“The Indians, keeping to themselves, laughed at your superior methods and lived from the land more abundantly and with less labor than you did... And when your own people started deserting in order to live with them, it was too much... So you killed the Indians, tortured them, burned their villages, burned their cornfields... But you still did not grow much corn.” HistoryUnited StatesDestructionIndianCorn Author:Edmund Morgan
“Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.” MenWorldTryingChildrenAgeGrowsAnswersGrowing UpGoes OnDisciplineAskingCuriosityUniversityBlowManageFacultyInvitedHostilityMonarchyParentalYale Author:Edmund Morgan
“I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. . . . I always tried out my research ideas first in the classroom to get feedback from people who didn't have to listen to me if I didn't make it interesting.” PeopleIfsFirstsMadeIdeasInterestingAudienceTeachingResearchClassroomFeedbackCaptivesListen To Me Author:Edmund Morgan
“A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold.” ShouldRunningBloodColdHistorianDidactic Author:Edmund Morgan
“The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it.” MadeGovernmentHistorySeriousRevolutionExerciseResponseBritishTyrannyOppressionGrantedDenialEngagedColonyBritish Government Author:Edmund Morgan
