of God's Law and the practical needs of the people, John Winthrop walked a line few could tread. In every aspec... Read More
Overview :"This book amounts to an intellectual autobiography....These pieces are thus a statement of what I have thought about early Americans during... Read More
Overview :2013 Reprint of 1963 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. While Morgan's liter... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This w... Read More
Overview :A classic of its kind, Edmund S. Morgan's Roger Williams skillfully depicts the intellectual life of the man who, after his expulsion in 163... Read More
Overview :'Impressive . . . The authors have given us a searching account of the crisis and provided some memorable portraits of officials in America... Read More