The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 (The Chicago History of American Civilization)
Edward S. Morganis Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and past president of the Organization of American Historians. His many books includeThe Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England; The Gentle Puritan:  A Life of Ezra Stiles; The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop; American Slavery—American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia; The Challenge of the American Revolution; Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America;and, with Helen M. Morgan,The Stamp Act Crisis.