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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... House , the first major social settlement in America . Located in the poorest immigrant ghetto of Chicago , Hull - House combined school , daycare and community center , gymnasium , soup kitchen , and library . Addams was the ...
... house of Groton , set on more than five hundred acres in the rolling , rural Suffolk hills and meadows and " quiet horizons " eighty miles from London at the heart of East Anglia . The only son of lawyer - farmer Adam Winthrop ( the ...
... houses of worship , to which Winthrop mildly countered that " the corruption of a thing doth not nullify the thing . " 15 That said , as a sensitive Puritan , John Winthrop was mindful of the buildup of social prejudice against the ...
... house and lands , a drawn- out process that kept Margaret from joining him on the trip . To soften the pain of a two - year - long separation , husband and wife agreed that every Monday and Friday evening between five and six o'clock ...
... house . Let your light so shine before men , that they may see your good works , and glorify your Fa- ther which is in heaven . " Winthrop played thus upon the theme : " ... [ M ] en shall say of succeed- ing plantations : the Lord make ...
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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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