The Great Awakening Just before mid-century the country experienced its first foremost religious revival. The Great Awakening swept the world, as religious power pulsed between England, and the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. In ... "Word." It revitalized even as it separated churches. The followers of the Awakening and its evangelical force developed into the largest American Protestant denominations by the earliest decades of the nineteenth century. Opponents of the Awakening or those split by it, Quakers, Anglicans, and Congregationalists, were left behind. They, who were left b...

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... and intentions of the men in their lives. Pride and Prejudice paints a colorful picture of the pursuits of a family seeking wealth and love through marriage for their daughters in the nineteenth century....

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... and intentions of the men in their lives. Pride and Prejudice paints a colorful picture of the pursuits of a family seeking wealth and love through marriage for their daughters in the nineteenth century....

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The story of Cio-cio-san, the eternally faithful heroine, is one of the most wrenching (and well-known) in all of opera. A young geisha is so blinded by hope for a better life that she does not see the truth about the man she loves until it is too late. But look deeper, there is more to this story than we often see. The culture conflict between the East and West is just beneath the surface. In 1900, Japan was discovering the West, both the arrogance and the promise, for the first time. During that time, hundreds of Japanese women married American servicemen and immigrated to America. Countless...

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