work as an American historian that spans the last half century." In 2008 the American Academy of Arts and Letters honored him with a gold medal for lifetime achievement. Books The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in 17th-Century New England (1944) read online Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century (1952) The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (1953), with Helen M. Morgan The Birth of the Republic, 1763–89 (1956; 4th ed. 2012) read online The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (1958) read online The American Revolution: A Review of Changing Interpretations (1958) The Mirror of the Indian (1958) Editor, Prologue to the Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764–1766 (1959) The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727–1795 (1962) read online The National Experience: A History of the United States (1963) coauthor of textbook; several editions Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea (1963) Editor, The Founding of Massachusetts: Historians and the Sources (1964) The American Revolution: Two Centuries of Interpretation (1965) Puritan Political Ideas, 1558–1794 (1965) read online The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth, 1653–1657: The Conscience of a Puritan (1965) The Puritan Family ([1944] 1966) Roger Williams: The Church and the State (1967) read online So What About History? (1969) American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975) The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson (1976, reprint with new foreword, 2004) The Genius of George Washington (1980) Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988) Benjamin Franklin (Yale University Press, 2002) read online The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America (2004), selected review essays from New York Review of Books read online American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America (2009), biographical essays read online Selected articles Notes Further reading Carp, Benjamin L. "Edmund S. Morgan and the Urgency of Good Leadership." Reviews in American History 44.1 (2016): 1-18. Liddle, William D. "Edmund S. Morgan (1916– )" in Clyde N. Wilson, ed., Twentieth-Century American Historians (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. XVII) (Detroit, 1983), pp 285–95. Middlekauff, Robert. “In Memoriam: Edmund S. Morgan 1916-2013.” New England Quarterly 96#4 (2013), pp. 685–687. online. Murrin, John M. "Edmund S. Morgan," in Robert Allen Rutland, ed. Clio's Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945–2000 U of Missouri Press. (2000) pp 126–137 Washington Post obituary Boston