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The Great Awokening, Samuel C. Smith
The Great Awokening, Samuel C. Smith
Helm's School of Government Conference - American Revival: Citizenship & Virtue
The Great “Awokening”[1]
“Were you to see him in his most violent agitations, you would be apt to think that he was a madman just broke from his chains.”—Boston Evening Post on James Davenport, Aug. 2, 1742.
“I'm actually not a fan of the word 'woke.' I think the connotation of that means being socially aware, which is a beautiful thing to be. But it does not take into account being self-aware.”—India Arie
Most of my historical research has been on The First Great Awakening, an eighteenth-century revival movement that played a major role in shaping the …