Quotes by : Edmund Morgan

When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after....

Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has....

The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,'....

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands....

In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence....

Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said....

The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress....