and the puritan movement has started to fade away. historians e debate about just how much puritanism is really declining. some of this may just be taught because you know that pastors especially but lots of christians will talk about, oh, you know, our founders were much more committed than we are. i don't know if you've ever heard that in a church service or something. but, you know, it used to be so much better, but now we've fallen away. that's a very common rhetorical movement you get in churches, and you started to see that in the puritan churches in the late 1600s, early 1700s, and it breeds a type of sermon, a characteristic type of new england sermon that you get in this period that historians call the jeremiahad. if you know your bible, that's from jeremiah who was a very gloomy kind of prophet. and he was the sort of prophet that said to israel you've fallen away from god, you need to straighten up or else judgment is coming. and that kind of sermon became very common in new england too starting in the, say, 1670s, 1680, ea

and the puritan movement has started to fade away, so now, historians debate about just how much puritanism is really declining. some of this may just be taught, because, you know that pastors, especially, but lots of christians will talking about, oh, you know, our founders were much more committed than we are, right? i don't know if you've ever heard that in a church service or something, but it used to be so much better, but now we've fallen away. and that's a very common rhetorical move, that you would get in churches, and you started to see that in the new england churches, too, in the late 16 hundreds, the early 1700s. and it even breeds a type of sermon, it characteristic kind of new england sermon instead you get in this period, that historians call, the jeremiad's. the jeremiad's. now, if you know your bible well, you will hear a name, and that's from jeremiah, who was a very gloomy gloomy kind of profit. and he was a sort of profit that said to israel, you've fallen away from god, you need to straighten up, or else judgment is coming. and that kind of sermon became very common in

these kinds of colonies were founded his puritan colonies and puritanism by the early 1700's is in decline. of course now 70 or 80 years past by the time of the founding and the puritan movement has started to fade away. historians debate about just how much puritanism isll really declining. some of this may just be taught because you know that pastors especially a lot of christians will talk about things -- our founders were much more committed than we are an outgrowth you've ever heard that but it used to be so much better but now we have fallen away. that's a very common retort and he started to see that in the new england churches to and the late 1600's,n early 1700's and t is secure tourister new england sermon that you get in this period that this called the jeremiads. if you know your bible well enough you hear name and that's from jeremiah, who was a very gloomy kind of profit and he was the sort of profit but said israel you have fallen away from god. you need to straighten up or judgment is coming. that kind of sermon became very common in new b england starting in the 1670s and

not just exclusively puritan. you may remember that we talked it.ut then in the 1690s, england started requiring massachusetts toto tolerate other kinds of f protestants. not just puritans but you have to tolerate quakers and baptists and other kinds of protestant groups. there are some intriguing pieces of evidence about rising, at least access l to sort of i immorality and so forth. in the 1680s, it looks like boston probably gets its first brothel. the b characteristic of colonia cities of london and so forth at the titime. butot puritan boston gets a brothel?l?io a house of prostitution? this is horrifying to a lot of people. occasionally, dancing classes being offered in boston in this era. so the puritans were not keen on dancing,g, especially between unmarried couples. so m there are actually some pieces off evidence that could you look at and say, well, maybe this is becoming a more diverse nonpuritan kind ofad society. maybe there is something there to that jeremiad kind of thing. probably the most horrif

and the indelible imprint of his childhood puritanism. the intense piety and faith of his parents acted as a tether. restraining franklin's skepticism. as a teenager, it's true, he abandoned his parents' puritan beliefs. but that same, traditional faith kept him from getting too far away. he would stretch his moral and doctrinal tether to the breaking point. by the end of a youthful sojourn he made, when he returned to philadelphia, he resolved to conform more closely to his parents' ethical code. and he steered away from extreme deism. could he craft a christianity centered on virtue, rather than traditional doctrine? and avoid alienating his parents, at the same time? more importantly, could he convince the evangelical figures in his life? most importantly, his sister jane and the revivalist, george whitfield, that all was well with his soul. he would have more success in time convincing his sister than convincing george whitfield. um, when he ran away from boston as a teenager. when he ran away to boston -- from boston to philadelphia,

