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Camp meetings were influential in various denominations, but they were most commonly used by churches descending from the Methodist tradition. Under the spiritual influences of the camp meeting tradition, many political figures were shaped and molded for local, state, and federal service. The camp me...
But many of the most influential figures, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John and Abigail Adams, Jefferson, James and Dolley Madison, and James Monroe, were believers of a different stripe. Resp...
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In the USSR, New Year’s Day is a popular holiday, and new elements are combined with old traditions in its observance—the holiday feast, the decorated and brightly lit fir tree, the exchanging of gifts, and the allegorical figures of Grandfather Frost and the Snow Maiden. I. N. GROZ...
Founding Fathers is especially relevant today, when differing interpretations of their intent are used in debates over current policies. The Founding Fathers is the ideal resource for anyone looking to hone his or her knowledge of the fascinating figures who wrote the first chapter of U.S. ...
The wide discrepancy in these figures is due to records missing or destroyed during the Revolutionary War and to the uneven quality of the remaining evidence of Masonic membership. The date and lodge of initiation constitute the best and clearest...
Jamestown was originally founded from a desire to gain wealth and to a lesser extent to convert Indigenous locals to Christianity. Jamestown went through several forms of government in its first decades, and by 1624, they used a representative assembly known as the House of Burgesses, the first...
These diverse productions not only reveal the continuing American fascination for the events and figures of 1776, and the political and commercial contests under way to define how they should be remembered, they also reflect our shared anxieties about the nation's past, present and future. ...
In fact, the Deist belief system, which includes an overarching deity but no interaction between that deity and human beings and values human experience and rationality, had a greater influence on America’s political philosophy than Christianity. The Native Americans Just Disappeared, Leaving An ...