Edward P. Morgan

Biography

Edward (Ted) Morgan is emeritus distinguished university professor at Lehigh University, having served at the University from 1976 through 2016. He grew up in South Hadley, Massachusetts and received a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and a doctorate from Brandeis University. He is the author of What Really Happened in the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy (University Press of Kansas), The 60s Experience: Hard Lessons about Modern America (Temple University Press), Inequality in Classroom Learning (Praeger), and numerous articles about democracy, social movements, propaganda, and educational politics & policy in the United States. He is the 2012 recipient of Lehigh’s prestigious Hillman Faculty Award and the 1992 recipient of the Lindback distinguished teaching award.