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The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published on 22 April 1899.Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.
The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America Archived August 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine HarperOne (2008) ISBN 978-0-06-055829-1. Rediscovering Values: On Main Street, Wall Street, and Your Street, Howard Books (2010) ISBN 978-1-4391-8312-0.
The Second Great Awakening (sometimes known simply as "the Great Awakening") was a religious revival that occurred in the United States beginning in the late eighteenth century and lasting until the middle of the nineteenth century. While it occurred in all parts of the United States, it was especially strong in the Northeast and the Midwest. [15]
Hannah Heaton was a New England woman known for chronicling in a diary [2] her experiences during the Great Awakening in the northern American royal colonies. [3] [4]
[6] Samuel Davies was one of the major contributors to the Great Awakening, a series of religious revivals which eventually caused America to break away from the Church of England. [1] Davies' rhetorical gifts were renowned, and among the many people influenced by him was the orator Patrick Henry. Henry was taken to listen to many of Davies ...
Carolyn Krause brings us a review of the presentation Dennis Aslinger, great-grandson of John Hendrix, made to about 80 people at the Oak Ridge History Museum on May 9. The meeting was the Oak ...
Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America is a 2017 book about the history of same-sex marriage in the United States by Nathaniel Frank. It was published by Belknap Press , an imprint of Harvard University Press .
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