the son of boston puritans had come a long way to get to that philadelphia meeting hall. in late spring of 1787, he exchanged letters with his beloved sister, jane mecom, who was an evangelical christian. the sibling who maintained the longest correspondence with and the deepest influence on franklin. they reminisced about their humble beginnings as the children of a candlemaker. mecon had remained a person of humble means and relative anonymity while her brother's fame skyrocketed. ben told her that the course of his life filled him with wonder and fills me with humble thankfulness to that divine being who has graciously conducted my steps and prospered me in this strange land to a rationally have expected and can by no means conceive myself to have merited. i beg the continuance of his favor." chronic sickness made it difficult for franklin to stand and speak at the convention, but he did offer occasional comments to seeking to steer the delegates toward a successful conclusion, but early on, he also made a substantive speech arguing against paying a salary to the presi

in 1560 the first edition of this text english puritans fled from england to geneva. while they were there because they were under protestant persecution, they produced what is known as the geneva bible because it was translated there. this is the very first english bible that would use the hebrew and the greek in its translation. it's also the first english bible to contain what is known as the typeset that we are familiar with in the newspaper as well today. before you had this medieval gothic text. and now you have the more friendly, easier text to look upon. it's also the first bible with study notes. and the study notes is what makes this bible so controversial. for instance, in the book of daniel when daniel refuses to bow down and worship the king, the notes say that he did write in the eyes of god because he obeyed the law of god over the law of man. so, if you're a monarchy or if you're the papacy at the time, you now have a book that contradicts your authority. so it wasn't a very influential book when it came to the monarchy and to the church at that time p

those transgressions did not taint the puritan of his soul. the canterbury church had no grounds on which to excommunicate. souls were spiritually perfect, incapable of seeing the failings of their mortal bodies. the early 18th and 19th century. there's one example maritime canada were interestingly enough hail and towns in southeastern connecticut during the nail 70s two decades later, perfectionist ideas surfaced alongside controversy over marriage. in cornwallis and marriage is being invalid in the president of the local presbyterian clergy which you can see the portrait here to live apart from her own converted husband. so it is much assume for her to have children by him as by any other man. other than preachers in nova scotia i the possibility of getting drunk certain many acts of murder and adultery. the bodies of the saints not convict souls were capable of sin. a believer is like a nut firm into the net explain the prominent preacher. they're dirty the shell but not the colonel. administer miller. jeremy 17 he moved his family to rich

the puritans were not only immigrated to the new world but also scholars. translate from the hebrew also from the greek would present us with the book of psalms put into psalm. the next book beside that is really, really interesting. this is from nathaniel morton the nephew of william bradford, the second lieutenant governor of plymouth. using william bradford's work on the plymouth plantation, he gave us the new england memorials. one of the first history books print in america. but within that, he included the actual mayflower compact as william bradford presented it in his notes, manuscripts of the plymouth plantation. king james bible. we know where that bible is located. and we also know that they also brought another bible which is known as the geneva bible. what's really powerful about this exhibit is this geneva bible actually belonged to william bradford, who was the second lieutenant governor of plymouth, but this bible is kind of interesting in its very controversial because of what it is. in 1560 the first edition of this text english puritans f

actually, the puritans william brad, foot -- bradford, with drop. they were not immigrants the neural, that they were scholars. translated from the hebrew, also from the greek, they would present us with what is known as the -- the book put in the song. the next book that is beside that is really, really interesting. this one is from nathanael morton. he was the nephew of william bradford, he was the second lieutenant governor of plymouth. using william bradford's worth of plymouth plantation, he gave it what is known as new england's memorials. this is one of the very first history books printed in america. but within that, he included the actual mayflower compact as william bradford presented in his notes, manuscripts from the plymouth plantation. asked >> the question often is is what's bible did they bring over on the mayflower with them? and we know for a fact that the captain of the mayflower had a king james bible. we know where that bible is located. we also know that they brought another bible which is known as the geneva bible. and what is

ministers to be sure regularly employed marital metaphors in their sermons the puritans believe that both men and women possessed feminine souls that yearn to be espoused to christ. and yet ministers also understood that the consummation of this metaphorical spiritual union would not take place until christ's return and the day of judgment. more confident of their instantaneous conversion experiences whitfield's young converts of the 1740s by contrast frequently asserted that the holy spirit literally took possession and ravished their once sinful bodies. for the people called new lights the bridegroom had finally arrived to make them direct partakers of his love and the imminent prospect of consummating this heavenly union seductively invited sexually charged descriptions of their conversion experiences. a number of prominently people who wrote about their according experiences during the peak months of the whitfield, indiana revivals. spoke of seeking potential spouses who had been born again. likewise a few of the most radical itiner creatures of the period including leading figur

