Edmund Sears Morgan (January 17, 1916 in
Minneapolis, Minnesota - July 8, 2013 in
New Haven, Connecticut) was an American
historian, an eminent authority on early
American history. He was Emeritus Professor of History at
Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986. He specialized in
American colonial history, with some attention to English history. Thomas S. Kidd says he was noted for his incisive writing style, "simply one of the best academic prose stylists America has ever produced." He covered many topics, including
Puritanism, political ideas, the American Revolution, slavery,
historiography, family life, and numerous notables such as Benjamin Franklin.