Edmund S. Morgan
One of America’s most influential historians died this week. Jill Lepore salutes Edmund Morgan.
Jill Lepore is the Kemper Professor of American History at Harvard University, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of the forthcoming Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, among many other books.
When historian Jill Lepore stumbled on a letter from John Adams about the lies of American history, it brought to mind her own youthful brush with the Revolutionary spirit.