... the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and all the women who wrote history through the Civil War, wrote a form of providential history. They wanted to justify the ways of God to man and vice versa. A well known work in this tradition was William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation. He wrote this book in the 1630s and 1640s when he was the governor of ... their Puritan predecessors. They wrote history for their own satisfaction and to explain to the enlightened world the success of men like themselves: free, bold, intelligent, and ambitious. Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virg...

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