i'm going to stay with the puritans but take us back to the us capital . this time to statuary hall and talk about the man on the right who is one of the few actually colonial figures celebrated in statuary hall in the us capital that is the figure of a pueblo indian and he is shown holding a knotted rope there and those are integral to the story i'm going to tell you about why these celebrated to this day. to put it in context in 1630 john winthrop whose portrait you see on the left came to massachusetts, to new england in the first wave has been called the great migration. the sort of wave of puritan settlement, the 1620 pilgrims episode was a much smaller one but under john winthrop, puritans had a large mass migration to new england spreading out throughout the land and winthrop is famous for 1630 coming over to massachusetts and talking about america, they're settling america being as a city upon a hill for the world to which is that rhetoric of a city on the hill is a bit of american mythology that has persisted often referenced by us presidents, ron

a number of you mentioned pilgrims and mentioned plymouth and puritans in new england in your response about what you think and they think this is something that's worth diving into. so we start to see and emerging theme in terms of monuments of claudio past. some are not tagged as such are seen as important until the mid-18th century. it's not like in 1620 when pilgrims landed in plymouth. the car of the year into the rocks. this is something that was done later. it wasn't until the 18th century that a descendent pointed to the rock as important because of the danger of new construction so this is again one of these moments where much after-the-fact people decided to commemorate and celebrate the past. one of the reasons that plymouth rock is important in our national inception of who we were as people is something we like to celebrate about the past and the past is full of dreadful and depressing things that happened but it's also a place where people strive to make their world that are and to make themselves better and leave in some cases beautiful things behind. i think one of the

his mother was a direct descendent of the puritans. anthony fought in the civil war. his brother samuel, died in service, and he enlisted afterwards. he appears from the civil war diaries to have masturbated obsessively and then felt obsessively guilty about it. we think that some of his animus towards obscenity came from the fact that during the civil war, men were passing around books in pictures and this kind of thing because it'd become cheaper to mail those kinds of materials. he moved to new york around 1867-1868 like many young veterans and you want to become a dry goods salesman. because he was interacting a lot with other men his age were visiting prostitutes and sporting culture, supporting life which included boxing, billiards, pretty waiter girl saloons, bars, the wonderful book lowlife by looks to want it to all of this. he became very bothered by the men's pursuit of advice. through a series of kind a small world coincidences he was able to befriend the silence of the ymca which is found in this country in 1852, and through the connections that he made t

it is particularly puritan, even places like virginia is more cavalier new england is more a puritan mounted. if you are a protestant, you believe you have to readd the bible. and americans to read their bible some as late as andy jackson and i have good words to say about andrew jackson indivisible union and lincoln was going to stand on jackson's shoulders and resisting the session. andy jackson self taught. how is he self-taught? he goes to church every sunday and listens to people preach from the gospel, from the bible. it is a bible reading, bible discussing culture. very famously someone like jonathan edwards publishes at the hands of an angry god. even 1760 remarkable literacy rates. by 1790, america has more newspapers and newspaper readers per capita than any country in the world including britain. and certain technological development's are going to facilitate that. when you get for example the erie canal you can actually now go all the way around america. just like you can go all the way around britain. you can go from chicago, across the great lakes to buffalo, cross the

his mother was direct descendant of the puritans and anthony fought in the civil war. his brother samuel died in service and he enlisted afterwards and he appears from his civil war diaries to have masterbaited and the men were passing around books and pictures and this kind of thing because it had become cheaper for those kinds of materials. he moved to new york 1867 and he wanted to become a dry good salesman and interacting with a lot of men his age who were visiting prostitutes and pursuing what was called boarding life, boxing billiard, saloons, bars, wonderful book low life gets all of this. he became bothered and through small coincidences he was able to be friend of the ymca which was founded in this country in 1852 and through the connections with those guys, samuel, a name you might know from your tooth paste. and got this law passed that became known as the combstock law even though it has a much longer and more complicated name. so anthony combstock was iconic figure in the sense that he had the classic civil war era biography which was young, religious, ch

start, in elementary schools, for example, why not make more of an effort to tell stories alongside puritans? you don't necessarily have to dive straight into the brutal ugliness of colonial history and its most terrifying iterations in order to tell a more inclusive history. i personally think that's one way to do it. i'd be interested actually and maybe we can pick this up next week to discuss how you all would do this, how you would -- how and whether this course has changed how the way you would choose to talk about the history of thanksgiving with your family, for example. i think these are important questions and i think how and why we choose to include thinkss in our history is vitally important regardless of the level of education you are talking but i think a lot of americans emerge from our system of education due to a variety of factors, everything from curriculum standards to teaching to test to the college you go and the classes you take. that's why so many of us still think about history as it's presented through these historical interpretations, through historical sites, monum

