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The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.

~Edmund Morgan

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Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Address American Apart Beginning Beliefs Carried Clue Complex Condition Dealing Give Human Human Condition Interest Intrinsic Itself Level Lives Meant Point Puritans Reached Scholarship System Them Where

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History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: About Always Best Deals Directly Does Episodes Find History Indirectly Most Much Often Our Ourselves Phenomena Predecessors Repulsive Revealing Tells Us

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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Appearance Between Detect Difference Difficult Eccentricity Encounter Evidence First Historical History Interpretation Large Makes Needed New Often Originality Radically Segment Studies Time

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Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: American American History Away Classic Cotton Explain Figures Him History Left Out Redeem Those Who

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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Anyone Behind Bible Book Commentary Cotton Every He His Historians Invitation Irresistible Issues Kind Leaves Life Lifetime More Most Own Publications Record Remains Than Titles Verse Which Who

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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Declaration Explaining Historical Independence Jefferson Possible Said Scholarship Think Thomas Thomas Jefferson Who Would

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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Alexander Behind Brilliant Career Constitutional Convention Everybody Father Founding Hamilton He His Just Knows Left Only Secretary States Sure Thirty Time Treasury Turned United United States Young

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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Academy America Assumption Assured Category Correct Did Early Everything Except Fit Historians History Intellectual Known Nearly Past Politics Pursuit Social Somehow Stuffed Them Together Turned Which Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: January 17th, 1916

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