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Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: About American Authority Been Before Between Common Distrust England Ever Government Imperial Keeping More Over Powers Replaced Revolution Since Than Them Visible Worried

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The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

~Edmund Morgan

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The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Abundant America Another Been Both Colonial Deaths England Europe Every Form History Kind Literate Marriages Most New New England Other Point Preserve Record Records Societies Starting Starting Point Surviving Which

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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Accounts Benefit Bother Colonists Deaths Did Even Historical Law Make Marriages Mostly Nor Own Posterity Preoccupied Records Required Significance Southern Themselves Up Were Write

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So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.

~Edmund Morgan

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The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Additional Brand Brand New Congress Convention Define Effectively Enable Famous Government Instead Job Met National Needed New Philadelphia Powers Proposed

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It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.

~Edmund Morgan

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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.

~Edmund Morgan

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There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.

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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: January 17th, 1916

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