![]() ![]() Morgan won many of the major awards for historians, including the Bancroft Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize and, in 2006, a special Pulitzer Prize for his body of work. He wrote incisively about the conditions that led to the American Revolution, including the ethos of New England’s Puritans, the slave-owning culture of Virginia and the leadership of George Washington and other Founding Fathers.ĭr. Morgan, a longtime professor at Yale University, published more than 15 books on early American history during a career that spanned more than 60 years. He had pneumonia, his wife, Marie Morgan, told the Associated Press.ĭr. ![]() ![]() Morgan, a renowned historian whose books on Puritanism and Colonial life offered new perspectives on the nation’s founding, and who published a best-selling biography of Benjamin Franklin at age 86, died July 8 at a hospital in New Haven, Conn. ![]()
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