Edmund Morgan

Quotes

• “Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to...”
• “When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he w...”
• “In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsin...”
• “The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its jo...”
• “The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly a...”
• “The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created t...”
• “Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declarati...”