great awakening

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great awakening

American dream, 1620-1765

4 stories in 1
2011
Lizzie and the redcoat: a 12-year-old helps an injured British soldier and finds herself persecuted for her good deed.

George Whitefield

clergyman and scholar
2001
Text and illustrations chronicle the life and achievements of eighteenth-century Methodist minister George Whitefield, whose involvement in the Great Awakening had a significant effect on the American colonies; also includes a glossary, chronology, colonial time line, and further reading list.

Jonathan Edwards

colonial religious leader
2001
Text and illustrations chronicle the life of eighteenth-century colonial minister Jonathan Edwards, who played a part in the Great Awakening, was president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University.

The Great Awakening, 1720-1760

religious revival rouses Americans' sense of individual liberties
1970
Discusses that period in American history when ministers such as Theodorus Frelinghuysen and Jonathan Edwards stirred in men a sense of worth and dignity which eventually produced the movement for independence.

Inventing the "great awakening"

1999
A study of the Great Awakening that swept New England in the eighteenth century, arguing that the religious revival was an invention of the colonists.
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