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  2. American Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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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. [1]

  3. A. Owen Aldridge - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Paine's American Ideology. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 9780874132601. —— (1986). The Re-emergence of World Literature: a Study of Asia and the West. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 9780874132779. —— (1993). The Dragon and the Eagle: the Presence of China in the American Enlightenment. Wayne State University Press.

  4. Frank Shuffelton - Wikipedia

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    Frank Shuffelton (died March 4, 2010) was an American scholar of American literature, who taught at the University of Rochester from 1969 to his retirement in 2007. His expertise was the American Enlightenment; he published a monograph on Thomas Hooker and bibliographical books on Thomas Jefferson, whose Notes on the State of Virginia he edited.

  5. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    It is a new oral poetry originating in the 1980s in Austin, Texas, using the speaking voice and other theatrical elements. Practitioners write for the speaking voice instead of writing poetry for the silent printed page. The major figure is American Hedwig Gorski who began broadcasting live radio poetry with East of Eden Band during the early ...

  6. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    During his entire adult life Franklin saved his correspondence, documents and other writings, which today include some 30,000 extant items. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin is a collaborative effort by a team of scholars at Yale University, American Philosophical Society and others who have searched, collected, edited, and published the numerous letters from and to Benjamin Franklin, and other ...

  7. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    Part One of the Autobiography is addressed to Franklin's son William, at that time (1771) Royal Governor of New Jersey.While in England at the estate of the Bishop of St Asaph in Twyford, the 65-year-old Franklin begins by describing his parents and grandparents, recounting his childhood, expressing his fondness for reading, and narrating his apprenticeship to his brother James Franklin, a ...

  8. American philosophy - Wikipedia

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    American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevertheless be seen as both reflecting and shaping collective American identity over the history of the nation". [1]

  9. The New England Primer - Wikipedia

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    American Reading Instruction. International Reading Association. ISBN 978-0-87207-348-7. OCLC 49976815. (with prologue by Richard D. Robinson, epilogue by Norman A.Stahl, and history of reading since 1967 by P. David Pearson) Watters, David H. (December 1985). "'I Spake as a Child': Authority, Metaphor and the New England Primer".