Edmund Morgan Quotes


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.


Citations

Morgan, Edmund S. "In Love with Guns." The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2000.

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  • Born: January 17, 1916
  • Died: July 8, 2013
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Historian, Professor

Edmund Sears Morgan 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.