and you see parallels between isaiah sch and this puritan true origin. well, they use a lot of the same language. i mean, in the scale of killing someone say isn't the same, but what is it not? i mean, we're talking about folks who in the mystic massacre, you know, surround a wooden village in, in what's now connecticut. right. where julia roberts movie took place, right? mystic pizza and you know, they burn alive day and that, and shoot taking no quarter women, children, old people, most of the warriors i've kind of gotten away. this is just one incident. and the language that they use, i mean ronald reagan and every politician says, right, whether it's hillary clinton or, or brock obama. they love this city on a hill speech. it's lashawn winthrop, right? us, you know, on the boat off shore. he says, we shall be as a city upon a hill. well, no one ever mentions what he says after that in the speech. he basically says that we're a new israel and that with the strength, i'm paraphrasing with the strength of god behind us. we should be able to smote 10 of

it was a financial decision less than a puritanical religious reason. they'd drink alcohol themselves and would have wine in different situations. but it cost a lot because the president themselves had to pay that tab. it gets back to the point we are making about him not going because he does not have enough money to go to washington. that does seemed like you are reminded at cost money to go and do public service. and unfortunately often times only the wealthy are able to afford its, to do that work. one of the things i wanted to ask you about involved president carter's rhetorical style. for any leader, how they communicate is an enormously important to their leadership forgive interesting quote from president carter's son jack in which he said his father is not an orator. but when he speaks with the moral intensity he makes you believe it. and i think that was very true of his malaise his speech. and probably his labbe speech which are so extraordinary you talk about in the book. what did you learn about in your research about president carter's rhe

moses, which had exerted significant influence on american law going all the way back to the first puritan commonwealths in the 17th century and continuing up to their own time. this book also records god's dealings with a chosen nation, especially in establishing the political and legal institutions necessary to govern a nation. yes, there are texts on government and the responsibilities of citizenship that we find in the new testament, but what's particularly appealing, i think, in the accounts of deuteronomy is americans in the wake of independence, in the aftermath of this war, they have to build a new government. and they see in the history of israel, having departed from egypt, the same exercise taking place, the building of a new nation with its various political institutions. and this has a particularly attraction to americans in the founding era who see themselves engaged in a similar project. now, to be sure, they're drawn to many other texts. yes, deuteronomy is particularly appealing, but they're also going to look to texts like romans xiii, which speaks of the obligations to b

well as male partly because america is a protestant culture i believe especially in new england as a puritan but even in a place like virginia with english dissenters but if you are protestant you believe you have to read the bible and americans do read their bible and even someone like andy jackson i have good words about andrew jackson he believes about the indivisible union and standing on his shoulders to resist succession but jackson is that he goes to churchch every sunday and listens to people preach in the pulpit it is a bible reading, bible discussing culture someone like jonathan edwards publishes a sermon so even in 1760 remarkable literacy rates by 1790 america has more newspapers and readers per capita than any country in the world including britain. certain technological developments will facilitate that so when you have the air he can now now you can go all the way around america just like you to go all the way around britain from chicago, across the great lakes, buffalo, erie canal, hudson and new york the coast to new orleans and of the mississippi to chicago. so now letters

. >> is there something american or puritan referring to bodies or bodily functions? >> i'm tempted to say so. particularly bourgeois culture in the early 1800s got really, really self-conscious but i have a hard time saying that wouldn't be the case with equivalent people overall on the other side of the pond but there's something about what happens here. restroom is here. the dark meat, white meat. it'st not that dark. it was considered improper to refer to legs, thighs, breasts and limbs because supposed others ladies present. why that would be more the case here may be because of an insecurity that americans had in relation to europe so may be maybepeople on the other side oe pond could let their hair down more. that needs to be studied more but there is an american uptight for the vulgarity we are generally associated with. >> the library commissioned and visited the library in 1843. >> his name was bronson and i think it was his father in that part of the story where they just discreetly changed it because they didn't want to sound like they were being named aft

from the puritan fathers to the founding fathers, americans look to the guiding principles of political, order civil authority, civic virtue, responsible citizenship, and other concepts. that's essential to the formation of a well ordered polity. and one of the most important, but least studied of the sources of influence on our political culture and our constitutional tradition is the bible. the constitution contains many features and cotton and design, the mueller to a bible reading people. we cannot understand adequately the constitutional tradition, or the historic events that produced our great political experiment and political self government without referencing the bible. let me urge you to read the constitution, study the american founding principles, and to better understand the constitution, and the founding project. read your bible, thank you. [applause] as part of a symposium hostility by the museum of the bible in washington d.c.. our third session of today is the bible in the american

he explains how the salem witch trials and the decline of puritanism that to an era of traveling preachers and an emphasis on evangelism. his class is about 70 minutes. >> we'ven

