Modernity and the shaping of America

Modernity and the shaping of America

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Historian Jon Butler explains how aspects of modernity were already present and at work in colonial American life prior to 1776. (12 minutes)
An unwitting agent for the secularization of America

An unwitting agent for the secularization of America

Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and George Marsden explain how a prominent Christian Founding Father added momentum to the secularization of America