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1	Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan 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 aspect of our society today we see the workings of the tension between individual freedom and the demands of authority. Here is the story of the people that brought this idea to our shores: the Puritans. Edmund Morgan ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.27! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Benjamin Franklin more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan In this biography of the Founding Father, Morgan looks at Ben Franklin's life and his many accomplishments in both politics and in science. He digs deeper to reveal the conflicts between Franklin's vision of what he wanted America to be and the historic collaborations that shaped the new country. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 more books like this by Edmund S Morgan In one remarkable quarter-century, thirteen quarrelsome colonies were transformed into a nation. Edmund S. Morgan's classic account of the Revolutionary period shows how the challenge of British taxation started the Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom and eventually led to the Revolution. Morgan ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.45! \| first editions \| SVS
4	American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan "If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in his searching study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Mr. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.70! \| first editions
5	American Slavery, American Freedom more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan "IF IT IS POSSIBLE to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin, " writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.63! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The National Experience: A History of the United States more books like this by John Morton Blum A history of the United States with an emphasis on public policy. Includes maps, photos, charts, and suggestions for further reading. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $60.08! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan Dividing his work into 24 essays with sections on "New Englanders," "Southerners," and "Revolutionaries," Morgan examines the history of the American colonies from the arrival of the first settlers in 1607 to the radical changes brought forth by the American Revolution. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.94! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Puritan Family more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan (Editor) 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 would be according to God's laws. This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Stamp ACT Crisis: Prologue to Revolution more books like this by Edmund S Morgan, Helen M Morgan The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, provoked an immediate and violent response. "The Stamp Act Crisis," originally published by UNC Press in 1953, identifies the issues that caused the confrontation and explores the ways in which the conflict was a prelude to the American Revolution. see all copies from $2.90! new only from $19.50! \| first editions
10	Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America more books like this by Edmund S. Morgan see all copies from $3.64! new only from $10.21! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Visible Saints more books like this by Edmund S Morgan see all copies from $6.95! new only from $13.48! \| SVS
12	Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan see all copies from $2.25! new only from $24.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It more books like this by Richard Rosenfeld, Professor Edmund S Morgan (Introduction by) The absorbing chronicle of America's first oppositionist newspaper from 1790 through 1800, "American Aurora" "tells the story of the first government assault on free speech, immigrant communities, religious minorities, and the political left" ("The Nation"). see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.87! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	American Aurora: The Supressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It more books like this by Richard Rosenfeld, Professor Edmund S Morgan (Foreword by) This dramatic epic traces the incendiary history of the young American nation, and chronicles the birth and near-death of civil liberties in the 1790s. Revisionist, daring, and brilliantly conceived, this is a work of enormous power that indisputably rewrites the early history of our nation. Photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan Americans did not at first cherish the idea of political severance from their mother country. In just a few years, however, they came to desire independence above all else. What brought about this change of feeling and how did it affect the lives of their citizens? To answer these questions, Edmund S. Morgan looks at three men who may fairly be ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $6.29!
16 view cover	Roger Williams; the church and the state more books like this by Edmund Sears Morgan An illuminating portrait of the nation's earliest--and most passionate--advocate for the total separation of church and state. A classic of its kind, Edmund S. Morgan's Roger Williams skillfully depicts the intellectual life of the man who, after his expulsion in 1635 from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded what would become Rhode Island. As ... see all copies from $5.11! new only from $9.01!
17 view cover	The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop: The Story of John Winthrop more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan see all copies from $4.35! new only from $10.99! \| first editions
18 view cover	Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp ACT Crisis, 1764-1766 more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan (Editor) This comprehensive documentary source book provides a case-study approach to American colonial history and serves as a problems source book on the key event in Anglo-American relations in the 1760s. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.86! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Challenge of the American Revolution more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan This volume presents an eminent historian's progress over thirty years in trying to understand the American Revolution. Here is the historian at his best---beginning with the assumption that things are not always as they appear to be, delighting in the discovery of the previously unknown, and offering new interpretations with style, wit, and the ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $17.72! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Genius of George Washington more books like this by Edmund S Morgan 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 military and political power. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.80! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington more books like this by Edmund S Morgan see all copies from $2.95! new only from $72.01!
22 view cover	Puritan Political Ideas, 1558-1794 more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan see all copies from $4.95! new only from $38.72! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795 more books like this by Edmund S Morgan see all copies from $21.41! new only from $24.54! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Puritan family; religion & domestic relations in seventeenth-century New England more books like this by Edmund Sears Morgan 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 would be according to God's laws. This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others. see all copies from $2.79! first editions
25 view cover	Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin more books like this by Benjamin Franklin, Professor Edmund S Morgan (Editor) This engaging book reveals Benjamin Franklin's human side--his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy and the people of the United States. see all copies from $7.59! new only from $7.70! \| first editions \| SVS

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