. >> is everything a puritan referring to bodily functions? >> i would say so. in the early 1800s got really self-conscious. i have a hard time seeing that would not have also been the case on the other side of the pond. there is something about what happens here. restroom is here, dark meat, white meats, wise a call that? it's not that dark really. it's improper to refer to legs, thighs, breasts, limbs as there could be ladies present. why that would be more the case may be because of an insecurity that americans had in relationship to europe. maybe people on the other side of the pond could let their hair down ae little more. that is something that needs more.studied there is an american uptight for all the vulgarity we are generally associated with. >> you mentioned this on your recent podcast. the library recently commissioned ant bust, actually visited our library. you mentioned their name was impacted by the evolution of a certain word. can you talk about that? >> his name was bronson alcock. i think it was his father in that part of the story. they discre

think this is so important because when i was researching, but i researched, looking into colonialism puritanism so often the christianizing force, the taking of the savages and making them noble, that is a very common ideology throughout the 17th and 18th and 19th century to justify their systematic campaign of healings. stealing and murder. rather than looking at the nations that are the criminals, they actually make the objects affect criminology into criminals themselves. that's the ultimate gas line we are speaking about. what i think is hard what we said and what we are agreeing on and documented in your book those hearing are saying if you are white, you feel that listening to this, you feel that reading this, i want to deal with that and i've also heard people of color, community members saying things like that was a long time ago. i've also seen within the african-american community for you have immigrants saying about slaves well, i don't know what your problem is and rather than looking at the systematic roots as to why you have less capitol to start out with, how could you possibly g

. >> undergirding all these agreements in the mayflower compact, the puritan separatists, is the concept of covenant. sometimes we miss the full ramifications of what that meant to them. from a reformers and point of view, god is absolutely sovereign. god is omnipotent, omniscient. god makes covenants with humans, which is a remarkable statement of love that god puts forth. they read the bible as a series of interlocking covenants and their lives are all based on covenants, cabinets for churches, for cities, marriage, family. this concept of covenant, so influential overall, they take from scripture, i think in the back of their minds and sometimes at the very front of their thoughts as they understand these things and negotiations of who they are, in the new world, as they call it. >> thank you. doctor bird, members of our audience would like to hear more details about the database and what you are gathering and cataloguing. >> this is really interesting. the database for the revolutionary war project i basically designed using a program called microsoft access, which is a system in mic

host: is there anything american or puritan referring to the body or bodily function? >> i would say so. particularly in this country in the early 18 hundreds they got really self-conscious have a hard time to say that would be the case with the equivalent people over on the other side of the pond. there something what happens here. restroom is here dark meat or white meat why is it called back? because it was improper to refer to legs and breast because ladies were present we be here because of the insecurity americans had in relation to europe so people on the other side of the pond can letdown their hair that needs to be studied more. but there is the uptight for all of the vulgarity. >> you mention this on your recent podcast but talk about louisa may alcott anti- visit in 1843 you mentioned their last name was impacted by the mention of a certain word crack. >> his name was bronson alcott. i think actually was his father at that part of the story but we changed it to alcott because they didn't want to sound like they were being named after penis we don't call her

they are puritan. there critical of all other faiths of islam, whatever muslim speaks differently in them as a major target. they target shias and other muslims. they have called them a close enemy, as opposed to a distant enemy which would be the west for america. in terms of their fighters, they don't have a lot of fighters i afghanistan. it was a branch of isis which emerged most of the regional branch that emerged in afghanistan because of some of the connections that existed historically. the arab world -- spring to the eastern part of the country. some arab fighters, some foreign fighters, including arab fighters, when isis was disseminated in iraq and syria came there and are also local afghans who joined them because they felt more ideological alignments with them or they thought it was a good opportunity to join a group that was seen by many -- in terms of objectives, their very against other types of muslims who disagree with them. they have fought with taliban. they had many fights. they als