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The American Enlightenment was influenced by the 17th- and 18th-century Age of Enlightenment in Europe and distinctive American philosophy. According to James MacGregor Burns , the spirit of the American Enlightenment was to give Enlightenment ideals a practical, useful form in the life of the nation and its people.
In recent years, scholars have expanded the time span and global perspective of the Enlightenment by examining: (1) how European intellectuals did not work alone and other people helped spread and adapt Enlightenment ideas, (2) how Enlightenment ideas were "a response to cross-border interaction and global integration," and (3) how the ...
The End of American Innocence: A Study of the First Years of Our Own Time, 1912-1917 (New York: Knopf, 1959) The Enlightenment in America. Oxford University Press. 1976. ISBN 978-0-19-502367-1. Coming to Terms: A Study in Memory and History (University of California Press, 1987) The Divided Heart: Essays on Protestantism and the Enlightenment ...
People are looking for a new way to connect themselves to the larger story of America. That is the problem. We've felt adrift over the past 10 years, and we think that the way history has been presented over the past couple of decades has been more in terms of the little pieces and people are not as interested in the little pieces now.
The intellectual leaders of the American Revolution, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, were immersed in Enlightenment thought and believed the idea of progress meant that they could reorganize the political system to the benefit of the human condition; both for Americans and also, as Jefferson put it, for ...
During the Age of Enlightenment, humanistic values were reinforced by advances in science and technology, giving confidence to humans in their exploration of the world. By the early 20th century, organizations dedicated to humanism flourished in Europe and the United States, and have since expanded worldwide.
The Enlightenment and by extension the modern world never could have happened without it. It represented as big of an information revolution as the Internet does today. Image credits: SleepyConscience
Between 1994-2021 the percentage of people's public opinion of the British monarchy is 34%. Between the years of 2018-2021, the number of Britons who rated their monarchy as "not at all/abolish" rose by 11%. Young Britons have always had the lowest number of people who rate their monarchy as "high importance". [48]