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The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment (Harvard University Press, 1994) Twelve Greeks and Romans Who Changed the World (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003) The Battle for the American Mind: A Brief History of a Nation's Thought (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004)
The Founding Fathers of the United States, often simply referred to as the Founding Fathers or the Founders, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for ...
Before Paine's arrival in America, sixteen magazines had been founded in the colonies and ultimately failed, each featuring substantial content and reprints from England. In late 1774, Philadelphia printer Robert Aitken announced his plan to create what he called an "American Magazine" with content derived from the colonies. [ 32 ]
These men, from different backgrounds and regions of a fledgling nation, found a way to work out a constitution for delivery to France in the first 60 days that they were in York.
The Oxford Group was a Christian fellowship founded by American Christian missionary Frank Buchman.Buchman was a minister, originally Lutheran, then Evangelist, who had a conversion experience in 1908 in a chapel in Keswick, England, the revival center of the Higher Life movement.
In the 1930s, Jefferson was held in higher esteem; President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945) and New Deal Democrats celebrated his struggles for "the common man" and reclaimed him as their party's founder. Jefferson became a symbol of American democracy in the incipient Cold War, and the 1940s and 1950s saw the zenith of his popular reputation.
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals, is an encyclopedia of enslaved people’s experiences in the United States from the 17th century to the 19th century
The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and philosophical fervor in the thirteen American colonies in the 18th to 19th century, which led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States.