The American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold WarSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 1 apr 2007 - 272 pagina's Neil Baldwin, one of the most exciting intellectual historians, has written extensively about the great thinkers and innovators who have shaped our unique American identity. In THE AMERICAN REVELATION, he turns his energies to the unfolding story of how the American spirit developed over 400 years. |
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... Boston - raised , Harvard - educated Ralph Waldo Emer- son , the most eloquent practitioner of nineteenth - century American indi- vidualism . Trained for the clergy , as a young man he abandoned the conventions and restraints of the ...
... Boston was established . By the end of its first decade of life , the Massachusetts colony held fifteen thou- sand souls within " two days ' march " or " a fair day's sail " of each other.3 The he Puritan pioneer John Winthrop is known ...
... Boston , Lincolnshire . Cotton did not embark upon the maiden voyage to Massachusetts . Within two years , however , he was summoned to appear before the High Court of Commission in London be- cause of increasingly critical statements ...
... Boston Massacre in March 1770 , the burning of the British schooner Gaspee in Narragansett Bay off Rhode Island in the summer of 1772 , followed that fall by publication in Boston of The Votes and Proceedings , a systematic ac- count of ...
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E PLURIBUS UNUM Pierre Eugène Du Simitière 1776 | 43 |
SELFRELIANCE Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841 | 61 |
MANIFEST DESTINY John L OSullivan 1845 286 | 79 |
PROGRESS AND POVERTY Henry George 1879 | 99 |
THE SPHERE OF ACTION Jane Addams 1902 | 121 |
THE MELTINGPOT Israel Zangwill 1908 | 143 |
THE NEGRO IN OUR HISTORY | 163 |
THE MARSHALL PLAN George C Marshall 1947 | 183 |
A Sense of History | 205 |
Bibliography | 235 |
Illustration Acknowledgments and Permissions | 255 |
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