Edmund S. Morgan | The New York Review of Books

The American Who Spied for the British

Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy

by Thomas J. Schaeper

June 23, 2011 issue

How Black & White America Took Shape

The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

by Ira Berlin

The History of White People

by Nell Irvin Painter

April 8, 2010 issue

Jefferson’s Concubine

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

by Annette Gordon-Reed

October 9, 2008 issue

Jefferson & Betrayal

Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and a Tragic Betrayal of Freedom in the New Nation

by Gary B. Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers

by Richard S. Newman

June 26, 2008 issue

A Very Satisfied Survivor

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

by Linda Colley

September 27, 2007 issue

Our Shaky Beginnings

Captain John Smith: Writings with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America

by Captain John Smith

The Jamestown Project

by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Jamestown: The Buried Truth

by William M. Kelso

Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America

by Benjamin Woolley

A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and theBirth of America

by James Horn

Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown

by Helen C. Rountree

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April 26, 2007 issue

Inventing the ‘Liberal Republican’ Mind

Dangerous Nation

by Robert Kagan

November 16, 2006 issue

Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)

August 10, 2006 issue

Letter

Kem Knapp Sawyer

Barbara Epstein and ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’

September 21, 2006 issue

Henry Adams’s Theme

December 15, 2005 issue

History from Below

December 1, 2005 issue

The Unread Masterpiece

Henry Adams and the Making of America

by Garry Wills

November 17, 2005 issue

Letter

Garry Wills

Henry Adams’s Theme

December 15, 2005 issue

The Other Founders

The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America

by Gary B. Nash

September 22, 2005 issue

Letter

Staughton Lynd

History from Below

December 1, 2005 issue

Bill of Wrongs

Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism

by Geoffrey R. Stone

The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review

by Larry D. Kramer

March 10, 2005 issue

The Election and America’s Future

November 4, 2004 issue

The Whirlwind

Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow

September 23, 2004 issue

A New Kind of War

Washington's Crossing

by David Hackett Fischer

May 27, 2004 issue

‘Inventing a Nation’

March 11, 2004 issue

A Tract for the Times

Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson

by Gore Vidal

Washington, D.C.

by Gore Vidal

Burr

by Gore Vidal

Lincoln

by Gore Vidal

Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952–1972

by Gore Vidal

The Last Empire: Essays, 1992–2000

by Gore Vidal

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated

by Gore Vidal

Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta

by Gore Vidal

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December 18, 2003 issue

A Very Popular Penalty

The Death Penalty: An American History

by Stuart Banner

April 10, 2003 issue

Those Sexy Puritans

Sexual Revolution in Early America

by Richard Godbeer

June 27, 2002 issue