# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edmund-s-morgan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:08:05.785Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edmund-s-morgan"
name: "Edmund S. Morgan"
slug: "edmund-s-morgan"
description: "Edmund Sears Morgan was an American historian and an authority on early American history. He was the Sterling 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."
tagline: "American historian (1916-2013)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1916-01-17"
deathDate: "2013-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.768469333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Морган, Эдмунд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إدموند مورغان"
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    title: "ادموند مورجان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ادموند مورقان (تاریخچی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_S._Morgan"
    title: "Edmund S. Morgan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Morgan_(historian)"
    title: "Edmund Morgan (historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Morgan_(historiador)"
    title: "Edmund Morgan (historiador)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Morgan"
    title: "Edmund Morgan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_S._Morgan"
    title: "Edmund S. Morgan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Morgan_(historiador)"
    title: "Edmund Morgan (historiador)"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q365672"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump