These essays are reprinted with the kind permission of the following: “Dangerous Books,” The Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review; “The Unyielding Indian,” courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library of Brown University; “John Winthrop’s Vision,” Huntington Library Press; “The Puritans and Sex,” The New England Quarterly; “The Problems of a Puritan Heiress,” Colonial Society of Massachusetts; “The Case against Anne Hutchinson,” The New England Quarterly; “The Puritan’s Puritan: Michael Wigglesworth,” Colonial Society of Massachusetts; “The Contentious Quaker: William Penn,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society; “Ezra Stiles and Timothy Dwight,” Massachusetts Historical Society; “The End of Franklin’s Pragmatism,” Yale University Press; “The Founding Fathers’ Problem: Representation,” The Yale Review; “The Genius of Perry Miller,” courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.

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Morgan, Edmund S. (Edmund Sears), 1916–
American heroes: profiles of men and women who shaped early America / Edmund S. Morgan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 978-0-393-07426-0
1. United States—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775—Biography.
2. United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783—Biography.
3. United States—History—1783–1815—Biography. 4. Heroes—United States—Biography. I. Title.
E187.5.M67 2009
973.2—dc22

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